What It Feels Like for a Girl (2025)

Series 1

To find yourself, sometimes you need to lose yourself. It's Y2K, and Byron's flirting with discovery and destruction, love and anarchy. Inspired by Paris Lees's raw, riotous memoir.

Released June 3, 2025 Episode 45 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.coming-of-age, tmdb.teen-drama, imdb.nottingham, imdb.early-2000s, imdb.based-on-memoir, imdb.england + 6 more, imdb.2000, imdb.male-protagonist, imdb.gay-teenager, imdb.east-midlands-england, imdb.gay-boy, imdb.transgender-protagonist

Production Companies: Hera Pictures

Network: BBC Three

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

IMDb 1915

8.2

/1251/

Trakt

/53/

TMDb

/11/

Letterboxd

4.2

/1488/

Tomatoes

100

/13/

Paris Lees
Director

Calam Lynch
Max

Ellis Howard
Byron

Hannah Walters
Mommar Joe

Laura Haddock
Lisa

Michael Socha
Steve

Laquarn Lewis
Lady Die

Hannah Jones
Sasha

Adam Ali
Dirty Damian

4.3

S1E1 - Episode 1

It’s the dawn of the new millennium, and rebellious teenager Byron is determined to escape their small town at any cost. They find their lifeline in the most unlikely of places.

June 3, 2025, midnight

3.8

S1E2 - Episode 2

Byron roams Nottingham in search of Max. They find belonging among a group of hedonistic misfits, but bad boy Liam threatens to throw everything up in the air.

June 3, 2025, midnight

4.6

S1E3 - Episode 3

Byron is pulled into Liam’s dangerous and intoxicating web, offering Byron a chance to reclaim power for themselves and make serious money in the process. But can Liam be trusted?

June 10, 2025, midnight

4.0

S1E4 - Episode 4

Buzzing from the encounter with Liam, Byron goes out on the town with The Divas.

June 10, 2025, midnight

2.8

S1E5 - Episode 5

The walls close in on Byron, sparking a drug-fuelled psychosis as a way to outrun their demons. But their grip on reality fractures, leaving them with nowhere left to run.

June 17, 2025, midnight