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Does anyone see this as a kind of snapshot of contemporary life - like Ab Fab?  email this discussion to a friend?

myLot reputation of 82/100. Elspethr (294) 3 years ago

The novles mentioned the fads and news of the mid 1990s. HF wove in Feng Shui, the break up of Charles and Diana, the craze of Pride and Prejudice on BBC...

...and Jennifer Saunders does the same with Absolutely Faboulous - adopting Romanian babies in the early 199s, rebirthing, erosion of civil liberties

Although it reads like mindless chick lit, I think this - and Ab Fab - will be considered social history in the future. Does anyone agre?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 99/100. nancyrowina (2228)   3 years ago

I do actually agree, but I hope people watching it in say 50 years time realise it's a joke and we weren't really that extreme! Though the kind of stuff you see in ab fab does happen in the UK (us british women like a drink and some of us like a joint happy) We aren't as bad as eddie and Patsy! They are like an exaggerated pantomime version of it which is why it's so funny.
I also have always had a problem with Bridget Jones, as it's not very feminist is it? She has a great job and her own flat she bought herself, but all she can do is whine about not having a boyfriend! And she's SO desperate to get one too it's actually quite sad. She's not a good character to be held up as an icon like she has been. The original author of the book is quite angry about it herself, it was meant to be a joke we were supposed to laugh at how desperate she is. But as it turned out thousands of women want to be her! I read the author was angry they cast an American as Bridget when they made the movie too. I think a lot of people were Renee Zellweger is such a drippy actress too, it ruined it for me, I read the book but have never watched the film

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