#scott and bailey

[maiagaru]

[delightfullyvague]

scott & bailey | 1.01 surprise

watching your girl go in for the kill

[wowthesewomen]

[c0untry-mouse]

I was trying to participate in a tag game that I wasn't even tagged in and now I find myself distraught at my inability to find a gif of Nicola Walker - specifically as Helen Bartlett in Scott and Bailey.

We're all aware that I am an absolute simp for her but it was That Role - the absolute epitome of Wet Cat Woman - that broke me initially.

Damn me for being obsessed with pre-tumblr media....

[lonely-night]

2.03 “Pipe Dreams” & 3.03 “Thin Ice”

Gill winking at Rachel (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[amysilvas]

[featherxquill]

So I recently rewatched Scott & Bailey (possibly an exercise partly in egotism - what sent me down the rabbit hole was a comment on my own fic that got me rereading what I’d written then rewatching the show) and I am always reminded of a few things. One is how affirming it is to have women’s stories centered in a narrative, not pitted against each other, not perfect but trying their best to support each other. Two is how goddam beautiful Amelia Bullmore and her cheekbones are, and three is how much Julie Dodson means to me as a character. I actually find it kind of difficult to put into words how much. Like, her queer energy is huge, and I love her bluntness and her care, but I think the thing that lives in my soul is so much about the physicality Pippa Haywood brings to her. We see her curl in on herself occasionally - being vulnerable in front of Gill, when being interrogated by Karen Zalinski’s incisive questions, so she is absolutely human and real, and I think that makes the way she is so brazen and confident with her physical presence hit that much more. The 3 inch heels up on Gill’s desk, the sliding into her blazer during a walk and talk (thank both god and Jesus for that one), the flinging doors open and ‘no, that’s me’. She is so absolutely unapologetic about the space she takes up, and quite aside from anything else, as a fellow tall woman (and a larger woman in general) that is such an aspirational goal that she has taken up residence in my soul and I channel her whenever I can.

[bestsistertournament]

[girlonthelasttrain]

another Scott and Bailey jpeg that made me lose my shit last night......... if this show had been made this decade you just know Rachel would've texted "are we still friends 🥺" to Janet. Why is Rachel the personification of the wettest, hissiest feral kitten ever found in a back alley

[i-lovefandom]

DCI Gill Murray

[savycon63]

The many faces of Helen Bartlett.

[maiagaru]

excuse the watermarks and it has been pointed out numerous times before, but couldn't resist THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER

[delightfullyvague]

[wowthesewomen]

[miriam-heddy]

UK series Scott and Bailey (2011-2016) is soooo good! It’s Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988)!

[lonely-night]

GILL X RACHEL NATION WAKE TF UP