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The premise is that Suzie becomes victim to a celebrity nude photo hack – not just a violation any of us can fall prey to in the internet era, but the revelation of an affair. We watch the psyche-cracking fallout. Each episode plays with tone and is based on one of the stages of grief. (The Fear episode, with its creaking staircases and tilting camerawork, flirts with the horror genre.) The show is created by Piper and Lucy Prebble, a writer who can jump effortlessly from theatre (A Very Expensive Poison) to television (Succession), and it is clear the two are firm friends who volley dark j...

Highlights include doses of Covid comedy, documentaries about war and single mums, and a profound look at a life cut short In this year of years, the small screen became an even more important part of our cultural consumption. Thankfully, we're deep into the third golden era of television (or, depending on who you talk to, the second or fourth) so with us being spoiled for both quantity and quality, no one could ever claim that 'there's nothing on TV'. The past 12 months have featured everything from tiger kings to chess queens, idiosyncratic cops to happy ghosts, and here our TV Editor picks...

In a year driven by television shows with dynamic female characters behind the wheel ( I May Destroy You, The Queen’s Gambit), Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble’s I Hate Suzie holds its own. The show, currently streaming on HBO Max, was created by the duo, who met in 2007 while working together on the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The series was short-lived, but luckily for audiences, their friendship and working relationship was not. After doing the 2012 play The Effect together, Piper was keen on working with Prebble again, and sought endless ideas on which they could collabor...