I Hate Suzie Too review: Billie Piper’s desperate star returns with much more heart-Keith Watson-Entertainment – Metro

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Billie Piper can really dance. This much is clear from the bonkers opening sequence of I Hate Suzie Too in which she outmasks The Masked Singer performing a demented solo to Crystal Waters hit Gypsy Woman dressed up as a cat on acid. It rocks.

And it makes for a suitably off-kilter reintroduction to Suzie Pickles, the shamed pop star who went so hysterically off the rails in I Hate Suzie.

Every scandal-struck reality star rolled into one, Suzie saw her career, life and mental health hit the skids when ‘intimate’ images of her in a raunchy act went viral.

Where I Hate Suzie charted its anti-heroine’s decline and fall, this three-part sequel finds its hard-to-love but curiously compelling character picking up the pieces, fighting for custody of her son, rebuilding her career in the face of public antipathy and generally refusing to crumble when, with odds so stacked against her, it would be easier to simply crumble in a dark corner.

That we care at all about a character who is, on the face of it, irretrievably self-centred, is down to a nuanced performance from Piper who hints at just enough dawning self-awareness in Suzie to make us believe that maybe, just maybe, she’s not a completely lost cause.

Billie Piper can dance – like really dance (Picture: Tom Beard)

Along the way we get a gleeful hatchet job on the fleeting nature of fame and the weirdness of a reality TV world where nothing is real at all.

Suzie’s desperate efforts to worm her way back into the public’s affections via the horrors of celeb hoofing contest Dance Crazee hold a sharp mirror up to how damaging chasing fleeting fame can turn out to be.

Where I Hate Suzie was a horror show that revelled in its star’s misery, I Hate Suzie Too cuts much closer to the bone by giving Suzie heart.

All it needs now is for Billie to sign up for Strictly, fall prey to The Curse, and the blurred lines of reality will have vanished completely.

I Hate Suzie Too airs on Sky Atlantic tonight and will be available to stream on NOW.

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