Chewing gum

Television series
German title	Chewing gum
Original title	Chewing gum
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Year (s)	2015-2017
Production company	Retort
length	23 minutes
Episodes	12 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre	Comedy
Director	Tom Marshall, Simon Neal
idea	Michaela Coel
script	Michaela Coel
production	Kelly McGolpin, John Pocock, Michaela Coel
music	Shakka Philipp, Michaela Coel
Initial release	October 6, 2015 (United Kingdom) on Netflix
First publication in German	November 20, 2016 on Netflix
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Chewing Gum is a British semi-autobiographical comedy - TV series directed by and starring Michaela Coel , whose first two seasons from 2015 to 2017 on E4 were broadcast internationally on Netflix appeared. It is about the 24-year-old virgin Tracey Gordon in search of sexual experience. The series and Coels performance received very positive reviews and received two BAFTA awards in 2016.

action

The series takes place in a public housing area in Tower Hamlets in the east part of London and follows the 24-year-old black Tracey Gordon (played by Michaela Coel), who wants to lose her virginity with her new white boyfriend and first has to discover her sexual needs how these work. Tracey repeatedly breaks through the so-called fourth wall and turns to the audience to comment on their situation.

characters

Tracey's family are Evangelical Christians with strong beliefs in Christ's guidance. Her mother Joy and her uptight sister Cynthia, whose hobby is the board game Ludo , consider those around them to be sinful and corrupted by Satan. They preach to citizens on the street and hand out flyers for Joy's own church. Tracey also believes in Christ, but less obsessively, but is at the same time a fan of Beyoncé , and at the age of 24 wants to finally break out of religious confinement and have sexual experiences. Unfortunately, when aroused she gets nosebleeds. She works at the checkout in the supermarket Deepak's Delectables .

Her partner Ronald, however, is also evangelical and does not want sex before marriage. After breaking up with him, she realizes that he is really gay, which he only admits to himself at the end of the first season. Her new partner is her neighbor Connor, who lives with his mother Mandy, who often bursts into his room during sexual situations without knocking. He is lazy and has no job, but writes bad poems on or in the dumpster in front of her house. He had many sexual partners before Tracey, but no boyfriend. In his relationship with Tracey, however, he still has difficulties with the fact that his penis does not remain stiff during intercourse with her. After breaking up with Tracey, he has a relationship with 45-year-old Emma.

Tracey's best friend since childhood is Candice. She is in a relationship with Aaron and loves BDSM and toughness in bed, but the rather sensitive Aaron can't give her that, which is why Candice doesn't think he's man enough. Tracey's circle of friends from Candice, the sisters Karly and Kristy Raven, Candice's grandmother Esther and Connor's mother Mandy and the gay Ola are all sexually experienced, talk to Tracey openly about sexual issues and give her advice over and over again to get to know someone about how to lose their virginity and to try it out, but which she implements wrongly and screwed up due to her inexperience.

Episode list

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First release UK	German language first publication (D)	Director	script
1	1	Sex & Violence	Sex & Violence	October 6, 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
Tracey lets Candice and Esther change the style of her to seduce her boyfriend, but he is disgusted with her, so he throws her out and walks into the street where he is hit. Tracey makes out with Connor at Candice's party and sits on his face, which Cynthia is watching. Candice confesses to her boyfriend that she wants violent sex, which makes him cry.
2	2	Off in the bin	Binned	October 13, 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
When Connor's cum lands on her leg while jerking off, Tracey thinks she needs something to keep it from getting pregnant. Connor's mother, who turns out to be the thief from her shop, speaks to Tracey, her new best friend, very openly about her sexual desires and also reveals to her that Connor has had sex with many women. When Tracey finally visits Ronald, who has more eyes for his carer, she realizes that he is probably gay.
3	3	Obsessed	Possession	20th October 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
Tracey is recruited for a job in sales by a former classmate, but fails the trial. Nevertheless, she is smuggled to the boss's party by a colleague to get him drugs, which she ultimately takes herself. Candice and Esther try to sell used dildos in their apartment.
4th	4th	The Unicorn	The unicorn	October 27, 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
When they try intercourse, Connor's penis doesn't stay hard because he thinks Tracey is "too pure" and she tries to get dirtier. She organizes a date with a “unicorn” - a single girl who wants a threesome with a straight couple. In the meantime, Cynthia borrows Tracey's laptop and starts a conversation on a porn site with someone who appears to be suicidal, but it turns out to be an auto-erotic game of suffocation.
5	5	The last supper	The Last Supper	3rd November 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
Because her friends think Connor is a loser, Tracey secretly registers him for a poet's stage, but his performance is laughed at by the audience. Joy gives a family dinner attended by Tracey's cousin, Boy Tracy, who undresses in front of Tracey and wants to sleep with her. Connor and Ronald, who is now engaged to Cynthia, also appear for dinner. Tracey is kicked out of her apartment by her mother for her antics with men.
6th	6th	Great thing	Tolled Road	November 10, 2015	20th November 2016	Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
Tracey is staying with Candice for the time being, but cannot stay there either; she has to go to Connor's when she tells him that she doesn't love him. Before Cynthia's wedding, Tracey tries to convince her that Ronald is gay, including seducing Aaron and recording a captivating video. At the wedding ceremony, instead of making a vow to Cynthia, Ronald finally gives a speech in which he admits that he is gay. Meanwhile, Connor is looking for a job and is fired again so quickly that his mother throws him out. Finally Tracey and Connor set off together with their things in garbage bags.

