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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Glamorous review – Kim Cattrall looks absolutely bored out of her mind

Skin deep … Kim Cattrall as Madolyn and Miss Benny as her assistant Marco in Glamorous.
Skin deep … Kim Cattrall as Madolyn and Miss Benny as her assistant Marco in Glamorous. Photograph: Netflix

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.

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. 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. 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.

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