Drifters

- Season 2

(2014)

Meg is not happy when her parents split and her father Frank moves into the flat, indulging in childish pranks with Mark whilst her mother Jenny has started dressing like a teen-ager. Fortunately the beautiful Scott from the next door flat is a trained counsellor and Meg enjoys their sessions together. Bunny is dating Benji, the banjo-player in folk group the New Harvesters and they write a song together whilst Laura has to look after Gary, in a wheelchair after she accidentally ran over him. Bunny invites everybody to the New Harvesters' gig, where Laura gets in for ...

The girls are having a bad day. Bunny wakes up with a guy only to discover she has been with his father, Gary's romantic proposal to Laura turns out to be that they move in together as he has spent her savings whilst Meg must watch Bunny shamelessly throw herself at Scott. She plans a girls' night in but Bunny and Laura get bored and suggest they play Truth or Dare, the dare being that Meg goes into Scott's flat and drinks his booze. Meg gets locked in and has to watch Scott on the toilet before he goes to bed with Bunny and Laura gets back with Gary. Meg ends up on ...

Determined to prove she is over Mark, who has a new girlfriend, Meg is persuaded to join the popular dating site BangR though when Laura finds Gary is using it she dumps him and gets a date of her own to make him jealous. They both turn up at a restaurant with their new partners and try to outdo each other but, unable to pay the bill, they escape and get back together. Bunny is rejected by a handsome doctor and goes to great lengths to see him, inducing an allergic reaction to strawberries, which wins her his bedside manner - until the unfortunate side effects kick in...

The glamorous Leia, whom Meg and Bunny met in India, comes to stay. Under the guise of political belief she is a free-loader who has the girls scavenging food from a supermarket bin but everybody is taken by her, except Meg, whose name she gets wrong - particularly Mark, with whom she starts having sex. Leia takes everybody to an illegal rave and when the police raid it Meg, aiming to outdo their visitor in outrageousness, impresses Leia. However Meg draws the line at a threesome with Leia and Mark and finally tells her what she thinks of her.

After his uncle Nige's Ukrainian bride-to-be dumps him - with the wedding already paid for - Gary steps into the breach and proposes to Lauren. She accepts and asks Meg to organize her hen night. Since it clashes with the romantic weekend Scott has arranged for them Meg holds the hen night in the same hotel but has to divide her attention between the girls and Scott. Eventually Scott finds out and leaves in disgust while Lauren calls the wedding off.

Lauren gets a job as a bar manageress, employing Bunny, whilst Meg goes to work for the charity HumanKind. Unfortunately her naivety lays her open to practical jokes from sexist colleague Alex, which almost gets her the sack when she believes his statement that their boss Rebecca is a drug addict. Happily Meg is very good with Rebecca's dog, which saves her and gets Alex the chop instead. Less happily when Meg has a slight mishap with the dog she resigns. Lauren is also fired for being drunk at work whilst Bunny is prosecuted for working and signing on.