Muse

What Muse is about

At the agency the new girl is only ever called the new girl. She is younger, she smiles too much, and she remembers everything. At the first shoot, in the tent on set, she shares the changing area with the better known of the two supermodels, who have lived together for years in a penthouse with glass walls. Ten minutes in, she knows which of the two she will take first. Muse is the story of that calculation. Episode 1, The Tent, is nothing but a conversation between two women getting changed, and yet it reveals how the new girl works: she watches, she waits, she says the one line.

In Campaign she lands the same job as the other flatmate, and the game starts over, with different means. Two Floors Down is the episode where the new girl moves into the building, two floors below the penthouse. From then on everything is close: the lift, the lobby, the glass front you can see into in the evenings. For a long time the two models suspect nothing about each other. They share a kitchen, a mirror and a secret that each of them thinks is hers alone.

An earring in the wrong flat brings it to light. The Earring is the episode where you hold your breath. Each Her Own is the conversation afterwards, and Nobody Leaves gives away with its title how the evening ends. Muse runs in the Taboo category because here three women cross a line they had drawn for themselves. The series shows it elegantly, with fashion, glass and city lights. No explicit images, but an ending all three choose together.