I Wasn't a fan of series 1 of Our Girl, didn't like Lacy Turner as lead and didn't like the way the story progressed throughout the first series so when I heard it was coming back for a second season I was going to give it a miss until I heard Michelle Keegan was to take up the lead role so I decided to give it a chance and I am glad I did. Keegan knocks it out of the park and then some. Series 2 will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you like War drama's and high adrenaline rushes then Our Girl series 2 is for you.Keegan's performances have seriously surprised me transitioning from Soap to a Drama is never easy and she has something in her arsenal that Turner was missing. I love Our Girl now and will be watching every episode from now on. Eyes glued to set. Love it.

Since leaving EastEnders the actress best known as Stacey Slater tried other projects, and not really with much success, Switch was dull, only an appearance in Being Human was interesting, but this one off film was her chance to improve. Basically eighteen year old Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner) lives with her family, pregnant mother Belinda (Kerry Godliman) and father Dave (Sean Gallagher) and five siblings, in the London Borough of Newham in a crowded council house, but none of them seem to have any future ahead, and she has Albanian boyfriend Artan (Daniel Black) asking to marry her. When she turns eighteen she has a birthday night out to celebrate, she ends up drunk and being sick, and she finds herself outside the doorway of an army recruitment office with a life size image of an army girl, the next day she returns there to be part of the army, and soon enough she is at an army training centre undergoing physical and mental activities, including long runs, maths tests and presentations about herself. While doing this Molly finds that she can come clean about what a hard life she has had and she gains support from her fellow aspiring soldiers, and in an interview she asks to be given a chance because she has never had one, and as her training goes on she finds that she finally has a purpose, to become a soldier. She does inform her parents of this decision and career choice, while her mother is supportive her father doesn't want to know, but their girl continues on to become a professional soldier serving in Afghanistan, and in the end she writes a potential "letter from the grave", this is where her father does listen and finally is proud of her. Also starring Matthew McNulty as Cpl. Geddings, Andrew Scarborough as Sgt. Peters, Branwell Donaghey as Sergeant Adams, Paul Fox as Sgt. Lamont, Stuart Ward as Lance Corporal Brammer, Steven Miller as Corporal Leech, Harry Ferrier as Chris Ingrams, Mimi Keene as Jade Dawes, McKell Celaschi-David as Dean and Harriet Madeley as Nat. Turner gives a really good performance as the young girl trying to find her way in the world, and finding a determination to achieve something no matter how difficult, I initially watched the first few minutes and thought I was going to get bored, but I luckily stuck with it and it was an interesting youth based near coming-of-age story, a watchable drama. Very good!

Welcome to the 21st century military propaganda - this is it. The only purpose of this "film", is to get people to enlist in her majesty's army. A poorly written "rags to uniforms" story, that dwells slightly on religion biased and racist contents, culminating with the protagonist very happy with her trusty gun in her hand going after the Al-Qaeda scum of the earth - the most unlikely climax of all time - a girl in a war scenario, smiling, like her life isn't on the line. This is so obvious it hurts - everyone that contributed to the making of this brainwashing load of hogwash should be ashamed of themselves: they just helped putting more meat in the English war machine, and we all know what comes out the other side: coffins, crippled and/or deranged people, all in her majesty's name. Words can't describe.

To tell you the truth, I've never been much of a fan of Lacey Turner, from her East Enders days playing Stacey, although her character Molly is similar in ways to the character Stacey, Lacey's acting for me has improved and my mind's Been changed now I've watched this. She plays the lead role in this and quite rightly too, If you get the chance to watch Our Girl please do so, it was funny in parts but overall it was a gritty drama. Compelling viewing from start to finish. Great acting from the whole cast. I've read that there might be a full series of Our Girl, I hope this is true, there is enough scope for this to be made, I'm already looking forward to it.