Okay, I caught this program, The Only Way is Essex, late this evening on Hulu for the first time and, after two episodes, I fear it may become my guilty pleasure.
Firstly, the show is nonsensical. For those who have seen it or do watch it, what is it? It promotes itself as a reality show, but it is clearly scripted.
The scenarios are ridiculous. Are these supposed to be rich kids or poor rich kid wannabes? I also don’t care one whit about any of the characters as they all seem self-absorbed, self-centered, pretentious, plastic louts, both the guys and girls.
As I said, I’ve only seen two episodes, but I suspect the main reason for my attraction is the character Amy Childs, but not for the reason you may think. She has the most strangely unique accent I think I may have ever heard. I hang on her every sentence as she has this odd way of pronouncing certain words, for example the word ‘honey’ she pronounces it ‘hunaay’. What kind of accent is that?
Anyway, I may give up on the Only Way is Essex once my fascination with Amy’s accent wanes if the program doesn’t begin to make sense in a few more episodes.
TOWIE = the British answer to Jersey Shore. Think about all the things you associate with Snookie and The Situation and then move them over the pond. Presto!
Ah, okay. I’ve heard enough about Jersey Shore to know what you’re getting at. So, this program really is as stupid as it seems then. It does have a trainwreckish feel, but I thought it was just me.
I’d still like to know what the accent is that Amy Child’s sports. Is this her natural accent? If not, she’s the greatest actress evah!
Start of a guilty pleasure. Stah=start, 'av=of (glottal stop between start and of), a=a, gui’ee=guilty (glottal stop in the middle of the word guilty), plejah=pleasure.
Ah. I thought it may have been cockney rhyming slang for something rude.
Mate 1: Check out those birds, mate.
Mate 2: Those goze ah baftas, mate.
Mate 1: You wouldn’t know, mate, innit?
Mate 2: Wa’ I know is your mum’s a propa bafta.
I watched 5 minutes of it once at my sisters insisting.
The thing is as noted above, it’s clearly scripted and the people delivering the lines are not actors and do not appear to have any natural talents in that line.
It’s like a depiction of a ludricously bad acting performance in a comedy, only treated (semi-)seriously.
