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Showtime’s Billions once made greed, revenge and awful people irresistible. Then Covid, cast upheaval and increasingly desperate plotting broke the spell.
Netflix’s Trust Me exposes the banal truth about cults
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The dark secret hidden in Hockney’s most famous painting
David Hockney’s sunlit masterpiece looks like an image of beauty and freedom. But look beyond the dazzling colours and something much darker emerges.