The Greatness of My Mad Fat Diary
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- A retrospective video on My Mad Fat Diary (2013 - 2015). Breaking down the complexities of Rae's teenage insecurities and how it impacts her interpersonal relationships. #MyMadFatDiary
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Novelist Rae Earl meet Screenwriter Tom Bidwell Chat on Skype about My Mad Fat Diary
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My Mad Fat Diary
Rae Earl
Tom Bidwell
Sharon Rooney / Rachel "Rae" Earl
Jodie Comer / Chloe Gemell
Claire Rushbrook / Linda Earl-Bouchtat
Ian Hart / Kester Gill
Sophie Wright / Tix
Dan Cohen / Archie
Nico Mirallegro / Finley "Finn" Nelson
Ciara Baxendale / Izzy
Jordan Murphy / Arnold "Chop" Peters
Darren Evans / Danny Two Hats
Bamshad Abedi-Amin / Karim Bouchtat
My Mad Fat Diary Season 1 / My Mad Fat Diary Series 1
Lincolnshire, England
My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary
I loved that you talked about my mad fat Diary. It one of my favorites tv shows. I started watching that show when I 15. I struggle with my own issues at the time. I related to Rae alot. I'm 22 now. It still one of my favorite shows.
Such an underrated show. The writing was so solid that first season, as was the acting. As a bigger girl who has struggled with mental health, binge eating and suicidal ideation, it literally felt like watching a show about me in a lot of ways, and that is something I had never had before (or really found since).
“Rae’s a secret freak” is such an understatement, but is such a real representation of being a teen girl.
Dude, Sharon Rooney is such an underrated, amazingly talented actress. I am so upset she hasn't gotten more recognition.(she still works, smaller tv roles here and there,but I want so much more from her- she has range, if only given a chance) Now, this is not meant to take away anything from Jodie, she's brilliant aswell; however, of the two she's blown up immensely over the last few years, wish the same could happen with Sharon.
I’ve been saying this for years, Jodie was and is fantastic but Sharon deserves the same career trajectory and it’s upsetting she’s doing bit parts (and Barbie)
@asmileisspecial yep, my thoughts exactly.
Would love to see Sharon in more dramas! I was so disappointed when she was in Barbie without her Scottish accent!
check out the show jerk, shes a main character in that!
this show was so comforting as a teen
For anyone who hasn’t seen the show, the soundtrack is also awesome! Great video, I had just been thinking about rewatching it and then this video popped up!
I absolutely loved this show as a teen, helped through a lot. So happy to see someone analyze it I always felt like it deserved more recognition
This!,
The characters (writing and acting) are incredibly well done in MMFD. So glad you have done a video on this. First watched this when I was 14 and have done a couple of rewatches since (now 26). I find it fascinating how my perspective of the characters has evolved over the years. I used to hate Rae's Mum but now I really sympathise with her. There are also definitely some things that I knew were off or wrong at the time, but I now recognise as messed up and predatory as an adult.
Also it's so good to see Sharon Rooney and Jodie Comer grow their careers since this because I remember thinking they needed way more recognition for their performances here.
This show singlehandedly saved my life. I watched it when I was 14 and almost 10 years later I still constantly think about it. It sucks that it got a rushed ending, but I remember how at the time I didn't get it at all. And now it makes So much sense. I'm really happy this was the teenage show I decided to watch, the way it delt with the same issues other shows tried to was very sensible and responsible. I also read the first book when I was 18 and it's really beautiful too. I nv see anyone talk about it so thank you so much ♡ This show deserves more recognition
Watching this show again as an adult was very different to my experience as a teenager. I empathised with Chloe a lot more in the latter watch. Fantastic show.
Chloe is a victim of her own in this, the show even shows it
@ absolutely.
Chloe is irredeemable, she is privileged scum.
She is not a victim whatsoever.
@@CcC-ct9tb she is 100% a victim. Took me a long time to see it but she is as much of a victim as Rae is. Yes Chloe grew up with both parents present in her life, a nice house, wealthy etc. But that didn’t prevent her from engaging in inappropriate relationships with older/abusive men. Chloe struggled with body image just as much as Rae did. Yes she was fortunate to have the “perfect” body but that doesn’t stop the pressure a lot of young women are under to look and be perfect. That pressure leads to women feeling as if they are competing with each other for male affection/attention. It’s not as evident in the first season but definitely in the latter 2.
