Minor spoilers follow.
Sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it? But the Riot Women, as they call themselves – although Hot Flush was a hell of a shout from Lorraine Ashbourne's Jess – are no laughing matter in Sally Wainwright's new BBC drama.
What starts off as a bit of fun with mates, and to help raise money for the refugees – Jess doesn't know which ones – becomes a lifeline for Kitty (Rosalie Craig), Beth (Joanna Scanlan), Holly (Tamsin Greig), Yvonne (Amelia Bullmore) and Jess herself.
They're all going through it in one way or another – such is life when you hit the intersection of being a woman who's also over the age of 40... although the baby of the group Nisha, played by Taj Atwal, doesn't escape the pitfalls of being a woman at any age.
View oEmbed on the source website"She's often lied to, she's often kicked about in life," Rosalie Craig said of Kitty in an interview with RadioTimes.com.
"She finds herself in a situation where she doesn't know where to turn," explained Craig. "She was seeing [a man called] Gavin for a while and he told her that he'd left his wife, but obviously he hasn't," which is the source of her current rage.
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Happy Valley’s Sally Wainwright divulges emotional personal inspiration behind Riot Women - as cast of characters explainedHappy Valley's James Norton working with Sally Wainwright on her first movieBut Kitty has been seething her whole life, harbouring a painful secret that has crystallised over time, her identity formed around that dreadful, barbed thing that has bled into every aspect of her life.
Yet she's not alone, even if it does feel that way.
"I'm just at that age, so: anxiety, insomnia, apathy, low mood, brain fog, feeling like you're disappearing down a black hole, drowning, going mad, fading away. Just that sort of thing," she says as casually as running through a weekly shopping list.
But the second is from Jess, asking Beth if she wants to be in a rock band, which stops her in her tracks – and paves the way for her introduction with Kitty and the rest of the group, who lift each other out of their respective mires as they rise like leather-clad phoenixes from the ashes.
"And what I love about Beth and Kitty is that they're not a likely duo, but Beth sort of becomes a surrogate mother for Kitty. And Kitty, who hasn't really had the best of starts in life, probably feels like she can start to allow Beth to be that figure in her life.
"And the music gels them together and glues them in a very special, profound way. Because they make this music together, and along with the other Riot Women, just the way that they're all linked is completely unique."
"There's absolutely a second, third, fourth chance," said Craig of how the drama champions new beginnings, redemption, or simply showing the world who you really are. "You can reinvent yourself. You can start again."
"By doing it, you benefit as a person, and you're benefiting others because you're allowing them to hear you in your rawest sense of self, and that makes a kind of togetherness," said Scanlan.
And age is no barrier to that, despite women being repeatedly told otherwise since time immemorial. If anything, being 40, 50, 60 – whatever stage of life you find yourself in – is even more of a reason to jump in feet first.
Because those scars and bruises, invisible or otherwise, mean something — they make killer lyrics.
Riot Women premieres on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 12th October at 9pm, with episodes available to stream now on iPlayer.
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