Elizabeth Banks meditates in a dressing room with bottles in front of her in Skincare.
The Big Picture “This is a fictional story inspired by true events,” the screen warns before Skincare begins to play. This kind of semi-cheeky disclaimer continues to be a trend nowadays — The Great claims to be an “occasionally true” story, and Baby Reindeer warns that it’s a true story where “only the facts have been changed.” .
Things start to go downhill fast. It all starts when Hope notices a new neon sign across the street from her. She goes over to greet the owner, who she discovers is named Angel — and is a fellow celebrity esthetician. They two are immediately at passive-aggressive odds, which only becomes more tense after Hope’s email is hacked, with an absurd and sexually explicit message being sent out to her entire client list.
The script can’t decide if it wants to make Hope a delusional, manipulative girlboss or a helpless, airheaded damsel in distress, oscillating wildly between the two from scene to scene. One of the most baffling character choices involves a skeevy newscaster, Brett , trying to bribe Hope into giving him a blowjob to put her segment back on the air.
'Skincare' Doesn’t Know What It Wants to Be Skincare can’t figure out if it wants to be an edgy crime thriller or a heightened satirical dark comedy, and the space it ultimately ends up occupying is puzzling at best and downright offensive at worst.
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