Flack: 5 fast facts from Season 1, Episode 4
By Mads Lennon
Things go sideways faster than anyone could have anticipated when Eve and Robyn try to save a cosmetic mogul’s career on the new episode of Flack.
Katherine Kelly guest starred in this week’s episode of Flack as the face of an organic cosmetics company. She preaches about the benefits of ascribing to a totally natural beauty regime but then goes and gets a face-lift procedure done on herself.
Unfortunately, she gets photographed in her bandages and is in need of a little PR assistance to ensure no one finds out about her plastic surgery, which would reflect badly on her company and reputation. How does Robyn shake out in salvaging Brooke’s career? Let’s take a look at five quick facts from “Brooke”.
1. The press creates a monster.
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Brooke, the client of the week, is already a hard woman to like. She is eager, too eager, to acquiesce to the PR scheme of selling a fake story about her husband beating her to cover up the face-lift she had and save her brand name from hypocritical ruin.
Initially, it appears the incident will blow over but when social media catches wind of the scandal, they all want to turn Brooke into an icon for battered wives around the world. Allison Reese, the cut-throat journalist (and ex-flame of Robyn’s) sniffs out the scoop. She is granted an interview with Brooke and Robyn makes the mistake of not being present during it.
Without Robyn’s watchful eye around, Reese is able to convince Brooke to press charges against her husband, who we know is innocent, he’ll wind up in jail and she’ll be labeled as a hero. It does save her career but at the cost of her own husband being arrested.
Brooke is cast in some pretty unsavory light as she willingly throws Jeremy under the bus — but so is this storyline which I honestly found hard to swallow (even in a satirical sense) given our current social climate. It felt like it was executed in poor taste, maybe just due to the timeliness.