Love in the 21st Century
As sex becomes less of a taboo in the new century, relationships get more diverse, but love is still a complicated thing that tests various couples in this drama.
- 1999-1999
- 1 season
- Drama
As sex becomes less of a taboo in the new century, relationships get more diverse, but love is still a complicated thing that tests various couples in this drama.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1999
Episode 1
Reproduction
When Fay turns 30, her mother and sisters keep pressing her to have a baby. She chases some guys, has sex with them, and keeps their sperm in a bottle in the fridge, then selects the most suitable for self-fertilization.
Episode 2
Threesomes
Louise and Kate are twenty-somethings who have been best mates since they were kids. They share everything: a flat in the funky part of Manchester; a market and a ...
Episode 3
Toyboys
The third short in a season of dramas about love finds Clare Holman as an art teacher attracted to a 15-year-old pupil. It whizzes along with a kind of naughty excitement that makes you wonder why school seemed like such hard work, but because it's only half-an-hour long you might as well go with the flow and forget its implausibility. Smart, funny and well constructed.
Episode 4
Masturbation
Jack and Amanda have been together for years and are still in love - they even still have great sex but it all begins to fall apart when Amanda catches Jack while masturbating fantasizing her best female friend, Claire.
Episode 5
Fantasies
Anna is a nurse with an active imagination. She has a good relationship with boyfriend Sean, but that doesn't stop her fantasizing about more exciting sex.
Episode 6
Commitment
Ellie has got it all - great looks, bucket loads of confidence, her own business and a gorgeous solicitor boyfriend, Nick. But she wants a sense of permanency.