I'm not British and english isn't my first language, but when I found this show, I felt seen and said to myself: so, I'm not a monster.
Gracias, MMFD ♥.
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I'm so glad I found this show as a teenager when I was going through similar feelings. This show helped me articulate so much of what I was feeling
New favorite youtuber!!!! I cannot stand secondhand embarrassment, but there is also nothing I love more than messy, realistic depictions of teenage girls. This is how I get my fix lol.
You explained a lot of the nuances of Rae and Chloe's relationship beautifully.
It reminded me a lot of my own childhood best friend. Looking back at old messages, the literal only way I can describe our friendship was volatile, which was shocking because it didn't feel that way at all.
23:28 I don’t think she was assuming Rae didn’t wanna be friends. I feel like she was threatening to end the friendship as a form of avoidance. Avoidance of accountability and rejection. Like a panic response.
Finally some love for MMFD! This show is sooo underrated.
Thank you so much for talking about it! It was such an underrated show!
Surprised this show made it to anybody in America, but glad. One of the greats, and this is a great vid on it!
I have been waiting for someone to make a video about this show for years!
I have been looking for MONTHS to see someone talk about this show and the fact that searching for it 2 days ago was when I found your video was perfect. Your video quality, analysis, and insight is very well put together ❤❤ keep up the great work dude! Looking forward to seeing more
so glad people are finally talking about mmfd like this. i first watched this when it first came out when i was 13 and it meant so much to me as a mentally ill teenager going through what rae was going through. it was the first time i saw mental illness not portrayed romantically and had the lead be someone who looks like sharon rooney, someone i saw myself in. its still a comfort show for me, despite now being mentally stable and able to cope with life 's struggles. when i watch the show now, instead of relating it to how im feeling currently, i think back to that young girl i once was and i think about how far ive come. rae finds this herself in the third season, so it feels like we both made it to the other side which is full of stability, confidence, and joy. this is still one of my favorite shows of all time and i highly recommend it. its such an important piece of media and im so thankful it was created.
I watched this show when I was in my early 30’s and still found it relatable. You have done a superb job analyzing it
I absoloutely loved this show so much, I felt like the first time I was ever understood in my life, seeing an underdog as the main character and showing her love interests was amazing. I was diagnosed with OCD around two years later and I loved how they portrayed OCD without specifying what it was because it took me a while to figure it out or even know what it was, I loved how open the real Rae Earl was about it all too.
Watched MMFD for the first time this year and I loved it. Rea spoke me a lot. Many scenes made me cry.
Great video, and can’t wait for more parts.
I watched this as an adult even though I was a teenager when it came out. So glad I left it until I was older because I appreciated it more. Absolutely love Rae.
I always felt sad when Rae referred to Chloe as her "best friend" 'cause I was like "gurl, that is NOT your best friend, that is a person you hang out with". Chloe is a TERRIBLE friend. I think she does SOMETIMES mean well...like, in the first example you show, she's technically just telling Rae the truth...but in a really tactless way, hurtful way.
Biggest flex is that this show is set in my county
Loved this show as a teen, it’s so underrated
FINALLY SOMEONEACKNOWLEDGE THIS MASTERPIECE
This show was everything to me
This show is cemented in my lil teenage heart FOREVER!!!!
This series deserves more recognition. One of my absolute favorites 😁 Thank you for shining a light on it!
i love this show so glad it’s getting recognition
Omg !! I live seeing this show get flowers. It was sooooo incredibly important to me at such vulnerable time.
I cannot praise this show enough. It helped me so much when I was struggling with my body and mental health. I love this show❤
I Love this show with my HEART, constantly watched it 7th grade and freshman year.
This show came out when I was 16 but I think I found it a few years later. I love this show and it doesn’t get brought up enough
amazingly good quality video, I'm shocked you don't have more subscribers!! I really love your insights and the way you examined each character, well done!
