![]() Thankfully, the series hasn’t turned into a cavalcade of swearing and nudity, although both halves of the opening double bill are, in one way or another, about sex.įirst we follow Marina (Megan Morgan), the best looking girl in school, who arrives every morning whipping her hair back and forth in slow motion, flanked by acolytes and warmed by the gaze of a hundred distantly lustful nerds. The savvy portrayal of culture clashes was still present, with characters from the Traveller community now in the mix alongside the white and British-Asian families, but older viewers had much less adult drama to chew on, and teenaged fans, at whom the show was now narrowly aimed, were presented with a less challenging, less dramatically varied, less entertaining version of what they had enjoyed before.įor the new, fifth season, Ackley Bridge has moved in the schedules again – whatever significance that has, now so many viewings will be via All 4 or on TikTok – to 10pm, raising the unwelcome prospect of a Hollyoaks Later-style festival of naughtiness. Archetypal firebrand … Laila Zaidi as Asma, with Hareet Deol as Hassan.
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