![]() Cookie tries to start over by trying to distance herself from Lucious so she can find her true happiness while some flashbacks during each episodes reveals slowly how Lucious and Cookie got together when they were teenagers. In Season 3, the drama continues as Lucious keeps trying to pursue his musical legacy with his streaming service while being investigated by his half-brother/federal agent Tariq. But around the time of doing so, his ex-wife and the mother of all three of his sons, Cookie Lyon returned home after serving a 17-year prison sentence for drug dealing. ![]() He then decided to start grooming his three sons Andre, Jamal, and Hakeem as he will choose who will run his company, Empire Entertainment. We don’t yet know how Martin/Andrew got into this predicament, but the series – and the main character – have a lot of explaining to do.The show followed former drug dealer turned hip-hop mogul named Lucious Lyon, who learns that he has been diagonsed with ALS and only has three years left to live. The central difficulty of Bliss is the idea that it is possible to be a well-meaning, bumbling bigamist. God, I wish there were more restaurants.” As Martin/Andrew says when summing up his predicament: “Bristol – population almost half a million people. Above all, he has to live two lives in one small city. He manages to maintain a career as a successful travel writer without ever going anywhere (that may seem far-fetched, but it is not unheard of). His phone says “Boss” whenever the other wife rings it. Martin – or Andrew, as he is known at house No 2 – has a separate bag of car detritus for each family. He is only going as far as the car park, to swap vehicles, luggage and lives: Martin is driving straight back to Bristol, to his other family.Īs a comedy about bigamy, Bliss suddenly bristles with possibility – the mechanics of the week-on-week-off schedule are fascinating. He is not, it transpires, jetting to Bilbao to write a travel piece. They are clearly struggling with the day-to-day pressures of family life, despite an overarching contentment that is ultimately pretty irritating.Īll this changes when Martin bursts into tears on his way to the airport. Martin ( Stephen Mangan) and Kim ( Heather Graham) are a middle-class couple from Bristol with a precocious daughter and a kitchen in mid-refit, exchanging chirpy remarks while Martin prepares for a business trip. ![]() Underneath it all, it is a little too life-affirming for that.īliss (Sky1), on the other hand, is a black comedy with a sunny exterior. That is why “black comedy” is not quite right. Above all, it celebrates the simple dignity that comes with scraping the shit off your shoes and getting on with things. How do you poke fun at social workers without belittling social work? How can you send up absurdly liberal views of sex work without accidentally endorsing absurdly conservative ones? How do you explore the lighter side of the historical sexual abuse of children while still taking it seriously?ĭamned, thanks to the writers and the cast, has the intelligence and the generosity to allow its characters to be more than one thing, acknowledging the human capacity to embody several contradictory traits: overworked and lazy, spiteful and caring, hopeless and quietly heroic. It takes tremendous skill – not to mention nerve – to find humour in such resolutely unfunny subjects, but Damned manages to stay just the right side of a lot of blurry lines. This leads to what is possibly the funniest emergency child protection conference you will see on TV this year. The girl in the car relates to this week’s central social-work case, which is not as grim as it first appears – a sex worker is seeing clients at home while her children are there. ![]() He said he couldn’t sell it on because it was too effing S-H-one-T. “Is this the same foster kid that stole your microwave?” asks Nitin. Martin has secured a promotion, Nat still can’t work the phones, Al is still hapless, Nitin is still an arse, Rose (Brand) has arrived at work with shit on – and in – her shoe and Ingrid (Banks) is preparing to take on a foster child permanently. Beginning with a grim cold-opening – a young girl getting into a stranger’s car – Damned quickly reverts to business as usual. ![]()
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