My mad fat diary changed my life man. I love that people are still talking about it. It also got me into the bands Blur and Oasis lol
this show was perfect i was so happy to see her in Barbie!
Ahhhhhhh 😆 I’ve been WAITNG AND DREAMING of a video tht covers this series. When I was in the throws of my eating d!$order and depression I loved this series. As a former fat girl I related so much to Rae and loved almost every minute of the show. Even though I had lost the weight on the inside I was still my former fat self, insecure and hating every ounce of my being especially my physical appearance. This show is so special to me because of how real it is in showing the struggles of teenage hood and being a fat girl. Which I’ve never experienced in another show EVER, I have yet to come across a show quite like this one. Thank you for making this video ❤ and if anyone has any show recommendations that are like this pls reply to me. I might post another comment once I’m done cuz I don’t wanna come back to edit this one 😂
Didn’t watch the show but I was bawling for the whole second half of the video
you have incredible emotional intelligence ❤I love this type of recaps/analyses, keep em comin' pls
Looking forward to part 2 :)
I was in my late 20's when this show came out and I remember watching and just wanting to hug Rae and younger me. The feelings just came out and the whole abortion episode, I WAS PISSED OFF!! For Chole to treat Rae like shit even after everything happened.
I deeply love this show, i saw it for the very first time when it was coming out, by randomly watching channel 4 uk (i'm from Argentina so i had to fight my way into finding streams to watch the channel live). I got hooked and saw the entire first season.
The show came into my life at a point were i was feeling very low, struggling with my own mental health plus a whole bunch of family issues.
It truly helped me see things differently, including taking accountability for my own responsability in my self destruction, and it gave me hope and put me into gear, making better choices.
By the end of that year my life had done a full 180 and it has been uphill since then. I honestly cannot say enough good things about My Mad Fat Diary, it is sad that not many channels cover this show, thank you for this video!!
Thank you for this, this show is very special to me, I love your retrospective.
Sharon is amazing in this. truly a crazy beautiful performance
aw god so was Ian hart! really brilliant acting in this show for what it was
that was amazingggg and so well written. cant wait for part 2!
OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW
I loved this show when I was a teenager
This show was a godsend when I found it as teenager. Definitely a special show that doesn’t get enough love. Can’t wait for part 2
I remember finding this show randomly years ago and omfg I was so sad there wasn’t more when I finally got to the end and I’m so stoked this was recommended to me. Might just have to rewatch the entire show again for like the fourth time 😅 I related to Rae so much and I felt horrible about myself (being a teen girl was so fun, not) and it made me feel less alone. This show is why Champagne Supernova is one of my favorite songs 🥹🥹
i remember loving this show but never knowing exactly why. seeing it again with your amazing commentary made me realize why i resonated with it so much! thank u!!!
Great show, great video. Can’t wait for part 2!
I loved this series so much
Absolutely one of my favourite series ever! There's a show called 'everything now' on netflix that tries to do basically the same story as my mad fat diary and it falls so flat. Nothing can live up to my mad fat diary. Its so raw and real and intriguing. As a teen girl, we can really live through and relate to Rae, whos going through the same thinga as us.
I also really love that aspect of Rae always envying Chloe and wanting to be her, thinking shes the perfect person, but Chloe reversing that and thinking the same thing about Rae. How nothing is ever enough. And them maintaining their friendship even through all their fights and jealousy.
Additionally, the mother-daughter relationship. Same thing as above, how at the end of the day, they still love each other after every awful thing thats happened between them.
This show is everything to me. I rewatch it whenever things get bad.
Wow this has been one of my fave shows since it was first on TV and this is probably the best analysis I have seen on it. I really wasn’t expecting that from a non Brit as our TV, culture and humour is so different but you did an incredible job! Very interesting and well covered!
Would like to see your take on the other seasons.
Haven’t even got 5mins in but I’m commenting to say THANK YOU FOR COVERIBG THIS SHOW. I watched this show for the first time when I was like 14 I’m 17now and it’s still one of my all time fav shows. Literally one of the only shows who actually show a fat girl and the struggles they face along side more realistic portrayal of mental health. I love Rae earl gonna buy the books soon !
