Whoever thought we would be doing this again? #BerenaDeservedBetter was born out of anger and rage at a storyline that promised representation and degenerated into… Well, we all saw the result. We thought Berena deserved better than it got. Looking back, we were probably quite bloody-minded about it. It mattered. It still does. We needed […]
#BerenaDeservedBetter
Broken representation and our broken hearts, for eternity
What is left to say, other than my heart is still broken? And a little bit of it even breaks for the loss of Serena – a double loss, the first one 14 months ago when she lost sight of the lion within, and the other on 21 January 2020, when she walked away physically. […]
Hope can be a dangerous thing
(This article contains spoilers for the first four books of the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard.) These past six months, I’ve been reading the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It began as a way to get closer to Berena without watching Holby City after the emotional turmoil of December – Catherine Russell plays […]
Berena, Holby City, and the role of the BBC Charter
The BBC occupies a unique position in the British cultural and entertainment landscape. More than three-quarters of the BBC’s funding is provided by the licence fee, currently costing £150.50 per premises for the vast majority of viewers with a colour television set. Anyone watching live (or recording) broadcast television on any channel, not just those […]
An Exercise in Catharsis Following the Berena Split
Looking back now it’s all so obvious. I was a square peg trying to fit into a round hole and couldn’t figure out why I felt so different, so ‘wrong’. Why didn’t I see it earlier? It’s so simple really, it’s because when I looked around I couldn’t see myself. Read the full text by […]
A Shipwreck Called #Berena
Getting under your skin is the hallmark of a good story. When that story seeps into the lives of people across borders and cultures, it’s an indication that there’s something monumental afoot. Something monumental is exactly what happened when two middle-aged women kissed in a British TV series. Read the full text by Payal Dhar […]