Loveday Writing

This episode has Minx starting to rise and fall, and provides an insight into Joyce’s past. The episode kicks off with Joyce living in a hippy commune of some kind in Yonkers in 1968, three years before she meets Doug in the pilot. We see her collecting a handful of chicken eggs out of a coop, we then are brought

Despite things looking grim at the end of the previous episode, with the Woodbridge college protest ostensibly getting out of control, it actually leads to Minx finally becoming successful. The episode kicks off days after the end of the previous episode, with a television news report on the protest which includes a vox pop on Minx and quotes from an

Now that the first issue of Minx is out in the world, the team need to focus on a new problem to fix, sales, or rather lack thereof. The episode kicks off with Joyce going into a shop to see a copy of Minx on the magazine shelves (seeing and dismissing a copy of an erotic novel, Aphrodisia, on her

This episode took the show in a slightly different direction by exploring Doug’s connections to the mob, and a studio turf war at the Bottom Dollar office. Interestingly, the episode doesn’t kick off with the main characters, rather a family consisting of Vince, his wife, Francesca, and their two children having dinner. When Francesca tells Vince about big ticket items

This episode has the team hold their first press conference for Minx, Joyce and Shane hook up (and Joyce having to deal with the consequences that come with it), and Doug and Tina having to deal head on with Bottom Dollar’s financial problems. The episode begins with the team rehearsing the press conference with Joyce and Shane being subjected to

While Minx has only hit internal speed bumps so far, this time it’s faced with its first real-world obstacle with the arrival of a new local councilwoman. When Joyce arrives at work with boards for the first issue, she finds the police raiding the Bottom Dollar Publications’ office. When she asks one of the police officers what has happened, he

Now that the pilot has established the show’s settings and characters, the fun can really begin. This episode focuses on Doug and Joyce courting advertisers to bring in revenue for Minx, kicking off with Bambi on a photoshoot, posing as a school teacher at ‘Naughty Girl High’. Now that Joyce has inspired her, she is questioning the backstory of the

The job of a pilot is to establish a show’s premise and characters. This pilot did its job perfectly. We are introduced to Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) by a daydream she has of winning a Pulitzer Prize, giving a speech talking about how Gloria Steinem is her inspiration, only for Joyce (and us) to be brought back to reality when