Quite A Peace

We've just finished watching seasons one and two of Lip Service, a great dramatic series about lesbians from the BBC. It's currently streaming on Netflix and may be my favorite lesbian television show for the following reason: it was produced by the BBC which means foreign accents, grit and humor, nudity and a fair amount of swearing.

It also seems like a much more realistic interpretation of lesbian life than anything Hollywood has produced. These ladies are in their early thirties, working in Glasgow, or trying to find work, fucking up, and dealing with normal events, they're not super glamorous, just lesbians navigating their way through their relationships with each other. Sure there is a few questionable things like who thought Cat and Frankie made any sense together? But the show keeps getting better and I think it has a lot to do with one pretty hot lady cop played by Heather Peace.

There's a lot of other really great character's as well, but Heather Peace is the only real lesbian actress on the show. And although that doesn't mean the others don't pull it off convincingly, it certainly adds a bit of intrigue into Sam; the pretty, responsible, loving, and successful cop with the challenging story line, and a butch swagger. Plus she's pretty adorable in real life too. Her partner Ellie posts ridiculously sweet pictures like this on Twitter:

And, when she's not doing the acting thing she's performing in music gigs all around Scotland and the UK. She has a band, and an album, Fairytales, which you can preview and purchase here.  I'm a sucker for a pretty, talented lesbian who can play the guitar, but I'm also really interested in seeing what happens with Detective Sargent Sam Murray in Season 3 of Lip Service which hopefully will be in the works soon. Until then we will just have to watch and re-watch the first two seasons and wonder what will happen with Sam, and Lexy, and Tess, and Sadie, Frankie....