Since her inception in 2023, the frazzled English woman has proven herself to be far more than a fleeting trend. Well, she’s been around for over 20 years, to begin with — best embodied by the ...

The woman we meet in the long opening pre-credit sequence of Mad About The Boy is frazzled, manic and, as we’ve seen Bridget before, given to long bouts on the sofa communing with a bottle of ...