Psychobitches - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Frances Barber and Mark Gatiss fight over diva status as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford; Selina Griffiths, Katy Brand and Sarah Solemani star as the squabbling Bronte sisters, while Julia Davis plays a less than cheery Sylvia Plath.
Episode 2
Steve Pemberton plays an unusually gruff Dian Fossey. Katy Brand's pork pie-munching Diana Dors is confronted by Sam Spiro's glamorous Marilyn Monroe, while Sharon Horgan gives her take on a brooding Virginia Woolf and a love-struck Cleopatra.
Episode 3
Liz Taylor devours a chocolate éclair before discussing her two marriages to Richard Burton. Meanwhile naturalist Joy Adamson speaks the language of the lion cubs she raised, filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl reflects on working with Adolf Hitler, Marie Curie suffers the consequences of overwork and Jack Whitehall makes a fleeting cameo appearance as Lady Diana Spencer.
Episode 4
Emmeline Pankhurst tells the therapist all about her working class Manchester roots, her spell in prison and the happiest time of her life on Fleetwood beach. An excitable Barbara Castle talks vividly about the sexual tension in politics and reveals her wildest fantasies. A vain Helen of Troy complete with a thick brummie accent, discusses being spoiled by men her entire life and laments the difficulties of being so pretty. Then a troubled Nancy Spungen performs a couple of lewd songs, Mary Queen of Scots proves incomprehensible with her thick Scottish accent, Eve talks, with great regret, about her sexual relationship with Adam, and Mary Shelley proves quite intimidating as she explains the plot of her latest novel, Frankenstein.
Episode 5
Kathy Burke reveal the secret behind Mona Lisa's smile and Mrs Alfred Hitchcock opens up about her lack of sexual relations with her film director husband. Julia Davis mimes her problems as silent movie star Mary Pickford while Catherine the Great worries that rumours of her many lovers will overshadow her legacy. Sarah Solemani also takes to the couch as Anne Frank and Zawe Ashton plays an Eartha Kitt, who fails to let go of her role as Catwoman in her later years.
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