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* FiveManBand: The main women.
** TheLeader: Anna, the protagonist.
** TheLancer: Louie, Jack's aunt and the only person with family loyalty to the brewery, but also the one with the most secrets.
** TheBigGuy: The hotheaded and more aggressive ButchLesbian Cat.
** TheSmartGuy: Nancy, who gets the idea of what to do with Lou's stolen equipment and [[spoiler:is also the blackmailer.]]
** TheCutie: Tish, the young and vulnerable one who was attacked by Jack and is protected by Cat.
* HatesTheirParent: Jack hates Arwel.
** TheLeader: Anna, the protagonist.
** TheLancer: Louie, Jack's aunt and the only person with family loyalty to the brewery, but also the one with the most secrets.
** TheBigGuy: The hotheaded and more aggressive ButchLesbian Cat.
** TheSmartGuy: Nancy, who gets the idea of what to do with Lou's stolen equipment and [[spoiler:is also the blackmailer.]]
** TheCutie: Tish, the young and vulnerable one who was attacked by Jack and is protected by Cat.
* HatesTheirParent: Jack hates Arwel.
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** TheLeader: Anna, the protagonist.
** TheLancer: Louie, Jack's aunt and the only person with family loyalty to the brewery, but also the one with the most secrets.
** TheBigGuy: The hotheaded and more aggressive ButchLesbian Cat.
** TheSmartGuy: Nancy, who gets the idea of what to do with Lou's stolen equipment and [[spoiler:is also the blackmailer.]]
** TheCutie: Tish, the young and vulnerable one who was attacked by Jack and is protected by Cat.
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* FamilyBusiness: The brewery was run by Arwel and Louie's father, inherited by Arwel, then given by Arwel to his own son Jack. It's stated to have been in their family for
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* FamilyBusiness: The brewery was run by Arwel and Louie's father, inherited by Arwel, then given by Arwel to his own son Jack. It's stated to have been in their family for a hundred years.
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* HereditarySuicide: Louie and Arwel's father hanged himself twenty-five years ago, apparently because he couldn't bear the guilt of having abused Arwel when he was younger. Arwel then committed suicide after his own son Jack's murder, either because the grief was too much or because he had also gone on to abuse Jack.
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* HereditarySuicide: Louie and Arwel's father hanged himself twenty-five years ago, apparently because he couldn't bear the guilt of having abused Arwel when he was younger. Arwel [[spoiler:Arwel then committed suicide after his own son Jack's murder, either because the grief was too much or because he had also gone on to abuse Jack.]]
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* TheChainOfHarm: [[spoiler:Louie and Arwel's father sexually abused Arwel for years. Arwel went on to abuse Jack. Jack took advantage of the teenage Tamsin and got her pregnant, and tried to rape Tish while high.]] They're so dysfunctional that it makes Louie a TokenGoodTeammate.
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* TheChainOfHarm: [[spoiler:Louie and Arwel's father sexually abused Arwel for years. Arwel went on to abuse Jack. Jack took advantage of the teenage Tamsin and got her pregnant, and tried to rape Tish while high. He also says that if Tamsin has his child, he'll ruin its life out of spite and self-hatred.]] They're so dysfunctional that it makes Louie a TokenGoodTeammate.
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* HereditarySuicide: Louie and Arwel's father hanged himself twenty-five years ago, apparently because he couldn't bear the guilt of having abused Arwel when he was younger. Arwel then committed suicide after his own son Jack's murder, either because the grief was too much or because he had also gone on to abuse Jack.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Arwel and Louie's father hanged himself because [[spoiler:he couldn't handle the guilt of having molested Arwel.]] [[spoiler:Arwel]] also commits suicide, after [[spoiler:Jack's death.]]
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* MamaBear: Anna is so protective of Tamsin that [[spoiler:she's about to falsely confess to protect her from prison.]]
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* HatesTheirParent: Jack hates Arwel.
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* OutDamnedSpot: Several allusions are made to this with Anna early on. [[spoiler: Played with; even though she's plagued with guilt, she's not actually the killer.]]
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler:Jack does this multiple times in a single speech to Tamsin. He tells her he [[HomePornMovie videoed them having sex]] and he'll spread it around unless she gets an abortion. When she says she doesn't care and she won't get an abortion, he tells her he can't wait to fire her mother...and that he'll use all his money and resources to make their child hate ''themselves'' and wish they were dead. These two things push Tamsin over the edge and cause her to kill him.]]
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* DeadlyPrank: Zigzagged. The women drunkenly prank Jack, but [[spoiler:then somebody comes back and suffocates him.]]
