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Rachel Griffiths stars as a rejected wife who starts her own brothel in a darkly comedic drama

Certificate: 15

One day, wife and mother Mack (Rachel Griffiths) comes home to discover that her husband Rob (Martin Henderson) has been sleeping with a sex worker. Mack’s response isn’t what you might expect – less anger, more shock into resignation and then pragmatism, and the consequences of that day are charted by a smartly scripted, darkly comedic ten-part drama from New Zealand – a country where sex work, we should note, is legal.

After seeing how the local ladies of the night are treated, Mack sets out to make lemonade from lemons by starting her own ethical brothel. She’s in need of a business idea – her family are quite deeply in debt and, apart from his philandering, her lazy ‘writer’ husband doesn’t seem likely to help with that deficit any time soon. And as for Mack’s new staff? Well, one of them may be familiar to her husband…

A show as much about the pragmatism and resourcefulness of women as it is about the idiocy of men, Madam manages to find an authentic path through the middle of such stereotypes that just feels like good, entertaining TV. (Ten episodes)