Age Before Beauty

Series 1 - Episode 3

Review

by Alison Graham

Age before Beauty is infuriating. It’s meandering, silly and incredibly unlikely, with a nonsensical Othello-type subplot and characters who are, to a man and woman, impossible to like.

Yet just when you’ve given up all hope, usually by the last ten minutes, it fires into life with the prospect of something juicy.

Take this episode. The beauty salon-based stuff is boring, thanks to the dominance of the dreadful Leanne, who sucks the very air out of the place by being just so awful. There’s a lot of nonsense involving mobile billboards and a revenge plot spearheaded by Bel’s ghastly mother.

But things look as if they might kick off when home-wrecking Lorelei has a revelation.

Summary

Bel enlists the help of Ivy-Rae with regards to confronting her marital problems with Wes. Meanwhile, Leanne is trying to get one up on Bel and has organised a billboard to promote the salon. However, Leanne has overpaid for it and is distraught when Teddy publicly sides with Bel. At the unveiling of the sign, Leanne is spoiling for a fight with Bel because she feels undermined by the family, assuming Bel's in charge at the salon. Debbie Horsfield's drama, starring Polly Walker and Robson Green.

Cast & Crew

Bel Polly Walker

Teddy Robson Green

Wesley James Murray

Leanne Kelly Harrison

Tina Lisa Riley

Lorelei Madeleine Mantock

Heidi Vicky Myers

Ivy-Rae Sue Johnston

Chizzler Struan Rodger

Dante Amir El-Masry

Disney Isabella Gill

Lexie Lucy Polgar

Tyler Louie Threlfall

Mitchell Ross Grant

Joshua Tachia Newall

Director Paul Norton Walker

Executive Producer Debbie Horsfield

Executive Producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff

Executive Producer Sally Haynes

Executive Producer Laura Mackie

Producer Guy de Glanville

Writer Lee Warburton

Drama

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