Synopsis
Sweetpea (2024) is a British dark-comedy series from Sky Max — watch online on iFILM with Ella Purnell leading the cast. Director Ella Jones adapted C.J. Skuse's novel about Rhiannon Lewis, a young woman so thoroughly ignored by the world around her that people literally walk past without a second glance.
The tagline says it all: "It's always the quiet ones." Rhiannon reaches a breaking point and starts doing exactly what she wants — which is where the comedy tips into something considerably darker. Purnell plays the character with a stillness that makes the sudden shifts genuinely unsettling; it's a very different register from her previous work in Fallout.
The series sits in the same territory as Killing Eve or Dead to Me — female-led, blackly funny, and interested in how much pressure a person can absorb before they stop absorbing it. Stream Sweetpea online on iFILM.
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