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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Revenge Club review – this starry divorce caper makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time

Meera Syal, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Douglas Henshall in The Revenge Club.
One for all hell … Meera Syal, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Douglas Henshall in The Revenge Club. Photograph: Gaumont/Paramout Global

Sometimes three-in-one type things are good. Phone chargers with lots of leads for all your devices that have stupidly different ports. Those woolly hats that cover your neck and lower face, so you look daft but are impregnable to winter cold. The Nars blusher stick that is also a lipstick and eyeshadow.

When it comes to dramas, however, it’s best to stick to one field of endeavour. The Revenge Club is a gallimaufry of tones, styles and performances. Watching it is like looking through a kaleidoscope that someone twists for you every few minutes; it’s fun but quite disorienting after a while.

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