BBCs Mistresses

It's not bad, the writing is ok, the acting is fine but it is very slow. Like some kind of relentless soviet behemoth that just keeps going, never ending, for the love of god it just goes on and on. It's just another in a long line of British dramas that feels ten times longer than it should be.
The problem is Sex and the City has already been made, and Atlantic crossovers are usually doomed from their foul, seedy, lazy conceptions. I'm sure the BBC get nice original scripts but they, like all channels, are lazy and money obsessed.
Also, why is it that the supposed 'cool' people in British drama always look like they've just stepped out of the 80s, the cringeworthy Dallas 80s.For example the sleazy PR boss telling his underling he wants her to be "working under him". I mean for fucks sake it's like our writers decided what was cool when they were children and they're going to stick with their misplaced faith in the Wall Street book of cool until the day they die.
Another problem is that with the BBCs ongoing desire to avoid seeming too Londoncentric the program looks like it's set in some kind of null space that could be the suburb of anywhere. All the sets are as bland as the costumes in an attempt to appeal to everyone, far from appealing it's just dull. In fact scratch the bit about it being fine, it's awful, lazy, predictable tripe that British channels need to stop making.