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Pure is a British television series first broadcast on 30 January 2019 on Channel 4. Based on the book of the same name by Rose Cartwright, [1] [2] it stars Charly Clive as 24-year-old Marnie, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts. [3]
- Comedy Drama
Pure: With Charly Clive, Joe Cole, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Niamh Algar. Marnie is not OK. She's had x-rated thoughts for the last 3672 days and she doesn't know why or what they mean. When she jumps on a coach to London, she doesn't know a soul, not even herself, but in the city she will build a new life.
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- 2020-08-27
- Comedy, Drama
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Pure - Full Cast & Crew. Drama about a newly-elected pastor trapped into working for a cocaine-smuggling ring that operates within his closed Mennonite community.
- Ken Girotti
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Feb 12, 2019 · Amber – Niamh Algar. Channel 4 viewers will be no stranger to Algar’s presence on-screen having watched her in hit comedy-drama series The Bisexual. The Pure actor has also starred in BBC’s...
- 'I Was Terrified These Thoughts Defined Me' – Josie-Anne Searl, 25
- 'Pure OCD Has Caused Me Untold Shame, Pain and Suffering' – Michael P, 34
- 'Pure Is Challenging Outdated Misconceptions of OCD' – Catherine Benfield, 38
- 'I Went Through The Same Thing as Marnie: Sheer Disbelief' – Rich Evans, 33
- 'I Felt I Was Wrong For Having Intrusive Thoughts' – Finn, 21
- 'Talking About Intrusive Thoughts Is Still So taboo' – Sarah Barrett, 30
I’m 17 and self-diagnosed as ‘sick in the head’. Hunched over an A Level Psychology textbook, I’m triggered. From that moment, for four years, cue a barrage of unwanted and intrusive sexual thoughts about the worst things imaginable – children, incest, murders. I avoid the news, my family and check my body for arousal, terrified these thoughts defi...
For almost 20 years, I’ve suffered intrusive thoughts of a sexual nature about members of my family. This has caused me untold shame, pain and suffering. It was only a few years ago that I discovered I wasn’t a freak, that I suffered from a diagnosable medical condition – ‘Pure OCD’. Before that, I self-medicated with unhealthy amounts of alcohol a...
I have had OCD since childhood and as part of that have experienced intrusive thoughts about violent harm coming to my loved ones. Although in recovery now, in the past it has brought me to my knees. My experience with OCD gives me the ability to say with no uncertainty that Pure has managed to do something nothing else on TV up to this point has. ...
Pure on C4 immediately connected with me. I was diagnosed with Pure O last year but have had it for a long time. The most relatable moment for me on the show is in episode two where Marnie finds out for the first time that she has OCD. I went through the same thing, sheer disbelief: 'I’m not a messy person, I don’t need to switch lights on and off,...
Pure for me was something I thought I’d never see on TV. As someone with the same diagnosis as Marnie, it was so surreal to see but in the best way. I was diagnosed with OCD at 17 years old after experiencing symptoms like Marnie and like her, I felt I was wrong for having intrusive thoughts. I remember thinking “I can’t even explain what’s happeni...
Ever since I was a child I guessed there wasn’t something right with my brain. I’d get sudden unwanted thoughts about making a fool of myself in school assembly, while everyone was looking. At around ten years old I overheard a story about “devil worshippers” on the radio, and managed to convince myself within hours that I was probably one too, bec...
- Ellie Harrison
Pure is a British television series first broadcast on 30 January 2019 on Channel 4. Based on the book of the same name by Rose Cartwright, it stars Charly Clive as 24-year-old Marnie, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts.
Charly Clive plays Marnie. Who is Marnie? A 24-year-old woman from a small Scottish town who suffers from pure O, a form of obsessive compulsive disorder which manifests itself in intrusive...
