An immaculate social satire featuring scabrous character studies, a murder-mystery and a shocking revenge scene
) the pretty, privileged teen who has weaponised wokeness in order to burnish her untouchability when in a just world the hypocrisy should burn in her veins hard enough to kill her.
It was a tragicomedy or a hysterically funny drama that folded in every kind of comic moment, from alpha mum Nicole’s fretting over lumpen, screen-addicted scion Quinn because there’s never been a harder time to be a straight, white male, to Rachel’s giddily awful mother-in-law, to the simple joy of Armond’s scatological revenge in the finale.Above all it was a social satire, the luxury resort providing a picture of America in microcosm.
White’s show held up to the light the way class structures – perhaps enshrined most clearly in the increasingly emotionally exploitative relationship forced on spa therapist Belinda by Tanya – are embedded so deeply and so firmly entwined with racism that they seem almost invisible and immutable .
Add to these meaty themes a brilliant ensemble cast and a cracking good story, kept from slipping into soapiness by delicate dialogue and a firm hand on the narrative reins, and you felt rather like you’d been treated to a luxury holiday yourself. Special mention must go to’s hugely funny and in the end hugely moving performance as Armond, a recovering drug addict who had been clean for five years before the latest arrivals proved too much for him.
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