Pick of the week
Slip
Zoe Lister-Jones is the creator and star of this seven-part oddball existential drama. Mae Cannon is a study in early midlife ennui. Approaching 40, she is bored of her long-term relationship and tired of waiting for some meaning to emerge from her life, which she compares to “a super-banal dream where nothing really happens”. But then something does start to happen: she has a one-night stand and finds that her orgasms open up portals to parallel lives she might have lived had different roads been taken. It’s a neat premise, exploring the universal human longing to discover how alternate versions of ourselves might have evolved, and it is realised with humour and heart.
ITVX, from Thursday 8 August
