'Flack' Season 2: A Recap of Robyn’s failure to get clean and disastrous self-sabotage patterns from Season 1
With the second season of the Anna Paquin starrer 'Flack' all set to premiere soon, it is time to look back on where we left Robyn (Anna Paquin), the PR fixer whose life went through a bender in the last season. The show began by portraying Robyn through the eyes of the newly joined intern Melody (Rebecca Benson). Robyn seems to have the perfect life on the surface. She is an American who works at one of the top PR firms in London.
Her boyfriend works as a doctor and is madly in love with Robyn. The two are even trying to have a baby. Her sister Ruth (Genevieve Angelson) also lives in London with her husband and two kids. Robyn often crashes at Ruth's apartment. She is always ahead of her clients who are always looking for someone to clean up after them. After years of working in the industry, Robyn has become adept had handling scandals.
Melody, however, is impressed after just looking at the surface. Once we begin to scratch the surface, Robyn's insides are twisted with multiple problems including thoughts of not wanting a child because she is worried that she might turn out just like her mother. Her work-life balance doesn't exist as she is called into work at all hours of the day. She bottles all of this up and her need for an outlet to express frustration is hidden by using drugs. She sniffs cocaine in between work and dinner appointments among other times and also doesn't find it problematic that she cheats on her boyfriend every chance she gets.
While speaking to a nurse in the first season, Robyn claims she is prone to self-sabotage and has never let anything be. This becomes clear the more we watched her over the six episodes of the first season. Robyn crosses a line with everyone she is close to in life currently. She hides the fact that Ruth's husband quit working, and while helping him deal with his crisis, the husband kisses her. He claims it was unintentional, but Robyn doesn't let it slide and confesses the truth to Ruth. Only she confessed it after Ruth found out that Robyn knew about her husband quitting work, but kept it from her.
She claims to be sober and clean, attends AA meetings and stays away from alcohol, but she has other vices. She lies about everything and that includes taking pills to avoid pregnancy. While her boyfriend Sam (Arinze Kene) is doing his best to try for a baby, she is doing her very best to avoid it altogether. She introduces one of her AA buddies to Eve despite being attracted to him herself. Tom and Eve initially hit it off, but he doesn't much vibe with Eve's attitude. So it isn't too long before the two of them end up cheating on their respective partners.
The first time the two of them end up together also happens to be when they get caught by both Eve and Sam. She also does a line of drugs with Tom, who had until that moment managed to stay clean. He fell off the wagon because of Robyn, so in that instant, Robyn ended up distancing herself from three very important people in her life.
When Robyn finds Melody in the throes of a bad trip after doing drugs, she fires Melody. You see, Melody tells Robyn that this was her way of showing Robyn that she could be just like her and succeed in the industry. So at the end of season 1, we see Robyn left with no one to stand by her side and in the second season, we will see Robyn deal with the consequences of her actions.
'Flack' Season 2 premieres March 13 and will air at 10 pm ET on Pop TV.