'Such Brave Girls' Get Braver & More Bizarre in Season 2

With dark humor, odious characters, and outlandish plots, Such Brave Girls is the kind of show that viewers either love or hate. To enjoy it requires a strong stomach for secondhand embarrassment and suicide jokes. Its risky debut in 2023 paid off, winning audience acclaim and the 2024 BAFTA for best-scripted comedy. Created by up-and-coming writer Kat Sadler and starring Sadler and her real-life sister Lizzie Davidson, Such Brave Girls has returned for a second season that is braver and more bizarre than ever.

Sadler and Davidson star as Josie and Billie, two sisters who yearn for attention but seek it in opposite ways. Josie, a manic-depressive lesbian, slumps through life like an emo teen, hoping her tragic demeanor will win her sympathy. Billie is a ray of faux sunshine with a plastered-on smile who throws herself at men to fix financial and self-esteem problems. If you’re wondering where these two get such winsome personalities, enter Deb (Louise Brealey), their single mother. Deb has a veneer of Billie’s can-do attitude, thinly concealing her own version of Josie’s depression and a heap of financial woes.

If you were expecting character growth or emotional catharsis after Season 1, be forewarned; that is not what this show is about. The season begins when Deb and Billie kidnap Josie from a lecture hall and force her to marry her boyfriend Seb (Freddie Meredith) (A lesbian with a boyfriend? Yep, long story, see Season 1.) They do all this, and far more throughout the season, to prove to Deb’s wealthy boyfriend Dev (Paul Bazely) that they are the types of women men marry. You almost root for the three women to make bad decisions that will upend their lives, like when Josie and Billie try to bribe a tween with cocaine after she sees Billie getting intimate with said tween’s dad.