I Hate Suzie (TV Series) Acceptance (2020) User Reviews

Rewarding.

[W011y4m5 · 8/10 · 27 August 2020]

"I Hate Suzie" - despite marketing itself as some sort of comedy in the trailers on Sky - is actually much closer to a reflection of our own reality than it would have us believe & consequently, with three dimensional adult characters behaving in morally ambiguous (& yet wholly understandable) ways, inadvertently creating complex issues they're not fully able to fix - due to their flawed natures, the show concludes in a way which is true to form - believably.

In the real world Lucy Prebble mirrors with her fantastic writing, there are no good guys & bad guys, there are just people doing what they believe to be right or they're behaving in their own self interests because that's what they've been conditioned to do from a young age. Hence, nothing's black or white & neither are the solutions to the problems which have arisen in this series; they aren't fixed & not all all loose ends are neatly tied up satisfyingly because life isn't always like that. Sometimes, we don't always get the closure we'd like to think we deserve but (as the title suggests) we just have to find "acceptance" with what's occured & make the most of the hand we're dealt.

Watched it twice, would watch it again

[Pauliewalker5 · 9/10 · 20 September 2020]

Brilliant series. Well acted, written and directed. Believable, really funny and incredibly sad. I binged it without my wife but was more than happy to watch it all again with her.

Season One Review

[southdavid · 7/10 · 5 November 2020]

I'm going to take a gamble and review this as the first season of an ongoing show, although I'd think it's probably about 50/50 at the moment as to whether they feel there's anywhere else to go with the characters. It was a bravely-performed black comedy but occasionally to fond of a flight of fancy for my taste.

Suzie Pickles (Billie Piper) is a former teen singing star, who then transitioned into a role in a successful science fiction show and though stuck in genre roles since, has an opportunity for a Disney movie in her horizon. Her phone is hacked and photographs of her engaged in a sexual act are leaked onto the internet. Though her agent Naomi (Leila Farzad) is able to keep the photographs out of the papers, and people are generally supportive of the invasion of her privacy - her home life suffers as the person she's with in the photograph is not her husband, Cob (Daniel Ings).

I'm not sure where I thought the show was going to go, given the premise, but I was surprised by what the show turns into. It is, as I said above, a jet-black comedy, ostensibly about unhappiness. Unhappiness with the hand dealt to you, the life you chose, the way things have gone. The thing I imagine will be the strongest complaint against the show was, for me, it's biggest strength. The characters in this, pretty universally, but especially Suzie herself, are unlikable. They make bad choices, are self-destructive, passive aggressive, impassively aggressive, lie and hurt each other. It's a really bold central performance from Billie Piper to allow herself to look as, realistic I suppose, a human as she does here, especially given that Suzie's life reflects her own and she is the co-writer.

Sometimes though that realism rubbed up against the choices that the show makes. Dream sequences or a song routine felt out of place for me. It's very chaotic in it's opening episodes too, almost to anxiety inducing levels - though this does calm down as the show runs on. Indeed, across the board the second half is better than the first.

I understand the views of those that found it too much to take, but a few days after finishing it I'm still stuck thinking about some aspects of it and marvelling at the bravery of Billie Piper.

I love Billie Piper!

[tulipandthepirate · 10/10 · 2 February 2022]

I think the show was misnamed and should have been called I hate Cob or Cob is a bug eyed jerk! When he is bullying Suzie his facial expressions anger me, he is so unattractive when he gets all bug eyed telling Suzie how crap she is! Otherwise I like the show and would love to see Suzie's next chapter, maybe kick him out of her house and divorce Cob the jerk!