One good recent story is about the finale of the British series, Vicar of Dibley. It is a humorous series about a small village in central England, full of quirky characters, that gets a new vicar, a female one, back when that was still a major hubbub. Her character is a witty, sarcastic, passionate, opinionated, and occasionally goofy vicar. Played by comedian Dawn French, she is also not waifish. Nor has she been as far back as I have seen her career, but she does not make her weight the center of her comedy, she and this show have plenty of material to not have to rely on that as primary humor. Including dealing with small town politics, her attempts to update her services, the antics of her friends on the town council, etc. Did I mention her randy sense of humor.
As the series ends, she meets up with a fellow, who becomes smitten with her, so it looks like marriage is in the air.
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He falls in love with her at first sight. Which addresses a concern several of us have voiced: there are so many stories of ordinary-looking men with wives who look like supermodels, so where are all the stories of ordinary-looking women with gorgeous men falling for them?
Well, this is one, and the whole story including subplots is really funny and adorable, so I recommend it for all sorts of reasons aside from the fact that it dares to show a non-super-modelly middle-aged woman as worthy of true love and a traditionally hot younger guy as capable of looking right at her and loving what he sees. Without attempts to rationalize or explain it or make excuses. It just is. It’s treated as no more or less remarkable than any meeting of two people who fall in love.
Also, Dawn French jumping into a puddle so deep she completely disappears. Trust me: when you see it, you’ll understand why you needed to.
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