\nI Hate Suzie Too is a perfect anti-Christmas special at Christmas time. It's only three episodes serving as the second season of Billie Piper's self-lacerating, intensely personal comedy-drama about a TV star going into a public and private meltdown. In season one, Suzie Pickles' career and personal life are blown up by a scandal. She will do anything to stay relevant, a celebrity in the public eye, and keep custody of her son after an ugly divorce from her embittered husband .
The show uses our knowledge of her own public history, plucked from drama school – or performing arts high school, as Americans would call it – at the age of fifteen to become a pop star, burned out and recovering from addiction by the time she was nineteen, considered a joke when she was cast as the companion in the revival of Doctor Who in 2004 when she was in her early twenties, only to surprise the entire nation by first proving she was a great actor and becoming a TV star in the process,...