Our First Look at 'The Change' Season 2 Sees Linda Facing Consequences

Critically acclaimed Channel 4 comedy The Change arrived on BritBox last summer to relatively little fanfare. This isn't a huge surprise, given the glut of content we're asked to sift through daily, it's likely that many simply didn't hear enough about the show to wonder whether it was worth checking out. Now, as we enter a new year, it's time to fix that, because the series' second season is on its way.

The BAFTA-nominated comedy is particularly notable for its subject matter: Menopause. Not for the specifics or anything like that, mind, but the unique combination of emotions, fears, and triumphs that women in middle-age must face. Television, as a medium, tends to only value female stories if they involve pretty ingenues falling in love or sassy older women solving crimes in a picturesque village, so the fact that a show like The Change exists at all is something of a triumph. (We could use more of them, is what I'm saying.)

Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Bridget Christie (Ghosts) stars as Linda, a fiftysomething, working-class mother of two who undergoes something of an existential crisis when she realizes menopause is upon her. Packing up and setting of on the motorbike she hasn't ridden in several decades, she literally heads to thewoods to live deliberately. (Or, in the Forest of Dean, as it happens.) There, she encounters an array of bizarre locals who help her recalibrate her outlook on life and herself.