Chloë Sevigny caused controversy after she left Manchester, where the series was shot. She said the city was a "grim place", where it "rained every day" and that it was "full of chavs". She claimed that the place was very mainstream, "where they all go out wearing their huge fake Louboutins hoping to bag a footballer." She also stated that English cities were full of drunks and that there had been a "weird confrontational vibe" in the air ever since she visited London in the 1990s.