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Land Of Women review: Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria's in for a happy ending in this feelgood show, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Apple TV+ serial is ruthlessly calculated to make us smile as we well up with a touch of melancholy, while admiring the haute couture.
Half of all dramas still seem to start with a woman in a nightdress fleeing through a forest at night, to escape an unfaithful husband, a serial killer or a wildfire — the very antithesis of feelgood. She plays Gala, a tough but glamorous Manhattan cookie whose husband does a midnight flit to avoid the Mafia debt collectors chasing $15 million and both his kneecaps. Rather than hang around in New York to discuss repayment options, Gala also skips the country, with her teenage lesbian daughter, Kate (Victoria Bazua), and her slightly senile mother, Julia (Carmen Maura) .
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