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'Flack' Is The Newest TV Drama Al About Celebrity Scandal

Emma Rosemurgey

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'Flack' Is The Newest TV Drama Al About Celebrity Scandal

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We'd be lying if we said we didn't find ourselves engrossed in a bit of celebrity scandal - whether it's the latest updates in the Tristan Thompson/Jordyn Woods "cheating" debacle or Lady Gaga's recent split. All a celebrity has to do is give someone a funny look and the whole world knows about it - but what about the real life scandals we don't hear about?

That's exactly what Robyn does - makes sure the press doesn't get hold of the latest premiership footballer's affair or the celeb health advocate's coke-fueled three-day bender. Robyn is an American woman working at a female-run London PR firm and she's also the lead protagonist in UKTV's new drama, Flack.

Played by Anna Paquin, Robyn is first introduced to us when she's giving CPR to a pro footballer's secret gay lover after they've enjoyed a heavy narcotic-fueled evening in a fancy hotel room. After narrowly avoiding having to call 999, Robyn revives her clients lover before ushering them a way and taking a hit of their coke.

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Next, Robyn is sent to deal with Anthony Henderson, a celebrity television chef and national treasure who has slept with near enough all the young women he's come across. In order to hide his debaucherous ways, Robyn decides to create sympathy for the chef by tricking his wife into getting a mammogram and leaking it to the press - painting him as the sympathetic husband to distract from the affair. Genius or absolutely awful? It's a thin line.

While scolding Henderson for claiming his actions wouldn't be commented on if he were a woman, Robyn gives him a lesson in what it's like to be a woman.

How "every male you encounter has the potential to rape and murder you, followed by a life of pre-sexualisation, catcalling and slut shaming that fills you with so much guilt and fear that when you're 16 and some kid starts choking you during sex, either with hands or his penis because he saw that in a bunch of porn, you assume that it must be you who got it wrong. So every time there's an inappropriate comment or a hand on your thigh, you swallow it."

Not only does Robyn have a hectic work life, but there's a hell of a lot going on in her personal life too as she faces challenges in her relationships outside of work.

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The programme covers some pretty deep subjects while simultaneously acting like some sort of parody PR company from the early 00s.

Flack launched on W at 9pm on 21st February.

Topics: TV News, TV Entertainment

Emma Rosemurgey
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