Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble reunite for a brilliant, darkly comic saga of celebrity and modern womanhood.
Save for a gig on sci-fi show about Nazi zombies, she’s largely out of the cultural conversation.
Is it better to make a public statement or stay silent?
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How can she get Cob to forgive her?
Piper gives an extraordinary performance.
“People don’t walk around wanting things,” she says.
“That’s not how it is at least not for women.”
Minutes later, though, she’s had enough of his self-important blather, and she decides to leave.
“Oh, okay, all right.
Well, f— you, man.
F— you.
Do you want me to sing it for you?
Shall I sing it?”
Reader, she does.
It’s a perfect modern TV moment: an instantly meme-able character breakthrough.
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