G’wed: filthy, heartwarming Liverpool comedy packed with ideas

I only discovered G’wed after catching up on two series. The title is Scouse for "go ahead", not a mythic name, and the premise feels familiar: middle-class Christopher is forced to "slum it" with working-class lads at a new Liverpool secondary school, including his nemesis neighbour Reece.

Immature antics and merciless teasing give way to acceptance, but unlike similar shows the series keeps returning to grief and has more to say about class than your average fish-out-of-water premise. The central friendship group is comfortably mixed in gender, race and sexuality, yet the show avoids patronising assumptions.

It tackles unexpected subjects for a broad comedy — PIP assessments, male anorexia and, in the new series, the corporate suffocation of the Premier League — and swings into grey areas around consent, harm-related OCD and a mask-wearing digital vigilante called "Ye Ma".

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