‘Why do we still idolise this mixed-up mess of contradictions?' the poor viewers are asked at the start of Becoming Frida Kahlo (BBC2). ‘And why can't we take our eyes off her?'
What follows are three hour-long episodes composed of footage of the famous face: the monobrow, the faint moustache, the unsmiling mouth, the black eyes boring straight through you and the hair wound round the Medusa head like a cobra.
Unoriginal to the last, borrows its title (about Jane Austen) and (about Elizabeth I) – and the biographies , , , , , and by Michelle Obama.
