Bad Dates
Quirky romantic comedy with a dark undertow, exploring romantic relationships in the modern world.
Bad Dates
Our protagonist, Artist Katarina Fellows (60) navigates her way to love throughout the series, as do her various ensemble cast:
the members of LASHHNB (Sex-Love Group therapy), her nephew Xavier and her dog Jack. We have a male narrator leading us through, her favourite, late Uncle Roderick, ( Simon Callow) watching on from ‘The Other Side’. The ‘Bad Date' changes in each episode, until Katarina has realised who ‘The One’ might be, by the end of episode 6, season 1. Episode 1 is The Shmoozer Timo 58 ( Simon Shepherd).
Bad Dates
The tone is jaunty and light, with surreal twists… dark waves enter sideways along Kat’s journey. We coast in and out of her daily life and flirtations at 60-ish, looking 50-ish, feeling 40-ish, and still glowing with the stardust of her certain ‘Je ne sais quoi’!
Kat lives with Jack, her Shih Tsui dog, and her 49-year-old nephew Xavier who turns up to stay just for a few days and ends up staying for the season.
He is trapped in a cycle of only falling in love with ‘The One’, once the horse has bolted, or rather the ex-girlfriends, who get fed up with waiting for commitment and leave!
Bad Dates
We get to know the members of the LASHHNB group throughout the episodes, exploring their issues with themselves and their relationships; this blends into a surreal arena showing them all as dogs and the group leader as a Crufts judge, for Best in Show. This will slip back and forther between creature images of dogs morphing into humans. Ghost London ( Owen Stark).
Bad Dates
The group comprises: Derek, benign and empathetic; Sascha, Ukrainian gay-male makeup artist for TV/films ( Jamie Reid-Quarrel); Daniel, 70-something academic, New Yorker straight; Simeon, 60’s, black, straight, high-flyer entrepreneur ( Peter Straker); Kylie, late 40’s, very Kensington, hyper and hetero; Sammy, bisexual, lost at 39/40 and desperate for a husband and family; Jed, non-binary…trying to find themselves… ( Ella Shrey-Yeats) and of course, Katarina (Hetty Baynes). Kat slips in and shares her past and present exploits with these eccentric individuals and as the series progresses.
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