Flack TV Show with Anna Pacquin

[FloraFox]

This new TV show doesn't seem to have had much promotion or coverage in the press despite it featuring Oscar winning Anna Pacquin in a British comedy drama. No doubt this is partly because it's on the W channel, not a major channel.

After a few episodes I realised it doesn't meet the reverse Bechtel test - the main characters are all female (it's set in the female dominated PR world) and the male characters have few lines and particularly few speaking to other male characters. I have to say it was great to see a show with so many great female characters.

Thanks for mentioning this, had not heard of it. The piano is one of my all time fav movies and she was just exceptional. Thanks!!

The wonderful Sophie Okoneda is also in it.

I watching it but I didn’t think much of it to be honest.

I love Anna Pacquin as an actress, I tried to get into it and enjoy it but after watching the whole series I just feel very meh about it.

The problem with it is that none of the characters are likeable, you don’t get enough information about them to care about their overly dramatic lives and the storylines for the PR things are just a bit silly, it’s just a really disappointing series.

It was marketed as being the British Scandal, but I very much doubt it will get a second series.

I really liked it, although it probably loses feminism points because all the female characters are pretty horrible. Anna Pacquin’s boyfriend, on the other hand, is lovely and she doesn’t deserve him.

it probably loses feminism points because all the female characters are pretty horrible

I don't know about this. I think it scores feminism points by having unpleasant women who were not conforming to stereotypes of bad women - scheming for men. These women were flawed in a variety of different ways, like real people.

The problem with it is that none of the characters are likeable,

Do they have to be? I read an interview with Patricia Arquette about how great it was for her to play a character that was unlikeable, in Escape at Dannemora.