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First release UK	German language first publication (D)	Director	script
7th	1	What happened?	WTF Happened?	January 12, 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal & Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel
After three months in a homeless shelter, Tracey returns and takes up residence in Deepak's shop. Connor walks in and locks up the shop to talk to her about what happened when he thought she was cheating on him. Because he has a new girlfriend, Tracey lies to him that she too has a new relationship - with Stormzy .
8th	2	Sapling change you	Replacements	19th January 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal	Michaela Coel
Because Tracey doesn’t tell her mother where she’s been in the past few months, Tracey gives her responsibilities to help the community to prove herself. She meets the attractive Ash, with whom she makes an appointment. He tells her he's never had anything with a black girl and makes her dance in an African tribal costume in his penthouse when his black wife shows up with her children. When she returns home and finally tells the truth, her mother lets her inside again.
9	3	Unwanted	I just need some company	January 26, 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal & Tom Marshall	Michaela Coel & Rob Hayes
Joy and her brother Ray receive a visit from a city administrator because the church is not complying with the requirements. At the night watch she bursts into tears, touched by the sermon, but will close the church anyway. Tracey is invited to a party by Boy Tracy and takes Candice and Aaron with her, but the location turns out to be a sex club. Tracey organizes water volleyball with dildos there until Boy Tracy ejaculates into the water.
10	4th	Orlando	Orlando	2nd February 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal	Michaela Coel
Cynthia sees Ronald in a video of a youth community and drives there to request an apology. When he insults her instead, she shows his new friend how he is cheating on him. Tracey logs on to an app to be allowed to groom dogs and meets the photographer Lance with his dachshund Orlando, whom Mandy knows. She lets Lance persuade her to take photos of Orlando licking her legs in underwear for a niche porn website Oral-Ando.com . Esther has a date with a blind man.
11	5	The Liberation Plan	Road trip	February 9, 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal	Michaela Coel
Candice is supposed to meet Aaron's parents for the first time and Tracey and Ola are also going with them. While Ola is involved in a gay couple's sex games, Candice has sex with Aaron's more male father. Cynthia devises a sexual release plan and invites Ryan home, with whom she loses her virginity. But the next morning he and all the furniture are gone.
12	6th	Age is just a number too	Age Ain't Nothing but a Number	February 9, 2017	4th April 2017	Simon Neal	Michaela Coel
Tracey goes to a book club without reading the book and meets Remi with whom she finally has real sex. But then she told her that he was only 16, which she reported to the police - in the UK, however, sex with a 16-year-old is not illegal. Aaron breaks up with Candice. Karly Raven has her baby, who is surprisingly white, and celebrates the christening with the neighborhood. Then the furniture reappears, because the stepson of Tracey's father, who works in a used furniture store, happens to be Ryan.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was created by SDI Media Germany GmbH after the dialogue book and the dialogue director of Constantin von Jascheroff , who also speaks a role.

role	description	actor	Voice actor
Tracey		Michaela Coel	Anne Helm (Season 1)
			Giovanna Winterfeldt (Season 2)
Cynthia	Tracey's sister	Susan Wokoma	Sarah Everything
Joy	Tracey's and Cynthia's mother	Shola Adewusi	Anna Dramski
Ronald	Tracey's first partner, gay	John MacMillan	Mario von Jascheroff
Connor	Tracey's new partner	Robert Lonsdale	Constantin von Jascheroff
Mandy	Connor's mother	Tanya Franks	Cathlen Gawlich
Candice	Tracey's best friend	Danielle Walters	Anne Düe
Esther ("Nan")	Candice's grandmother	Maggie Steed	Luise Lunow
Aaron	Candice's partner	Kadiff Kirwan	Nico Mamone
Karly Raven	Tracey's and Candice's friends	Sarah Hoare	Josephine von Jascheroff (Season 1)
			Olivia Büschken (Season 2)
Kristy Raven		Abby Rakic-Platt	Lena Rettinghaus
Ola	Candice and Tracey's gay friend	Olisa Odele	Kaze Uzumaki (Season 1)
			Leonhard Mahlich (Season 2)
Emma	Connor's New Partner (Season 2)	Sinnead Matthews	Alice Bauer

Origin and charisma

The series is based on the play Chewing Gum about 14-year-old Tracey, written by Michaela Coel in 2012. Coel also wrote and sang the theme song and other songs in the first season. In the second season, Coel also worked on the production. The filming took place intentionally by Coel in the summer so that the social housing estate does not appear aesthetically as a depressing place.

