sioned & maya

pobol y cwm

I was in the Welsh language TV show Pobol y Cwm but I was married to Colm Meaney (as Miles O'Brien from Star Trek). Our mission was to have as many babies as possible but I didn’t want to so I hid in a really ugly house.

I love you🥹🫶

hes so mecore

Concept for a hilarious and extremely chaotic but also excellent 2024 language goal: Watch Goenkale and Pobol y Cwm simultaneously

having feelings about my silly little soap operas is not what i signed up for

Todd Grimshaw kisses his girlfriend's brother in Coronation Street's first ever gay kiss, back in October 2003. It's kind of weird watching it back and seeing how stretching the definition of a kiss that liplock was - it was such a huge deal at the time!

Watched Y Golau/The Light in the Hall and really enjoyed it. Went for the English language version, but I’d like to watch it in Welsh sometime too. I remember S4C having double subtitles; maybe it’ll even help me with learning proper pronunciation in the process.

Have you watched anything of Maya x Sioned from the Welsh tv show pobol y cwm?

hi! no i haven't.. but i will check them out :)

[...] Speaking to WalesOnline ahead of the three-part series’ release, Callum said he was “incredibly proud” to be a part of telling the story of The Way. [...]

Callum added: “I think the role of the Driscoll family is to kind of mirror a real family because often the idea of the family in crisis is not a new one, but the heart of the show is this family and everything that happens around them. Making that as real and honest as possible was something that we all kind of set out to do.

“Michael was really passionate about doing that because the show lives and dies by the Driscoll family. One of the first things we did when we met was a series of improvisations about what it would have been like when Owen and Thea (Sophie Melville) were in school together, coming home from school, the dynamic between Owen and his mother – all these different scenes where things were fine. When we're going into those scenes when they’re not okay, it's a bit more complex and there's conflict there and a historical trauma to explore.”

The Way features a cast that is packed full of big Welsh names, including Steffan Rhodri (Steeltown Murders, Gavin and Stacey), Mali Harries (Keeping Faith, Hinterland), Sophie Melville (The Pact, Iphigenia In Splott) and Michael Sheen himself. Maja Laskowska (Trigonometry, Baptiste) plays a young woman caught up in the family’s escape. Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Pembrokeshire Murders) stars as Hogwood, a mercenary in pursuit of the Driscolls, with Tom Cullen (The Gold, Weekend), Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, The Diplomat), Mark Lewis Jones (Outlander, The Crown), Paul Rhys (Discovery of Witches, Chaplin), Erin Richards (The Crown, Gotham), Aneurin Barnard (The Catch, 1899), Catherine Ayers (The Light in the Hall, Keeping Faith), Patrick Baladi (Breeders, Line of Duty), Georgia Tennant (Staged, Doctor Who), Jonathan Nefydd (Pobol y Cwm, Grav), and Matthew Aubrey (Keeping Faith, World on Fire) all playing key roles across the three-parter. [...]

or Callum, the chance to work with Michael Sheen – who is shifting from in front of to behind the camera for The Way – was a dream come true. He said: “I've grown up watching Michael and have been inspired by him for so many years. He's in some of my favourite pieces of TV and film so growing up watching him and then being directed by him, and even just meeting him for my audition was just something that was so cool. He's a monolith of Welsh acting, film, television, theatre – all of it.

“He kind of represents the best of us, and getting to work with him was something that I felt very lucky to be doing. To be directed by him and to get to see him work every day on a piece like this that is so full of power and passion and fight and anger and everything else was something that I just loved every minute of it.” [...]

Got my ass beat at chaotic eight player Monopoly at a board game afternoon yesterday. They had the Wales-Cymru edition, which is extremely weird.

It's bilingual in English and Welsh, and features Welsh landmarks, which is cool. But almost every tile on the board is sponsored by a company. Instead of the waterworks there is a "communications" utility sponsored by Orange network, for example. One of the tiles isn't even a place, it's the TV show Pobol y Cwm.

There was also a funny typo on one of the chance cards. If you read it in English, the bank had to pay you £20. But if you read it in Welsh there was an extra zero and the bank had to pay you £200.

I looked it up this morning and found a delightfully ancient BBC web page about it from 1999.

sioned & maya

pobol y cwm

Watch 'pobol y cum' mate

Next time please spell it as Pobol y Cwm cause I thought you where suggesting a welsh porno

I can't believe pobol y Cwm have literally killed off two LGBTQ characters, one of them being my favourites😭, I'm heartbroken

My shoggoth is having a rant about the differences in class positioning of characters on Aussie, US and UK soaps. I mentioned Pobol y Cwm and he is demanding a summary of y'all's opinions therein. Also I read him one of your posts about it as an example, the one about the fake aneurysm, and where was the NHS when all this was going on?

Pobol y Cwm is weird on class, I think, because we don't really have much of an aristocracy in Welsh-language communities. The tension in Pobol y Cwm is between the working class and the middle class.

So the snobbish, richer characters are teachers and business owners. The salt-of-the-earth characters are generally more popular, and they work in the corner shop, the chip shop, the pub.

But then there's the farmers. Hard to know how to place farmers. They work long hours, but they also own a lot of land.

A typical story in Pobol y Cwm will be the tension between business owners and their minimum wage staff. So, e.g., a character being worked to death and not being allowed enough time to recover from an injury.

In terms of the NHS - hospitals on Pobol y Cwm are never explicitly NHS or private (though we assume they're all NHS). I can't think of stories explicitly about access to healthcare, but the relevant thing is that the valley of Cwmderi is a small town, and the nearest hospitals would be in larger towns/cities.

Listening to people from South Wales talk is like do I not speak Welsh or do I not speak *your* Welsh