Lecky joins the ranks of theater crossovers Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Coel with this musical drama about a struggling singer
—minus the novelty-track quirk—it reveals its protagonist’s interior world through original songs and musical numbers that unfold mostly in her imagination.
Though it’s easy to guess at Lecky’s influences, her natural, nuanced performance and Sasha’s depth of character ensure thatnever comes across as derivative. There’s no denying that Sasha can be narcissistic and defensive and arrogant, that she lies to get what she wants and lashes out when she doesn’t, that she wants to reap all the rewards that come with artistic achievement without putting in any of the requisite effort.
Yet Sasha’s latent capacity for growth comes through in her introspective music. Each episode is punctuated by eloquent, self-aware songs that straddle pop, R&B, and hip-hop. At a benefits office in London’s East End, she strikes up a jaunty tune that redirects bureaucrats’ open disdain for the poor at the do-nothing government employees themselves.
Lecky has an ear for the absurdities of spoken language in the age of the influencer, too. “This is a sponsored outfit,” Carly explains, straight-faced, to the stranger she recruits to photograph her and Sasha at the gym. As in real life, cynicism, hypocrisy, and performative positivity infect social media like a virus. Sasha’s sister Megan, who idolizes Carly, enthuses that “she doesn’t let anyone police her naked body.
If the show isn’t quite the same tour de force as Coel’s and Waller-Bridge’s debuts, blame the pacing.moves slowly in its first half, then rushes a resolution in the finale that hews a bit too closely to the prototypical tropes of the trauma plot. But the penultimate episode, a standalone psychological thriller set amid a harrowing “girls trip,” is as masterly an hour of TV as I’ve seen this year.
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