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Keywords

  • #AccelerateAction | Internationaler Frauentag 2025
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Sooner Europe Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Coming of Age
  • media
  • pop culture
  • women

Actors

  • Hanna Jarman
  • Mari Beard
  • Mali Ann Rees
  • Sion Ifan

Director

  • Claire Fowler

Drama, Comedy

16+

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019

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For Carys, the end of her relationship is also the end of the world. Single for the first time in ages. And now?

Murder fantasist and lazy writer Carys, is failing. Full on failing - 27 years old. Dumped. No house. No Job. No idea what's going to happen next.

Episode 1

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13min

On the rebound Carys heads to a media house party with the Merched Parchus - looking for something or someone to make her feel better.

Episode 2

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14min

Phill Meredith's book launch 'Hanes yr A470' proves tedious for the Merched Parchus, so they embark on livening up the party themselves.

Episode 3

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13min

Dan gets Carys a job teaching history at her old school, a step forward in her quest for independence - but a shock phone call at the end of her first day reminds her that she isn't quite nailing life right now.

Episode 4

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13min

New year. New Carys. Time to get fit, eat well and finally write that book. But with the Merched Parchus preoccupied with their own lives, how long can this positivity prevail?

Episode 5

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13min

Still reeling from Emyr's shock confession, a chlamydia free Carys escapes to North Wales for Tudur George's writing course. Meanwhile everyone else celebrates Lowri's exhibition opening in Cardiff.

Episode 6

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18min

It's Rugby night at Clwb Ifor Bach. Disconnected from the Merched Parchus, Carys has hit rock bottom and is angrier and more unreasonable than ever.

Episode 7

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12min

Hung-over and repentant, Carys sets out to make amends with the Merched Parchus.

Episode 8

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15min

For Carys, the end of her relationship is also the end of the world. Single for the first time in ages. And now?


Carys is newly separated, 27 and forced to move back into her parents' house and finds herself back where she was 10 years ago. No job, no boyfriend and no idea what to do next.


While everyone around her manages to achieve Insta-filter perfection, "Rubbish Feminist" Carys soothes her broken heart with dramatic true crime podcasts - a soothing soundscape for her own grim reality.


Writer-director Claire Fowler made a number of human rights-themed documentary films and took part in higly acclaimed Academy's Nicholl Fellowship and BFI London Film Festival’s feature filmmaking program and worked as shadow director on "Homeland", "Pose" and "Manifest".

Cast & Crew