The sleeper Amazon Prime Video comedy Flack exposes vile celebrity publicists
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Rebecca Benson, Anna Paquin and Lydia Wilson in Flack on Amazon Prime Video.Pop Media Group
In the year 2021, it is news to no one that celebrities do terrible things and that normal people do even worse things to become celebrities. But most people don’t typically see the professionals who clean up the mess, the crisis-managing publicists who pick the somber fonts for apology posts, manipulate the media narrative, and in the case of “Flack,” even fake sex tapes.
“Flack” premiered on British TV station W in 2019, then hopped the pond to the Pop network and finally landed on a service normal people can watch in late January (Amazon Prime). Played by Anna Paquin, the main character Robyn is a U.S. ex-pat working in London as a morally bankrupt public relations agent. The six-episode dark “dramedy” shows PR agents as omnipotent spin-masters, willing to go to any lengt
Thankfully Berlin lost the war, but the word flak lives on with a new and different meaning.
Today the word “flak” essentially means “strong criticism,” as in “I took a lot of flak” and while the word is commonly used today, few likely know of its origins, which actually date back to World War II and refer to a weapon designed by the Nazis. The concept of “taking flak” referred to anti-aircraft fire, but originally it was specific to one gun the German FLAK 36 88mm multi-purpose gun.
The versatile 88mm cannon was Nazi Germany’s main heavy anti-aircraft gun, also known as the Flugabwehrkanone (meaning “aircraft defense cannon”), which was soon shortened to “flak.” During the Second World War, instead of aiming directly at the aircraft, the German cannon was used to fire an 88mm projectile that exploded at altitude, sending out jagged metal fragment that were able to tear into the wings and fuselage of Allied aircraft, notably bombers. When an 88mm proje
A TV Grand Tour, in Time for the Weekend
A jam-packed itinerary of premieres includes France (“Call My Agent!”), Italy (“Gomorrah”), Israel (“Losing Alice”) and Britain (“Flack” and “The Sister”).
The Israeli series “Losing Alice,” starring Ayelet Zurer as a filmmaker caught in a tangled psychosexual web, is one of several acclaimed foreign shows arriving on American TV this week.Credit.Apple TV+
Even in these boom times for television imports, it’s an unusual bounty.
Five noteworthy international series, from Britain, France, Israel and Italy, are arriving on American streaming services in two days, all crowding onto the schedule this Thursday and Friday. Also of note: In contrast to any five American shows you might choose at random, they are all contemporary dramas set in recognizable everyday reality, with no superheroes or extraterrestrial bounty hunters, although one is focused on gangsters and another holds out the possibility that ghosts exist.
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Kim Kardashian receives flak for blackfishing
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In a video post on Twitter, the
Skims founder could be seen dressed to the nines in a brown outfit, however as she proceeded to strut her stuff her hand appeared to be of a much lighter colour than the rest of her body.
Fans were prompted to call her out, accusing her of blackfishing.
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