Roar

Matt Roush says...

Helen Reddy would be proud to know women are still roaring, and in this stylized eight-episode anthology—unlike most Apple series, they drop all at once for a binge experience—a diverse variety of stars appears in allegories of the female experience that sometimes skirt the edge of The Twilight Zone. Example: Executive producer Nicole Kidman stars opposite Judy Davis in “The Woman Who Ate Photographs,” about an Australian woman who copes with stressful family issues by devouring snapshots from old photo albums in a desperate attempt to hold on to the past. Insecure’s Issa Rae stars in “The Woman Who Disappeared,” about a successful Black author who heads to Hollywood and seems to lose her voice and identity when her memoir is co-opted by white executives. Other stars include Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, GLOW’s Betty Gilpin and Alison Brie in fables with titles like “The Woman Who Was Kept on a Shelf” and “The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder.”

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