Some Girls

Series two, episode one
The first series of sixth-form girlcom ‘Some Girls’ was savaged by some on the basis that it wasn’t ‘The Inbetweeners’. And fair enough: while the characters were as vacuous and clichéd as their E4 male counterparts, they were seldom as funny. But the opener to this second run suggests a mild reappraisal might be in order. The characterisation has scarcely moved on, but the performances are more confident and Bernadette Davis’s writing rings a little truer.

We rejoin the girls shortly after sensible Viva (Adelayo Adedayo, the best thing in it) finds a dead teacher in a store cupboard. Enter an eminently fanciable counsellor (Jonathan Bailey), rapidly courted by bimbo Amber and aggressively on-heat Holli. It’s no masterpiece, but its eagerness to please lends it a certain surreptitious charm.