Six Observations on “Six”

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Six is that rare high-concept show that actually pays off the promise of its concept. The pitch of “the six wives of Henry VIII but they’re also the Spice Girls” is one that’s simultaneously compelling and fraught with ways to irreparably screw it up.

That the show works at all is a marvel; that it works as well as it does just compounds that improbability.

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