Adult Material is a TV series starring Hayley Squires, Siena Kelly, and Anya McKenna-Bruce. A woman's life working in the adult film industry spans from its seedy beginnings to a highly successful enterprise.
Squires gives what may be the comedy performance of the year as the porn-star mum, while Alex Jarrett is exceptional as Phoebe, mingling bolshie belligerence with shy sensitivity.
Lucy Kirkwood's funny and dark script has plenty of shocks in store for viewers during the first episode alone - including one that will leave you reeling.
Adult Material is a study in how we compromise, protect ourselves, the effect of childhood experiences big and small on where we end up and of how much responsibility we bear to each other.
Kirkwood has important things to say about the degrading reality of pornography. Yet in showing us the sheer ghastliness of the porn industry she has given us something rather shocking and indigestible.
