Our favorite all-female Muslim punk rock band is again — We Are Girl Elements is again with a second season on Channel 4 this week, and we couldn’t be extra excited.
Written, created, directed and govt produced by Nida Manzoor, the artistic drive behind final yr’s Well mannered Society, the present follows Girl Elements, a punk band decided to search out their footing within the British music scene.
The primary season, which aired on Channel 4 again in 2021 was a significant hit and an enormous crucial success. Now, three years later, the riotous, irreverent comedy is lastly again — and we will not wait to meet up with band.
Here is the whole lot we find out about We Are Girl Elements season 2.
What’s We Are Girl Elements season 2 about?
After the primary season noticed the woman band taking their music on the street, the second season is about to introduce a brand new drawback — a rival woman band. Naturally, Amina (Anjana Vasan) finds herself in her “villain period” in consequence.
As creator Nida Manzoor defined, the second season’s plot developed organically.
“I could not probably have arced it out for a number of collection from the start as that wouldn’t have felt true to the anarchic and spontaneous spirit of the present,” she stated. “Between collection one and two I made a movie, Well mannered Society, and received to develop as a filmmaker. After I got here again, I had so many concepts as a result of I might had that point for them to percolate so breaking the story truly got here very naturally. It felt natural and true to the characters. I used to be excited to delve deeper into every of the private journeys and to discover totally different themes with every character.”
She additionally teased, “In collection two, we see Amina battle between her outdated methods of individuals pleasing and her new want to be her personal particular person. We additionally discover Saira’s concept of success, and what it means to be creating artwork as a Muslim artist.”