Can't Cope, Won't Cope (2016)

Directed by

Cathy Brady

Genre

comedy television series

Country

Ireland

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young women from small-town Ireland share a house in Dublin while navigating their twenties. One works as a fund manager and the other is an art student, and they deal with the messiness of friendship, work, and growing up.

comedicmelancholicrelatablebittersweetfast-pacedwryslice-of-life

What happens

Can't Cope, Won't Cope is an Irish comedy-drama television series. It was created by Stefanie Preissner and produced by Deadpan Pictures for RTÉ2 in 2016. Seána Kerslake played fund manager Aisling and Nika McGuigan played art student Danielle. They are twenty-something friends from Mallow, County Cork, who share a house in Dublin. The first season was picked up by BBC 3 in 2017 and Netflix in the US, UK and Republic of Ireland in 2018. A second series was commissioned in 2017 and broadcast in 2018. The series also featured Amy Huberman. In August 2018, writer Stefanie Preissner confirmed that a third series would not be made, thus ending the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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