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Brides of Christ

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Brides of Christ	label	Brides of Christ
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Brides of Christ	comment	Brides of Christ is a 1991 ABC Australian miniseries set in a convent and a Catholic girls boarding school in Sydney in The '60s. It begins with two young women, Diane and Veronica, entering the convent of Santo Spirito and later becoming Sisters Catherine and Paul. Many of the issues of the time are brought up like Vatican II, contraception, The Vietnam War and teenage pregnancy.The series is based on an Ensemble Cast, with the six of the main characters each having an episode from their point of view. Diane/Sister Catherine: A feminist and Fiery Redhead. The first and last episodes are from her point of view where we see her begins the postulancy to become a nun and eventually leave due to her difference of opinion with the Catholic Church on contraception. Veronica/Sister Paul: An idealist who begins her postulancy alongside Diane. Leaves the convent temporarily when she falls in love with a rebel priest. Mother Ambrose: Mother Superior of the order, headmistress of the school and the Team Mom of the series. Often is in the middle of the nuns who want reform and change (such as Catherine) and the more conservative nuns (such as Agnes). Her point of view episode is centered around the Vatican II reforms and features their first lay teacher, a young male who forms a connection with her. Sister Agnes: A mild fundamentalist and strong traditionalist. She is most resistant to change and the main representative of the Moral Guardians. Often comes into conflict with with Catherine but she and Ambrose are true companions and Agnes fills in for her when Ambrose is away from the convent. Frances Heffernan: Played by Naomi Watts in one of her first roles. Her parents are amicably divorced and her point of view episode focuses on the effects of this and her mother's remarriage, despite the disapproval from the church and other parents. Rosemary Fitzgerald: A Hormone-Addled Teenager from a strict Catholic family. Her episode is about her awakening sexuality and her idolisation of Brigid's brother Dominic (played by Russell Crowe) and her between the morals she is taught at home and school and the growing freedom of The '60s. She is expelled at the end of the episode and in the next one is pregnant. Brigid Maloney: Brainy Brunette from a large Irish Catholic family. Friends with Rosemary and Frances, eventually decides to become a nun when she leaves school.
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Brides of Christ / int_1858696	type	One-Gender School
Brides of Christ / int_1858696	comment	One-Gender School: comes with the territory being a Catholic School run by nuns. Incidentally, one of the schools the series is filmed at is still a girls' school run by nuns.
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Brides of Christ / int_2241cc1e	type	Passing Notes in Class
Brides of Christ / int_2241cc1e	comment	Passing Notes in Class: Rosemary gets caught by Paul and eats her note.
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Brides of Christ / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
Brides of Christ / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Russell Crowe's character Dominic Maloney comes up for the national service, Draft Dodging is mentioned and it's implied that he's killed.
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Brides of Christ / int_31e44bb6	type	SourPrude
Brides of Christ / int_31e44bb6	comment	Sour Prude: Agnes, particularly when she gives the sex talk in episode 4.
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Brides of Christ / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Brides of Christ / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Rosemary and Bernadette.
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Brides of Christ / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Brides of Christ / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: This happens to Rosemary after she is expelled.
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Brides of Christ / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Brides of Christ / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Following the bridal ceremony, the new nuns have their hair cropped short.
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Brides of Christ / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
Brides of Christ / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: Brigid is told this, but she says her Latin isn't that good.
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Brides of Christ / int_4b9fa3a	type	Taking the Veil
Brides of Christ / int_4b9fa3a	comment	Taking the Veil: Shown in detail the the first episode with Diane, later Catherine. She's getting ready to be married but feels a true calling to become a nun. And later at the end of the series, Brigid.
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Brides of Christ / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Brides of Christ / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Paul and Jack almost have theirs but stop.
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Brides of Christ / int_5400ad8	type	Never Bareheaded
Brides of Christ / int_5400ad8	comment	Never Bareheaded: Sister Agnes's hair is always hidden under her habit, until their outfits are changes to ones which are more revealing. Her grey hair then shows, and she is mocked by the pupils.
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Brides of Christ / int_5f54a67b	type	Enter Stage Window
Brides of Christ / int_5f54a67b	comment	Enter Stage Window: Rosemary does this quite a bit to sneak out and see boys. She finally gets caught when she's helping her little sister.
