Miranda

Hello everyone!…. I’ve just been watching old episodes of Miranda. Season 3 has just been on TV and I couldn’t get enough of it. I’m not usually a fan of slapstick humour but there is something very relatable about Miranda. I missed season one and two and managed to find it online so started watching it this week! It’s so funny!

She plays a woman in her mid-thirties, single, facing pressure from her mother to marry and have children, has a long time crush on her friend Gary and a lovely friendship with her best friend Stevie. She lives alone and finds plenty of ways to keep herself busy and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. I feel that there is often a stigma attached to single women in their thirties but Miranda addresses this and draws on it and I feel that other single women like myself can relate to that. She talks about many issues that all normal women may have – not feeling like they are excelling in a career, not feeling attractive enough, having a poor sense of style, annoying friends, a pushy mother, hating the gym, the awkwardness of sex, romance and dating. As a girl who went to an all-girls school I can relate to this phenomenon!

She identifies herself as overweight, tall, awkward looking with a unique sense of humour and unsuccessful with men. The fact that she is open and honest about herself and is not vain or arrogant makes her so relatable and instantly likeable. She is just herself and we take her as she is – cringe worthy humour and all. We feel like she is the girl we secretly are inside or a friend we know in our own lives that we love.

I feel myself actually laughing out loud relentlessly at her jokes. Me and my best friend often quote Miranda and Stevie without even realising it! You should check it out, it’s very down to earth and a great watch!