With the shift from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman having been completed and his business booming thanks to his representation of the infamous Salamanca family, life should be good but the presence of Howard Hamlin still looms and danger lurks around every corner for Kim. Common themes are present, that of the formation and mutability of identity, the delusion of the American Dream but injected with a wryness, subtlety and an all encompassing tragicomic feeling of dread. With Bob Odenkirk's elegiac performance that toggles between bitterly morose and darkly comic, Better Call Saul is not as overtly nihilistic as its parent show. What began as a prequel to Breaking Bad transformed into something entirely different. Tuesday, April 19th The end of Better Call Saul sees another popular American anti-hero shuffling off our screens. Rhea Seehorn in Better Call Saul Better Call Saul – Season 6 The billion dollar company seemed unstoppable until unsavoury practices, exclusionary marketing and discriminatory behaviour began to tarnish their once golden reputation. Their clothes and fragrances became a coveted status symbol, their shirtless male models a fantasy portrait of wealth and success. With its darkly lit, heavily scented stores that blared dance music, Abercrombie & Fitch acted as a kind of underage club for teens. The company was the byword in conventional, preppy clothing in the late 90s and Noughties. Netflix’s documentary White Hot focuses on the temple of all-American conformity Abercrombie & Fitch. With a Hulu docuseries investigating the greed and sleaze of the seminal Y2K street wear label Von Dutch and Vice's look at Dov Charney's seedy empire American Apparel, the fickle nature of fast fashion and conspicuous consumption perhaps best typifies the recklessness of late stage capitalism. Tuesday, April 19th After the surplus of scammer documentaries and dramas comes the examination of the unseemly side of the fashion industry. Rupert Friend in Anatomy of a Scandal White Hot : The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch When Whitehouse admits to an affair his beleaguered wife Sophie (Sienna Miller) prepares herself for the media onslaught but as new accusations dog the couple, the scandal moves from the tabloids to the courts, as a sexual assault allegation leaves Sophie questioning her relationship and her husband's morality.Īn anxiety ridden, pacy, paranoid series with flashes of Apple Tree Yard and The Undoing, Anatomy of a Scandal is the kind of gripping thriller that is engineered to have viewers querying the veracity of every character’s story. Set in the rarefied political world of Westminster, Anatomy of a Scandal unearths the secrets and lies of the life of high flying MP James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend). Hard Cell is almost an extension of Tate’s BBC show with the comedian playing an assortment of characters including Marco the warden and the prison’s ‘Top Dog’ the fearsome Big Viv.Ĭatherine Tate in Hard Cell Anatomy of a Scandalįriday, April 15th The latest flashy drama from Big Little Lies creator David E Kelley is based on the best selling novel by Sarah Vaughan. With her apathetic colleagues taking a cynical view of her artistic endeavours and the general indifference of the prisoners, Willis's dream of being the saviour of the institution seems impossible. Sparky governor Laura Willis (Tate) is desperately trying to rehabilitate the image of HMP Woldsley and impress the documentary makers, hatching a plan to stage a musical inside the prison. The mockumentary-style series follows the travails of the staff and inmates of a fictional women's prison. Not only have audiences been treated to The Nan Movie, a full-length caper film based on the irascible pensioner from her popular sketch show, there is also Hard Cell, her debut sitcom for Netflix. Tuesday, April 12th Noughties comedy star Catherine Tate is having a career resurgence this year.
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