🎬 Entertainment Apr 9, 2026 · Zoe Williams

‘I’m so glad they kept my acne in’: how a sparse, electrifying drama is reimagining a classic love story

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‘I’m so glad they kept my acne in’: how a sparse, electrifying drama is reimagining a classic love story
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Crime gangs, astonishing visual effects, the first acting role of rapper Loyle Carner … BBC drama Mint takes the plot of Romeo & Juliet and creates something uniqueMint, the new drama from Charlotte Regan, is so simple in concept it’s almost hard to make sense of. It’s a story of impossible love, between two people whose families are bitter crime rivals, so their romance simply cannot be. This is absolutely, brazenly Romeo and Juliet, the oldest love story in the world. How it comes to feel so o

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