Background from Cash Carraway, creator, writer and executive producer

Background from Cash Carraway, creator, writer and executive producer:

 

I wanted to create a working-class protagonist who doesn’t die easily in her attempts to ‘rise to the top’ yet who is stunted by scrutiny, public ridicule, and gatekeepers due to her socio-economic status. Rain Dogs is your classic transformation story, only Costello Jones is trapped in circumstances where she’s not allowed to change. It isn’t autobiographical, but it definitely has firm roots in the chip on my shoulder!

The show centers around Costello’s ambition to be taken seriously as a writer so she can provide for her daughter Iris. But life's a commotion. Costello is estranged from her family. Iris’ father disappeared before she was born. The cost of living is high, and she can’t hustle the minimum wage, so she relies on her self-made family of Gloria, Lenny, and her soulmate Selby – a rich, gay, recidivist.

When writing the series, I was mindful to avoid politics and the social realist kitchen sink trope working-class stories are often forced into. Instead, I set it in an off-beat rom-com between Costello and Selby.  At its heart, Rain Dogs is a love story told from the gutter. 

Daisy May Cooper and Jack Farthing are iconic as Costello and Selby. Their chemistry is special. They play the flawed human heart with such beauty. I hope you will hate to love them, because even though they are fiction - they come from a very real place.