Apple’s ‘Roar’ is a feminist black mirror with Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae
nypost.compremiering Friday, April 15) is based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, and created by Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s (“GLOW”).
Each standalone episode features a big name — Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae, Alison Brie, Cynthia Erivo — in various tales that range in genres from magical realism to psychological horror.
The end result is a mixed bag of vignettes that don’t always feel cogent, but are never boring.The first episode, “The Woman Who Disappeared,” stars Rae as a woman who has written a hit memoir that’s become a book club staple.
She’s flown to Hollywood to take meetings about the prospect of adapting it into a movie. As her story unfolds and shows her experience as a black woman in Hollywood talking to a group of white male execs, it takes on a sci-fi bent and becomes increasingly surreal.Episodes are thankfully around 40 minutes or shorter, and tell concise stories without the extra padding that’s all-too-common among streaming shows.
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