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Brides of Christ / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Brides of Christ / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: Played for drama at the High-School Dance when Bernadette is caught with a guy on top of her.
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Brides of Christ / int_66cef86d	type	School Play
Brides of Christ / int_66cef86d	comment	School Play: The girls perform Twelfth Night in the second episode.
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Brides of Christ / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Brides of Christ / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The changes in the convent from Vatican II leads Philomena to this. Fortunately, she is found in time and retires from teaching to the convent's farm.
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Brides of Christ / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Brides of Christ / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: This happens unfairly to Frances and Brigid until Catherine saves them.
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Brides of Christ / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Brides of Christ / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The last episode follows this premise, with Catherine narrating how she left the convent.
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Brides of Christ / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Brides of Christ / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Include many of the tropes such as One-Gender School, midnight feasts, sneaking out and good and bad teachers.
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Brides of Christ / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Brides of Christ / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Rosemary decides to keep her baby, abortion never came up as an option as her other choice was to adopt it out. Averted with Brigid's mother Mary who brings on her own abortion, and it's not the first time she's done it.
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Brides of Christ / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Brides of Christ / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Played straight with the booth, the priest and the penances. The nuns also have their own public confessional which they do as a group and the senior nuns (Mother Ambrose and Sister Agnes) impose penances.
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Brides of Christ / int_93a17805	type	Marriage to a God
Brides of Christ / int_93a17805	comment	Marriage to a God: Well, duh!
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Brides of Christ / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Brides of Christ / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Sister Agnes makes the girls rule lines through several pages of Othello when Catherine points out a scene that refers to sex. And later when they are rehearsing Twelfth Night , Frances' recently-divorced mother offers to help, but they shut her out.
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Brides of Christ / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Brides of Christ / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: When the nuns take religious names, they choose a saint of either gender. So while there is Sister Catherine and Sister Agnes, we also get Sister Paul, Sister Patrick and Mother Ambrose.
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Brides of Christ / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Brides of Christ / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jack Delahunty, and unfortunately in a rather nasty way. This leads to his break up with Paul.
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Brides of Christ / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Brides of Christ / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Jack explains to Paul that the men in the seminary were allowed to go out and see women, just to keep it quiet. When Paul says that the women weren't allowed to do that, Jack says women aren't supposed to like it.
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Brides of Christ / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
Brides of Christ / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: Paul and Jack during their brief courtship.
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Brides of Christ / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Brides of Christ / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Rosemary, she ends up expelled and pregnant.
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Brides of Christ / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Brides of Christ / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Sister Patrick, who gambles and dies on Melbourne Cup Day as her horse come in first. Paul says later she could see Patrick stealing St Peter's field glasses in heaven to watch the races.
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Brides of Christ / int_e2abcbfd	type	Turbulent Priest
Brides of Christ / int_e2abcbfd	comment	Turbulent Priest: Jack Delahunty again. This eventually leads him to resign.
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Brides of Christ / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
Brides of Christ / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: Jack Delahunty, Paul falls in love with him and temporarily leaves the convent.
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Brides of Christ / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
Brides of Christ / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Rosemary is caught giving one to her little sister, then when her mother complains Rosemary reminds her that her mother never gave her the talk at all.
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Brides of Christ / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Brides of Christ / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Sister Agnes is a milder version of this, she holds fast to the traditions of old when they start to slip away after Vatican II, and she did set one of the postulates to recite the entire Litany of the Virgin which lead to her breakdown and leaving.
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Brides of Christ / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
Brides of Christ / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Sister Agnes.
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Brides of Christ / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Brides of Christ / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Who else but Mother Ambrose.
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Brides of Christ / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Brides of Christ / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Ambrose asks Diane in the first episode if she has a problem with saints beginning with "A". At the end of her speech in the final episode she dedicates her book to "St Anselm, all the philosophers and a few others beginning with 'A'".
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Brides of Christ / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Brides of Christ / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: This is perhaps one of the best examples of Pre and Post-Vatican II Catholicism. Diane and Veronica's postulancy and later their novitiate as Catherine and Paul are depicted in great detail. The same goes with the masses that are shown throughout the series, starting in Latin, then a mixture of Latin and English and then finally only in English.
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