SOLOS
Only The Lonely
★★★
☆☆
UK/US Prime, streaming now
▶Creator David Weil
▶Cast Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie,
Morgan
Freeman,
Anne
Hathaway,
Anthony
Mackie,
Helen
Mirren,
Dan
Stevens,
Constance
Wu
EPISODES 1.01-1.07 Tailored both to dramatise the feelings of isolation and loss engendered by the pandemic, and facilitate Covidsafe production, this near-future anthology’s bite-sized instalments (varying from 21-32 minutes) mostly focus on single characters – though they’re rarely truly “alone”, with most interacting with computer voices, robotic doubles, or their future selves. As the settings are enclosed, in compensation the production design is often heavily stylised – there’s no particularly good reason for Anne Hathaway’s scientist, for example, to have scores of lightbulbs hanging down in her room. But hey, it does leak neat.