I Hate Suzie comes to us from Succession writer Lucy Prebble and former pop star Billie Piper, and it’s an interesting look at someone who …
I Hate Suzie comes to us from Succession writer Lucy Prebble and former pop star Billie Piper, and it’s an interesting look at someone who has been in the public eye for a long time, but not super-famous. She’s just famous enough, though, to get her phone hacked and have the photos that are downloaded ruin her life if they go public. It sure won’t be pretty, but how will Suzie Pickles (played by Piper) get her life back? Opening Shot: “Twenty years ago.” We see a girl singing during a TV talent contest a la Pop Idol. When a judge asks the girl her name, she says “Suzie Pickles”. The judge tells her that’s the last time someone will ask her that, because she’s going to be a star. The Gist: In the current day, Suzie (Billie Piper) is reasonably well-known, though she may not have the career she envisioned. She’s the star of a TV series, and she lives in a large but not ostentatious country house with her husband Cob Betterton (Daniel Ings) and their son Frank (Matthew Jordan-Caws). She’s just been offered a part as a Disney princess for a film where the princess is apparently pushing 40 (“That’s part of the joke,” she tells Cob). Everything seems to be going well. Then she sees a news report that a hacker has compromising photos of her that will be released that day, and she’s sent into a spiral. One problem: She not only scheduled her cleaning lady to come that day, but a photo shoot is scheduled for the exact same time. So, during a frenzy of activity, where the cleaning lady cleans around a massive crew bringing in equipment and props and a couple of big shaggy dogs, Suzie tries to keep her son off his tablet, and turns off her phone. But when her manager Naomi (Leila Farzad) calls with the news she already knows, she spirals some more, because she knows what photos are on her phone and prays that they won’t come out.