Such a great show. I had a much different experience re-watching this as an adult than when I was a teenager going through similar experiences with body image and self confidence. No show in the US really captured that for me. I thought Chloe was a terrible friend, but now I see they weren’t too different. Similar experiences on opposite sides of the spectrum. Currently rewatching on Hulu!! I remember watching it on UA-cam back in the day! Anyway, great video!
I loved this show! binge-watched it when I was like 21 and still it was soooo relatable
I loved this show and love this essay letting me relive it. Thanks for making this!
subscribed just for that rowling comment😂😂 and great video!
Watched this as an overweight teen and as a newly post partum mom. So comforting. So good both times.
I’ve just started watching the show, it’s so good. I hope you do a video on season 2 and season 3. Plus I’m a big fan of Jodie comer so when I found out she was in this show, I knew I had to watch
This was a fun video! I’d completely forgotten I watched this series as a kid. Looking back on it now, the friendship between Rae and Chloe is really well written, except I do think the fallout from the diary stuff should have been resolved differently.
When Rae gets the job in the record shop, it's a tiny little record shop I used to work in as a teenager. Didn't actually realise until I'd watched and saw them sitting at my desk
What an amazing show!!!!!!
Can’t wait for part 2!!!
This was so gooddddd
I kove this show so much but it's so heartbreaking to me. I wish the writing was stronger after season one and there were oroper conclusions and growth for the characters. I really wanted Rae and her friends and mom to have happy endings, because they felt so real to me. I just want them all to be healthy and happy.
I miss when british tv used to british tv, if that makes sense 😅
this show and PEN15 rewired my brain
I loved it when I was a teen, it helped me navigate that period with less paranoia about following societal expectations.
Loved this !!!
I remember watching the barbie movie and having a flashback of this show after seeing the actress who played Rae play one of the barbie's
i love this show with all my soul
This was the first show I ever saw where the fat character was allowed to have a sex drive and wasn’t insanely infantilized. I would be a horrible person- or honestly maybe a not alive person- had I not discovered this show at the exact right moment when I was 15. I couldn’t even tell you how I found it, I’m convinced the universe delivered it to me to save my actual life
Goated series omg 😭😭
Loved watching this video
23:54 Damn... I've just realised I have friends like that too. And my sister is one of them.
I never watched Mad Fat Diary, I was too young to be the target audience when it was originally airing, and I was put off immediately because of my own issues with my weight and appearance. Even watching this video I keep catching myself on some of the assumptions I make and internalise. Its nice to be able to learn what it was about and how it seems like its actually good representation of teenagers struggling with mental illness and issues with their weight. I probably won't ever watch the actual show, but I'm looking forward to part 2 :)
you should challenge yourself and at least watch the first episode
there were 3 seasons in total id love to hear your take on the final season and everyones growth
Loved this
loved this video
Amazing video
I love this show so much but it sucks how this is opening up how I didn’t see how bad of a friend of Chloe was omg! It was very slight but now I’m seeing it. Also every time I rewatch it, I stop watching after she breaks up with Finn :( I don’t like what she puts herself through with the other guy even though it’s just another way for how she feels about herself.
loveee this video omg! im barely through it but its great. i cant help thinking chloe doesnt see herself as a bad friend because she talks to rae the way she talks to herself. she thinks its normal to think like that...interestinggggg
*LincolnSHEER not SHIRE lmao. We're not hobbits here in England 😂. Despite that nitpick I loved this show. Rae was so me and I saw so much of myself in her. I even read the actual diaries this was based on and they're great.
If I'm already here, I have to ask , for the British folks- was Sharon's accent convincing?
For me it pretty much was, but im not from there😂
I'm British and the accent was very convincing to me
24:34 As a person who is attracted to both thin and big girls I can say that Rae looked 100% better in that dress
one of my faves!!! british shows are so much better and real
Someone make an edit of Rae and Chloe with girl so confusing already
i need that omg
Oooooooooh I clicked SO FAST
I think you would love pen15!
Minor note, but it's pronounced "lincoln-sheer" 😊
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in conclusion Chloe been a hater
LOUDAAAA