'The Change' Season 2's Trailer Shows Linda Isn't Ready to Go Home

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I did not hear the word "peri-menopause" until I was already north of 35; since crossing the invisible boundary into early cronehood, all of these symptoms no one ever bothered to mention suddenly started showing up. I'm not talking about hot flashes (or hot flushes as they're called in the U.K.); I'm talking about everything else that comes with what doctors refer to as "The Great Change." That's probably why I sat down to watch comedian Bridget Christie's 2023 series The Change when it arrived on BritBox, and it's why Season 2 is one of the highly-anticipated returning shows of 2025.

Season 1 of The Change starts somewhere somewhat reasonable: Linda, recently 50, thinks she may be having an existential crisis and early onset dementia... but no, her doctor tells her it's just menopause. As a reasonable human being living in the 21st century, Linda naturally decides to take the most sensible option. She hops on her Triumph motorbike and drives cross country to the Forest of Dean, where she chooses to walk away from modern life and join the Eel Sisters in their coven-like cult. She then lies her way to the top, becoming Eel Queen, before her unstable house of cards collapses.

(Listen, if you'd had a hot flash, you'd think running away to live in the forest as an Eel Sister is not the worst life choice.)