The acting is so wooden and the script so stilted that it's hard to tell if it's actually very ironic, like something from a David Lynch film 25 years ago. The plot is threadbare: she gets a call from a literary agent so she moves to New York where she soon discovers there are darker things in town than slick businessmen. She's a children's novelist whose stories about the fantastical land of Oz are actually based on repressed childhood memories.
L Frank Baum has been retooled for the Harry Potter generation with this two-parter that follows the exploits of a grown-up Dorothy. To kick off the third series, CEO Jacqueline Gold sends her sister, deputy MD Vanessa, to toil incognito as a store assistant, equipped with a wig so awful one of her co-workers demands to know why she's wearing it. Jonathan Wright Undercover BossĪnn Summers is now so high street that you could well mistake it for a branch of Boots. This is brilliantly choreographed, risk-taking drama that dares you to go with it. And that's all before we've even mentioned the bit with the petrol. This is a series, after all, where the detective protagonist, who has lately been quarter-crucified by blackmailing gangsters, apparently thinks little of covering up a violent death. Sure, the brothers as role-playing mass murderers twist may be hoary, but within the context of Luther you hardly notice. The season finale kicks off with more dice-decided mayhem. A case in point: who knew that a real Mexican chilli has banana and apple in it? Former MasterChef winner Thomasina Miers has opened a number of her Wahaca restaurants in London, aimed at replicating Mexican street food, and here she imparts her zesty passion for the country's often surprising cuisine. Thanks to rather obvious proximity advantages, it's always been better done in the US, where it is far less frequently sidelined to themed restaurants where everything that comes from the kitchen is a shade of brown. Mexican food has never really been given its due in the UK.
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