My Mad Fat Diary

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Tom Bidwell, who was involved in the inception of the series two years ago, penned the vast majority of episodes. Saying that, series three was handled well by George Kay. The real life Rae Earl – on whose published diaries the show is based – also helped with six of the scripts, which adds an element of realism to the show. As it goes, Earl wrote my personal favourite episodes – It’s A Wonderful Rae parts one and two. To talk about their content would involve a few too many spoilers, though. My Mad Fat Diary is a British comedy-drama television series distributed by E4. It is adapted from Rae Earl's real-life diaries and subsequent book My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary. Tom Bidwell serves as the writer of the show.

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Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a 16-year-old who has spent four months in a psychiatric hospital. She struggles to hide her mental health and body image problems from her new friends and finds it hard to fit in. The show also received praise for its honest portrayal of mental health. Brian Semple of The Independent calls the show "surprisingly honest, funny and even moving account of what it’s like for a teenage girl to live with serious mental health problems, free of many of the clichés that often inform how mental illness is portrayed on TV," going on to say that Rae "has a mental illness, but it doesn't define her. It's just something that she has to deal with and try to manage on a daily basis, just like the one in ten young people in the UK who have a mental illness." Semple refers to My Mad Fat Diary as a "breath of fresh air and will do a lot to change the way young people think about mental health." [12] The mental health charity Mind honoured the show in their annual Media Awards in the Drama category in 2014 [13] and 2016. [14] [15] The year is 1989. Rachel "Rae" Earl has recently gotten out of the psychiatric ward. She was there, due to an undisclosed nervous breakdown and was forced to lie to get herself out. Rae overeats to find solace, goes to the pub with her best friend, Bethany, and is relatively boy-crazy.As an outsider looking in, My Mad Fat Diary never appeared to be selling what I wanted to buy. Bowing to the logic that anyone who zanily declares ‘I’m mad, me!’ in real life deserves to be given a wide berth, its big, fat gypsy-wedding-alike title didn’t appeal. It was a different time,” she explains. “If I’d said things then and shared things like I have now, I don’t think it would have been helpful. I don’t think I necessarily would have got the right care. If I’d revealed then just how poorly I was—I don’t know this for sure but I don’t think there would have been a level of appropriate care available.” It started off well, but then it just went slowly downhill. The same things seemed to happen over and over again and I found myself wondering when something was actually going to happen. All Rae seemed to complain about was her weight, not being able to get a boyfriend and her mum. It really irritated me that she kept complaining about not being able to get a boyfriend due to her weight, but then not doing anything about it.

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Davies, Sophie (21 January 2013). "Rae Earl on My Mad Fat Diary". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 23 January 2013. it wasnt bad, just not what i was expecting! The writing was good and funny for a 16 year olds diary! She is like her dad, Rooney says: funny but with her head screwed on. When her gran was dying, she left the set of Two Doors Down, a comedy pilot that’s now, years later, being made into a series for the BBC. “The director sat me down and said, ‘Will you regret this if you don’t go?’ I said yes. She said, ‘Well you have our blessing.’ They were great about it, but I’d have gone even if they hadn’t been. I’d have gone even if I was working with Meryl Streep. Nothing is more important than your family – ever.”

Virgin Money Giving Mind Media Awards 2016 Winners". Mind. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017 . Retrieved 5 October 2019. I'd originally started keeping a diary in the early 80s after seeing Ghostbusters, because I was so excited, but then I gave it up after about a year, and burnt it a few years later because it was full of nonsense. Then I started a diary in January 1989, principally because I needed to rant to somebody, I needed something I could confide in completely confidentially - despite hiding it in the most obvious place in the world, under my bed. I was convinced my mum would never think of looking there! I just needed something to talk to every night that was just mine. Is it brimming with plot twists and and astounding character development? No. It’s a diary. It’s not a novel. I recommend you all read this, but realize what it is – a diary. I mean, really, if you kept one in your adolescent years, you’ll probably laugh at how you sounded. Sharon Rooney flashes a brilliant smile and shouts a cheery hello while rifling through a clothes rail in a photographic studio. There is something immediately brighter, more luminous, about Rooney than the troubled teenager, Rae, she plays in E4’s cult comedy drama My Mad Fat Diary. Rae has problems with depression and is hung-up about her weight, but Rooney is comfortable in her own skin.

