TV series

The Ice Cream Girls

2013 · 1 season

A sombre, slow-burning mystery that weighs heavily as it unearths painful secrets from a shared past.

Overview: In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged. In the present day, happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind... the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Trauma, memory, justice, guilt
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
memory
justice
guilt
identity
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong