“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story” may be an old adage – but it’s never been more relevant. When major corporations are bosom buddies with news outlets and world leaders, when celebrities are protected from bad PR at all costs, when product is more important than people – who knows what’s real any more?
Optics, the new series written by Jenna Owen and Vic Zerbst (also known as comedy duo Freudian Nip) and Charles Firth, couldn’t be more timely. After the sudden death of the big boss at crisis management PR firm Fritz & Randell, two young female employees, Greta Goldman (Zerbst) and Nicole Kidman (Owen – and yes, that is the character’s name, in a gag that quickly wears thin) are given the top job in a move to shake up the company – or cover an impending PR disaster by a bit of diversity box-ticking.
