"On the small screen, Wood specialises in vulnerability the kind of characters who survive life despite having a layer of skin missing. You watch in the nail-biting hope that their courage will be enough to see them through and that the people they meet will be kind. It makes sense that Film Club, Wood's first foray into writing (with Ralph Davis), is built round another variation on this theme."
"Evie (Woods) and Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan, so good in everything and just perfect here) have been best friends since university, where they started a weekly film club that has endured ever since. These days it is usually just the two of them, a sweet, gentle, funny pair, dressing up in suitable costumes every Friday night after Noa clocks off work as a family lawyer, and enjoying their time together."
"Now, however, they do so in Evie's mum's garage because Evie hasn't been able to leave the house since her wobble six months ago, the exact nature of which is gradually revealed over the six-episode run. Evie set-dresses the garage appropriately for the film every week (an abundance of tinfoil, tubing and bubble wrap for Alien, huge flowers and lollipops for The Wizard of Oz and so on). It is a cocoon, a refuge and potentially a dependency."
Aimee Lou Wood rose to prominence in 2019 and has since played vulnerable characters across television, stage, and film. Film Club, co-written by Wood and Ralph Davis, follows Evie and Noa, long-term friends who maintain a weekly themed film club now held in Evie's mother’s garage. Evie has not left the house since a wobble six months earlier, and her elaborate set-dressing turns the garage into a cocoon that is comforting yet potentially dependent. Noa receives a job offer in Bristol, introducing distance that tests their bond and brings unspoken feelings to the surface. The series examines dependence, courage, and hope for kindness.
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