McKenzie is compelling as a mouthy twentysomething who talks people off the ledge. But the Stan TV series is neither as funny nor as sharp as it thinks it is
s an unhinged, despondent and possibly suicidal person well-placed to help others who are at risk – because they can relate to them? This challenging and arguably problematic idea bubbles away in Stan’s six-part series Totally Completely Fine, starring Thomasin McKenzie as an impertinent twentysomething who drinks, smokes dope, takes illicit substances and … inherits a waterfront property! The circumstances are sad: the house is bequeathed to McKenzie’s character Vivian by her recently passed...
We soon discover there’s tension between Vivian and her highly strung gay brother John , whose vegan food truck she recently burnt down after puffing on a bacon-flavoured vape. Her other brother Hendrix is more tolerant of her rowdy ways.McKenzie, who was excellent as the vacant-eyed, haunted protagonist of Edgar Wright’s time-bending thriller Last Night in Soho, imbues the lead role with a compelling, slightly dangerous and volatile energy, as if parts of her psyche could combust at any moment.