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Fresh Meat
Overview
Six students — Vod Nordstrom, Oregon Shawcross, Josie Jones, Kingsley Owen, JP Pembersley, and Howard McGregor — are freshmen (save for second year Howard) at Manchester Medlock University. Having applied late to accommodation, they live in a shared, off-campus house in Whalley Range rather than the halls of residence.
Status
Ended
Created By
Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong
Network
Channel 4
Seasons & Episodes
Series 3
JP, Kingsley, Josie, Howard, Vod and Oregon are all back in Hartnell Avenue and raring to go. JP is promptly throwing himself, headfirst, into a second year ceremonial mission to sleep with a fresher; accompanied somewhat willingly but not altogether skilfully by his faithful wingman, Howard. Meanwhile, there’s a brand new housemate in the form of genuine fresher and smoking fine filly, Candice. Homeschooled and as yet unsullied by student-dom this first year is about to make an impact on the rest of the house, as they set out to show her just how cool they really are.
Episodes
Episode 1
Howard and JP try to coax some female freshers to join their dry-slope skiing society, while Vod's summer fling turns up unexpectedly. And the gang go to visit Josie in Southampton where she's now studying. But her traffic-light party creates a few problems for Kingsley.
Episode 2
Vod comes up with a plan to get rid of her holiday romance. Howard likes a girl but JP thinks she's out of his league, so he tries to poach her in order to restore the natural order of things.
Episode 3
Realising how serious Javier has become since their wedding, Vod tries to dump him, but it's not that simple...
Episode 4
Having been rejected by Sam for cheating in the quiz, JP makes it his mission to win her back.
Episode 5
Vod announces that her mum is coming to stay and, when she arrives, she is not what anybody expected.
Episode 6
The housemates get radical as they participate in a university sit-in which Oregon has organized to demonstrate against the forced deportation of a hot Tunisian guy.
Episode 7
Word gets out that it's Howard's birthday, and Candice insists they throw him a party. Unfortunately, not everyone sees the gathering in quite the same terms.
Episode 8
Following last week's party some relationships and friendships are on the rocks. Oregon battles it out against Vod in the Student Union elections. Josie and Kingsley reach an unusual arrangement to overcome their relationship issues. Howard realises that it's now or never with Candice.
Top Cast
Zawe Ashton
Violet 'Vod' Nordstrom
Charlotte Ritchie
Melissa 'Oregon' Shawcross
Kimberley Nixon
Josephine 'Josie' Jones
Joe Thomas
Kingsley Owen
Jack Whitehall
Jonathan 'JP' Pembersley
Greg McHugh
Howard McGregor
