.keeneTV reviews the charming, funny, foul-mouthed Frayed, an Australian tale of financial reckoning set in the 1980s -- now streaming on HBO Max:
, an uber rich Londonite, Simone goes into freefall when her husband dies suddenly. The circumstances of his death were revealing in all of the wrong ways; he waswith a prostitute and also had a cellphone up his bum. Considering that this is the 1980s and the size of cellphones at the time, well … you get the picture.
Though the series feels like it should be a half-hour comedy to start, its tone ultimately makes more sense as an hourlong drama.is funny, mostly in sophomoric ways , but it is at its best when it’s sincere. Still, Sammy, initially clothed in slip dresses from the 1960s she left behind because her luggage was lost, is humiliated at every turn.
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