On the positive, Jessie Buckley as a raging, crass Irish free spirit was worthy of the watch by herself. She really carries the majority of the humour here, and it's nice to see she has comedic range outside of the usual dramas that I've seen her in. Colman gives a...predictable performance, but she still manages to command the work she's given with a delicate balance of whimsy, heart and a lick of malice that I couldn't see anyone else delivering. Taken at face value, this is a light, twee, foul-mouthed comedy that I'm sure will delight those that vibe with it's curse-heavy humour and overt British mannerisms.

Now to be negative, I still can't get over how this movie picks and chooses the social battles that it wants to approach, and I think that hurt my overall impression. Its ham-fisted handling of women's suffrage and the fight for female equality in the 1920s is stodgy enough, but the movie then choses to completely forgo the issues of racism or class inequality of the same time period for the sake of modern diverse casting and contemporary inclusivity. It doesn't quite settle with me that the film would go out of its way to make a period piece of this nature, but then so squarely focus on only one issue from said time period while abjectly ignoring, or even erasing, everything else.

While this personally took away from my enjoyment and softened the social message I think the movie was trying to command, I can see those just here for the comedy and the lead stars performances still having a good time.