The first season was broadcast on E4 from October 6 to November 10, 2015 and appeared on Netflix in Germany on November 20, 2016. The second season ran on E4 from January 12 to February 9, 2017 and appeared on Netflix on April 4. In April 2017, E4 announced that there would be no third season. In January 2018, Coel said she was working on a third season; in December, however, finally that there won't be any.

reception

Chewing Gum and the acting performance of Michaela Coel received extremely positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , both seasons have a 100% critical rating.

For Mike Hale of the New York Times it was one of the ten best international series of 2016. After the second season he writes that Coel is a clown in the best and traditional sense: “joyful, rampant, unashamed and ready to go into any Direction to go in search of laughter. ”In the last episodes of the second season, however, the ideas were scarce, but there are episodes and moments that are on par with the first season. "As long as she covers up her insecurities with roar, fantastic lies, and some of the funniest tantrums on TV, Chewing Gum is worth binge-watching ."

Filipa Jodelka writes for the Guardian after the first season that Coel's timing, warmth and gift for body comedy make her the return of Lucille Ball . She also praises the presentation of the social housing estate, which manages without "a single picture of gloomy, dilapidated apartment blocks, boys with pit bulls and weathered men trying to look threatening next to a Nissan Sunny ". Sam Wollaston writes about the second season that Coel's creation and performance are hilariously filthy, but at the same time human, tender, even wise and most definitely truthful - a big piece of modern working class urban life that rudely and gloriously pressed into the viewer's face will.

Noemi Molitor writes for Taz that the series is so dirty, honest and bold, in comparison Sex and the City looks like cute banter behind closed doors. She is particularly amused by Tracey's "unwavering failure".

Awards

• British Academy Television Awards 2016 : Best Female Comedy Performance to Coel
• British Academy Television Craft Awards 2016 : Breakthrough Talent at Coel
• RTS Television Awards : Breakthrough, Comedy Performance at Coel
• Screen Nation Awards 2016 : Favorite Comedy Production

Web links

• Channel 4 website
• Chewing Gum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Chewing Gum at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chewing Gum. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Ilana Kaplan: 'Chewing Gum': Meet the Mastermind Behind Netflix's Sex-Obsessed Britcom . In: Rolling Stone . April 11, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
3. ↑ Michaela Coel explains why the music she recorded for Chewing Gum isn't getting released . In: fader . January 12, 2017. Accessed March 8, 2020.
4. ↑ Tim Lewis: Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel: 'I enjoy making people uncomfortable' . In: Guardian . January 8, 2017. Accessed March 8, 2020.
5. ↑ Yohana Desta: Goodbye to Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum, a Rare Burst of Joy . In: Variety . August 22, 2017. Accessed March 8, 2020.
6. ↑ Dee Lockett: Michaela Coel Will Make a Third Season of Chewing Gum, But This Time With a Writers Room . In: Vulture . January 12, 2018. Accessed March 8, 2020.
7. ↑ Chewing Gum at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
8. ↑ James Poniewozik, Mike Hale and Neil Genzlinger: The Best TV Shows of 2016 . In: The New York Times . December 5, 2016. Accessed March 9, 2020.
9. ↑ Mike Hale: Review: In 'Chewing Gum,' a Young Woman Hilariously Tries to Lose Her Virginity . In: The New York Times . April 7, 2017. Accessed March 9, 2020.
10. ↑ Filipa JODEŁKA: Council Estate of Mind: Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum is smart, bawdy and brilliant . In: The Guardian . October 6, 2015. Accessed March 9, 2020.
11. ↑ Sam Wollaston: Chewing Gum review - Michaela Coel's hilarious, filthy comedy returns . In: The Guardian . January 13, 2017. Accessed March 9, 2020.
12. ↑ Noemi Molitor: Sex Toys and the Bible . In: taz . January 13, 2017. Accessed March 9, 2020.
13. ^ Female Performance in a Comedy Program . In: BAFTA . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
14. ^ Television Craft . In: BAFTA . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
15. ↑ RTS Program Awards 2016 . In: Royal Television Society . Retrieved March 9, 2020.
16. ^ Michaela Coel wins two Royal Television Society Awards, Screen Nation Award, BAFTA Breakthrough Nomination for Chewing Gum . In: Retort . March 24, 2016. Accessed March 9, 2020.