Leslie Ash to return as Vanessa Lytton in Casualty after 11 years off-screen
Leslie Ash opens up about her big Casualty comeback, becoming a grandmother and the secret to her 33-year marriage – exclusively to OK!
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For one, the cult series was progressive and steered clear of the usual clichés popular in other sitcoms.
Friends was more than just a sitcom – it was pop culture.
Several examples underscore this point. For instance, it was a given from the start that Ross first wife was in a homosexual relationship. The women in the series have strong character traits – Monica starts her own catering business, and Phoebe has been independent since age 14 after her mother took her own life.
Rachel, who was initially a spoilt rich kid who lived off her parents, also learns to assert herself at work over the course of the series and steadily climbs the career ladder. This was a pretty progressive portrayal of women the 1990s, when feminism wasn t mainstream. As Chandler would say with his characteristic intonation, Could it BE more progressive?
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