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* DeadlyPrank: Zigzagged. The women drunkenly prank Jack, but [[spoiler:then somebody Tamsin comes back and suffocates him.]] ]]
* EtTuBrute: Anna's reaction when she finds out that [[spoiler:Nancy is the blackmailer and stole £5,000 from her.]]
* EtTuBrute: Anna's reaction when she finds out that [[spoiler:Nancy is the blackmailer and stole £5,000 from her.]]
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* FamilyOfChoice: The five women, very much so. In the final episode, Nancy refers to them as her family and Louie takes on the brewery specifically for them, as a new family. She's especially shown taking on a surrogate mother role for the orphaned Cat.
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* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous whether Tamsin aborted her and Jack's baby.]]
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* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: Louie and Jack are both resolutely childless which is revealed in Louie's case to be because of her and Arwel's abusive father. Jack says he's so certain about never having kids that he'd prefer to [[spoiler:drive his and Tamsin's child to suicide.]]
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* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Nancy confesses to murder to save her goddaughter Tamsin.]]
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* TheChainOfHarms: [[spoiler:Louie and Arwel's father sexually abused Arwel for years. Arwel went on to abuse Jack. Jack took advantage of the teenage Tamsin and got her pregnant, and tried to rape Tish while high.]] They're so dysfunctional that it makes Louie a TokenGoodTeammate.
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* TheChainOfHarms: TheChainOfHarm: [[spoiler:Louie and Arwel's father sexually abused Arwel for years. Arwel went on to abuse Jack. Jack took advantage of the teenage Tamsin and got her pregnant, and tried to rape Tish while high.]] They're so dysfunctional that it makes Louie a TokenGoodTeammate.
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* AffablyEvil: Arwel is so damn nice that it's hard to understand why Jack hates him so much. [[spoiler:But he's also an abuser.]]
* TheAtoner: Nancy wants to atone for [[spoiler:being the blackmailer and taking the money from Anna. She does so by confessing to murder to spare Tamsin from prison.]]
* TheAtoner: Nancy wants to atone for [[spoiler:being the blackmailer and taking the money from Anna. She does so by confessing to murder to spare Tamsin from prison.]]
* BadBoss: Jack is verbally abusive to his entire staff and sexually harasses several of the women.
* TheChainOfHarms: [[spoiler:Louie and Arwel's father sexually abused Arwel for years. Arwel went on to abuse Jack. Jack took advantage of the teenage Tamsin and got her pregnant, and tried to rape Tish while high.]] They're so dysfunctional that it makes Louie a TokenGoodTeammate.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Tamsin escapes any punishment for killing Jack because Nancy takes the rap for her.]]
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* NoSuchThingAsHR: The brewery appears to have no [=HR=] at all. They might have been useful to sort out Jack's bullying of the entire workforce, groundless firing of several people, sexual harassment of Tish, and rampant drug use.
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* MorningSickness: Exaggerated. [[spoiler:Tamsin is sick at Jack's funeral and the next morning, which seems to be because she's hit the free bar hard. Actually, it's because she's pregnant.]]
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Tamsin]] is pregnant with [[spoiler:Jack's]] baby.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The brewery appears to have no [=HR=] at all. They might have been useful to sort out Jack's bullying of the entire workforce, groundless firing of several people, sexual harassment of Tish, and rampant druguse.use at work parties.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Tamsin]] is pregnant with [[spoiler:Jack's]] baby.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The brewery appears to have no [=HR=] at all. They might have been useful to sort out Jack's bullying of the entire workforce, groundless firing of several people, sexual harassment of Tish, and rampant drug
* ShipSinking: Nancy has a serious crush on the vicar until she sees him getting overly friendly with a girl at Jack's funeral. Their relationship remains as an AlmostKiss as a result.
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* TrueCompanions: Anna, Louie, Nancy, and Cat. [[spoiler:Nancy nearly gets thrown out after the revelation that she's the blackmailer who took thousands from Anna, but redeems herself by confessing for Tamsin.]]
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* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tosh is one to the broader all-white cast.
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* SisterhoodEliminatesCreep: What the women are going for - they only really "prank" Jack because he tried to rape Tish and they saved her. [[spoiler:They weren't expecting Tamsin to kill him.]]
* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-raceTosh Tish is one to the broader all-white cast.
* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Arwel and Louie's father, and Arwel to Jack as a result. Maybe.]]
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* AttemptedRape: Jack drunkenly bites Tosh and seems about to rape her before the other women interrupt him.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Anna and Max's daughter Tamsin is extremely aggressive and a heavy drinker to boot.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Anna and Max's daughter Tamsin is extremely aggressive and a heavy drinker to boot.
