Sweetpea Is Here: What Is It About & Is the Show With Fallout Star Even Good?
Ella Purnell clearly knows how to pick a project.
Starz has released all episodes of the miniseries Sweetpea starring the incredible Ella Purnell, star of Yellowjackets and the Fallout series.
The show is an adaptation of CJ Skuse's novel of the same name about a vengeful maniac who kills abusers and villains. Sweetpea works with the concept of revenge and turns it into something more.
What Is Sweetpea About?
Rhiannon wants to kill everyone. Because everyone thinks she is a waste of space. Everyone abandons her – her mother, her sister and her rare boyfriends. She is like a ghost escaped from an English castle – completely invisible and full of hatred for the living.
The school and the evil classmates, led by Julia, made the girl so desperate. Their mockery drove Rhiannon to nervous baldness and turned her into a quiet woman with a victim complex.
Before he dies, Rhiannon's father asks his beloved daughter to finally start defending her boundaries. Rhiannon misunderstands her father's instructions and begins to kill. Rhiannon takes out her pent-up anger on a brazen stranger from the bar. After forty stabs with a pocket knife, the rage is gone. The next morning, the girl wakes up with a smile and a happy blush.
Sweetpea Is a Fresh Take on TV Maniacs
The series immediately states its goal: to turn the usual image of a TV maniac on its head by means of gender inversion. Ella Purnell's gaze masters the task perfectly, darting timidly from side to side and savoring with psychopathic greed how Rhiannon takes revenge on her tormentors.
The first episode describes in detail the transformation of an oppressed girl and victim of abuse into an aggressor. Misfortune always falls on Rhiannon's shoulders – this is convincingly demonstrated by the uncomfortable space of her shabby house and the lack of closeness to people.
The woman tries to justify her lust for violence. To her delight, the murdered man turns out to be a really bad person. The second victim, too. So killing villains is a decent thing to do?
Rhiannon Is Confronted by Her Complete Opposite
A show about an ambivalent character cannot do without a genre-regulating law. Rhiannon is hardly like Dexter – she kills too spontaneously and leaves a lot of evidence behind. So the police officer Marina is on her trail.
She brings an important moral constraint to the story and at the same time helps the audience to reconsider their attitude towards the main character. Marina also hates the whole world, she also has a list of people she would like to kill, but she does not cross the line.
Rhiannon is a really fun character to watch, even if it's sometimes obvious how the next scene will end. However, Sweetpea is full of important reminders: for example, that you shouldn't underestimate hurt people, or bully anyone – resentment can be heavier than a stone and sharper than a blade.