Reviewed by: The Scoop
Jade Franks arrives in tan activewear, Betty Boop lashes and a thick Scouse accent and detonates Cambridge.
This Fringe First winner, now in development with the team behind Adolescence, is poised to be Netflix’s next obsession. Think Fleabag meets Ricky Gervais via a culture-clash comedy in the tradition of Pygmalion and Educating Rita.
A working-class Liverpudlian secretly cleaning her own college to survive, Jade navigates the shark tank of inherited privilege. Latin quotations fly. Etiquette codes bristle. The myth of meritocracy crumbles.
At a moment when the UK, and much of the world, is scrutinising aristocracy, billionaires and invisible class barriers, this show could ignite like Guy Fawkes.
Yet beneath the politics lies something universal: leaving home. Trying to fit in. Deciding whether to assimilate or revolt.