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* AttemptedRape: Jack drunkenly bites Tosh Tish and seems about to rape her before the other women interrupt him.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Anna and Max's daughter Tamsin is extremely aggressive and a heavy drinker to boot. [[spoiler:And a murderer.]]
* CopCriminalFamily: Anna's husband Max is a police officer, while she's trying to cover up her actions and being blackmailed. [[spoiler:Their daughter Tamsin is also Jack's killer.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Anna and Max's daughter Tamsin is extremely aggressive and a heavy drinker to boot. [[spoiler:And a murderer.]]
* CopCriminalFamily: Anna's husband Max is a police officer, while she's trying to cover up her actions and being blackmailed. [[spoiler:Their daughter Tamsin is also Jack's killer.]]
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* FiveFingerDiscount: The poor sister Louie is a kleptomaniac, and gets caught trying to steal a sweater.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: The poor sister Louie is a kleptomaniac, and gets caught trying to steal a sweater.
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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Arwel was abused by his and Louie's father, which leads her to suspect him of abusing Jack.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Arwel was abused by his and Louie's father, which leads her to suspect him of abusing Jack.]]
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The masculine Cat enters a relationship with feminine Tosh.Tish.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The brewery appears to have no [=HR=] at all. They might have been useful to sort out Jack's bullying of the entire workforce, groundless firing of several people, sexual harassment of Tish, and rampant drug use.
* NuclearFamily: Anna and Max, and their two kids, are a nuclear family, which stands in contrast to literally everyone else in the series.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Arwel was abused by his and Louie's father, which leads her to suspect him of abusingJack.Jack in the same way.]]
* NoSuchThingAsHR: The brewery appears to have no [=HR=] at all. They might have been useful to sort out Jack's bullying of the entire workforce, groundless firing of several people, sexual harassment of Tish, and rampant drug use.
* NuclearFamily: Anna and Max, and their two kids, are a nuclear family, which stands in contrast to literally everyone else in the series.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Arwel was abused by his and Louie's father, which leads her to suspect him of abusing
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* ActorAllusion: When Max is suggesting dark secrets Anna could find out about the brewery, he comes up with "who's on [[Series/BreakingBad crystal meth]]."
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* HatesTheirParent: Jack hates Arwel.
* FiveManBand: The main women.
** TheLeader: Anna, the protagonist.
** TheLancer: Louie, Jack's aunt and the only person with family loyalty to the brewery, but also the one with the most secrets.
** TheBigGuy: The hotheaded and more aggressive ButchLesbian Cat.
** TheSmartGuy: Nancy, who gets the idea of what to do with Lou's stolen equipment and [[spoiler:is also the blackmailer.]]
** TheChick: Tosh, the young and vulnerable one who was attacked by Jack and is protected by Cat.
* FiveManBand: The main women.
** TheLeader: Anna, the protagonist.
** TheLancer: Louie, Jack's aunt and the only person with family loyalty to the brewery, but also the one with the most secrets.
** TheBigGuy: The hotheaded and more aggressive ButchLesbian Cat.
** TheSmartGuy: Nancy, who gets the idea of what to do with Lou's stolen equipment and [[spoiler:is also the blackmailer.]]
** TheChick: Tosh, the young and vulnerable one who was attacked by Jack and is protected by Cat.
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* RichSiblingPoorSibling: The wealthy Arwel who owns the brewery and has a mansion as one of his multiple houses, and Lou, who is a kleptomaniac who lives in a tiny flat and can't pay the blackmailers £1,000.
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* RichSiblingPoorSibling: The wealthy Arwel who owns the brewery and has a mansion as one of his multiple houses, and Lou, who his sister Louie is a kleptomaniac who lives in a tiny flat and can't pay the blackmailers £1,000.
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* LetThePastBurn: Arwel burns Jack's belongings before the police can go through them.
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* RichSiblingPoorSibling: The wealthy Arwel who owns the brewery and has a mansion as one of his multiple houses, and Lou, who is a kleptomaniac who lives in a tiny flat and can't pay the blackmailers £1,000.
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* DeadlyPrank: Zigzagged.
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In an apparently sleepy Welsh town, during a work party, abusive and much-hated brewery boss Jack (Creator/AneurinBarnard) dies. A group of women who work for him, led by policeman's wife Anna (Creator/LauraFraser), are forced to cover up the circumstances of that night.
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In an apparently sleepy Welsh town, during a work party, abusive and much-hated brewery boss Jack (Creator/AneurinBarnard) dies.dies, having replaced his beloved (by everyone but him) father Arwel (Creator/EddieMarsan). A group of women who work for him, led by policeman's wife Anna (Creator/LauraFraser), are forced to cover up the circumstances of that night.
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* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tosh is one to the broader all-white cast.
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