Flack is a British dramedy television series. The first season, starring Anna Paquin, premiered on 21 February 2019 and consisted of six episodes. On August 2, 2019, the series was renewed for a second season. It was scheduled to premiere on Pop in the U.S. on March 13, 2020, but was removed from the schedule after cutbacks by parent companyViacomCBS. In the UK, the show's website listed the second series as scheduled to run onW that March, before being changed to "Coming Soon". In late March 2020, the first season was made available through the video on demand platforms of Pop's sister networkShowtime in the United States, though a confirmation of the network airing the second season has not been made. In June 2020, it was announced that the series would move to Amazon Prime Video for its second season. The second season premiered in the UK on April 13, 2020, on W. and consists again of six episodes.
Premise
Robyn, an American PR executive living in London, must figure out how to make the best of bad situations and somehow manage to get out unscathed. Robyn specialises in clearing up the monumental messes caused by her hapless and selfish clients. Although utterly in command of her job, her personal life is spinning out of control.
Cast
Main
Anna Paquin as Robyn, an American publicist living and working in London.
Sophie Okonedo as Caroline, Head of Mills Paulson
Genevieve Angelson as Ruth, Robyn's sister.
Lydia Wilson as Eve, Robyn's best friend and colleague at Mills Paulson.
Rebecca Benson as Melody, an intern at Mills Paulson.
Arinze Kene as Sam, a nurse and Robyn's boyfriend.
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 63% with an average rating of 6.38/10, based on 16 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Audiences looking for an arsenic cookie of a series may cut Flack some slack, but its cynical take on publicity is exacerbated by hyperbolically unpleasant, underdeveloped characters." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 57 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."
