Madolyn is unsure because, you see, Madolyn used to be a model and built her company out of nothing because “people told me I couldn’t” so, you know. Oh, I hope someone will teach him to open his mind and let go of the fear that is causing him to engage on such hostile terms with the world! Mummy’s boy – and director of sales – is keen for her to sell to a global beauty brand and make them both “ugly rich”. He is hated on sight by Madolyn’s musclebound jock son Chad (“I’m gay,” he tells Marco, looking his high-heeled lipglossed new colleague up and down in disgust, “but I’m not – gay.”). The first step might have been to cut at least 10 minutes from every episode and run it at the tight half-hour it is begging to be.Īs it is, Marco, who is presented as a sort of earthbound angel, ditzily picks his way through his first days and weeks at work.
Which would be fine if it captured the lightness and fun of any of its predecessors.
It is derivative, taking bits from Glee, Gossip Girl, The Devil Wears Prada, A Star Is Born and every wish-fulfilment fantasy in between. That’s what we needed: Cattrall returning to the screen in majestic form, showing us what she can do when unleashed from Samantha’s prime penis directive.Īlas, Glamorous is largely a bust. It would have been even better, of course, if Glamorous had been any good. The rumours and gossip have been tremendous fun – and the fact that Glamorous is dropping on the same day as the new series of And Just Like That is a nice twist of the knife by Netflix. She is said to be making an appearance at the end of season two, probably as the recipient of a phone call from Carrie or maybe in holographic form or some other manifestation that did not require her to be on set with any of her co-stars again. In non-factual terms, Glamorous is the thing Kim Cattrall chose to do instead of the first season of And Just Like That, the reboot of Sex and the City – the show that made her name but on which it seems her life was made a misery. Glamorous is, in mere factual terms, a new 10-part frothy drama from Netflix about a young, makeup-obsessed queer man called Marco ( Love, Victor’s Miss Benny), who lands the job of his dreams when beauty mogul Madolyn Addison (Kim Cattrall) plucks him out of mall-makeover obscurity and makes him her second assistant on the grounds that he and he alone knows what the modern customer wants.
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