The protagonists represent different walks of life, and the episodes are visualised accordingly. The idea behind the show created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch ( GLOW) is to give them a voice so they can speak their truth with a full-throated roar - as the title sequence illustrates.Īnthology series come with a creative advantage: episodes can switch genre, mood and style as the writer, director or showrunner require. On a daily basis, the women in these stories, like their real-life counterparts, are forced to endure various forms of discrimination, from the insidious to the obvious.
Each episode of the Apple TV+ anthology series, based on the 2018 short story collection by Cecelia Ahern, sets up a scenario where a woman physically manifests the internalised distress over gender inequality. Things get real, literal, bizarre and fantastical across the eight half-hour episodes of Roar. A wannabe doctor is made to doubt herself by her toxic boyfriend, who happens to be a talking duck. A working mother of two becomes so consumed by guilt it starts to eat her from within. A model-turned-trophy wife is placed on a pedestal by her wealthy husband.
A Black writer feels voiceless and invisible in the presence of Hollywood's white male gatekeepers looking to adapt her book.
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