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Combine that with the societal male gaze, that shows women in such a plain sexual way that other women learn to perceive them (and themselves) as sexual things, but leads guys to think it's gay to look at other men in a casually sexual way, and you soon have teenage girls like Rae Earl. But it's hard to understand all that when you're 16, it's the late 80s, you live in a small town social justice is not part of anyone's vocabulary, not around you. I wish adult Rae had footnoted those bits. On the other hand, it may feel intrusive, preachy or like an after school special. All in all, this makes the book not something you'll necessarily want to give your teenaged lesbian daughter, however mad or fat they are otherwise. Epstein, Robert (20 January 2013). "TV Review: My Mad Fat Diary". The Independent. London . Retrieved 22 January 2013. There are two main problems for Rae during the series: the obstacles she faces because of her weight, and the obstacles she faces in her discovery of sex, love and friendship. In Episode 2, Rae has her first sexual experience when she kisses Archie. However, he later turns out to be gay and nothing romantic happens between them for the remainder of the series. Kirsty Armstrong as Lois (series 2–3), a sweet girl in Stacey's clique. She is revealed to be Archie's "girlfriend". After Rae "outs" Archie to Lois, she threatens to tell her friends that Archie is gay if he doesn't tell everyone first. Full of teenage logic, bad poetry and 80s nostalgia, Rae's frank and hilarious trip down memory lane stands out from the current surge of memoirs' ( The London Paper)Al comienzo se me hizo una lectura bastante pesada, no podía conectar con la historia ni con Rae, a pesar de que empatizaba totalmente con ella. Además las entradas son, en su mayoría, cortas, y yo soy más predilecta a los capítulos largos. Pero, en la mitad del libro, me empezó a interesar más la trama con la aparición de un nuevo interés romántico.

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Sophie Stanton as Principal Dixon (series 2–3), Rae’s firm but fair headteacher at college who gives her several ‘second chances’ and encourages her to go to Bristol University. The full list of winners at the Mind Media Awards 2014". Mind. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019 . Retrieved 5 October 2019. In the show, Rae has mental health issues, and struggles with her body image. Her biggest problem, as the show itself suggests, seems to be that she doesn’t like herself. When things go badly for her, she assumes they were meant to. When things go right, she’s sceptical to the point of ruining the good situation. The first episode of the third and final series attracted 548,000 viewers on E4, whilst the second episode attracted 537,000 viewers. The final episode of the series attracted 450,000 viewers. All viewing figures exclude those who watched on All 4 and on E4+1. Epstein, Robert (20 January 2013). "TV review: My Mad Fat Diary - Whoever said that fat was funny?". The Independent. London . Retrieved 26 June 2013.

Rae herself isn’t immune to this treatment at all, making her all the more engaging as a protagonist. In series two especially, you’ll be hiding behind a cushion unable to watch as often as you are cheering for joy. Again, realism plays a part here. Maintaining a friendship for years isn’t easy, especially when honesty is a difficult policy to maintain. Teenage Rae is hardly a seasoned writer, nor particularly sensitive to the plight of others. Indeed, she often comments on the beauty of other women, only to follow it up with, "I'm not a lesbian!!!" While it would've been easy for adult Rae Earl to edit those out, and it's definitely not a pretty sight, it rings true to life. It's not rare for straight teenage girls who perceive themselves as wholly unappealing to ment, to turn it on their head and begin wondering if maybe there's something about them that advertises that they're not into dudes. I really liked the diary layout of the book, but I found the writing basic and non descriptive sometimes. La verdad es que no me esperaba para nada que la historia cambiara tanto del libro a la serie. Ni siquiera aparecen los mismos personajes (realmente personas, ya que es el diario de la escritora) y algunos que se asemejan a los de la serie, tienen un nombre distinto.