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Give a comic character room to want the wrong thing, tell a self-serving story or make an embarrassing choice, and something interesting can happen. These women are funny through contradictions...

New independence rarely arrives with a reliable income or a clear idea of what happens next. These American, British, Irish and Korean shows follow university life and the messy years around it...

A missed shift, a bus fare or the cost of saying yes can change a whole week. These British and American dramas and comedies keep that arithmetic inside the story, with a Liverpool classic beside...

Derry Girls makes a small group feel inseparable from the place that shaped it: family habits, local language and a wider world that does not stop while somebody is having a teenage emergency...