The Jetty is an upcoming BBC Studios series that purports to explore significant themes surrounding sexual morality, identity, and memory. Set to star Wilderness’ Jenna Coleman, the show is marketed as a blend of a coming-of-age tale and a detective thriller. Touted as: “The Jetty asks big questions about sexual morality, identity, and memory, in the places that #MeToo has left behind,” it is slated to be another “men bad” TV series.
Penned by Cat Jones, whose previous work includes TV dramas like Harlots, EastEnders, and Waterloo Road, BBC’s The Jetty is set to release later this year. Jones has expressed her excitement about the project, citing her admiration for BBC dramas and her eagerness to contribute to the network’s subversive storytelling tradition of late.
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The Jetty’s Detective Ember Manning, portrayed by Jenna Coleman, is yet again the stunning and brave strong female trope. To quote producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff: “I feel Ember can sort of do no wrong. She’s also got a good partner. We’ve got Archie Renaux playing her sidekick, Hitch. It’s a very interesting relationship. It starts out very much like, “oh God, he needs to learn from Ember,” and Ember is a sort of older sister, teaching him the way.”
The BBC forgot that what truly matters is the quality of storytelling and the relatability of characters. The BBC’s constant, and frankly tiresome, emphasis on featuring “strong female leads” as groundbreaking overshadows the need for well-crafted narratives and relatable characters. Even worse news is that the BBC is intent on pushing its woke propaganda. The interviewer noted: “I heard BBC Studios wants to tell more bold stories of women, and maybe do so in new or different ways. Why do you think audiences have more appetite for such fare? Does that have to do with societal change?” One wonders on what planet the interviewer lives, though, because audiences most certainly don’t “have more appetite for such fare.”
In The Jetty, Coleman portrays Detective Ember Manning, tasked with investigating a fire at a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town. As Manning delves deeper into the case, she uncovers connections between the fire, a podcast journalist’s investigation into a missing persons case, and an illicit love triangle involving underage girls.
What is even more concerning about the show’s concept of exploring sexual morality is Jenna Coleman, portraying Detective Ember Manning in The Jetty, saying about the show: “It has all sorts of blurred boundaries and is asking a lot of uncomfortable questions without fully answering them.” If these “blurred lines” and “uncomfortable questions without fully answering them” involves the “illicit love triangle with underage girls,” then the answer is simple, child abuse and grooming is wrong; there are no “blurred lines.”
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This is quite the cherry picking you’re doing to support your narrative. The quote about Ember can do no wrong continues like this (which you curiously left out): “But as we go along, there are moments where he just will say things that make her sort of stop and perhaps second-guess herself a little bit.”
You also ignored to mention the numerous mentions of Ember’s flaws, and how they affect her.
You also tried to form a connection between two completely different statements. The “blurred lines” are not about the underage girls.
Time will tell, meanwhile stay salty