Alfonso Cuarón’s easy-on-the-eye mystery seems like it was written on the back of a children’s menu – and forces A-listers to bounce off extras who sound like they have never uttered a sentence before

One of my favourite no-miss TV pitches is “What if this couple have a slightly difficult time in their marriage while inside an absolutely beautiful house?”.

The headlines for Disclaimer (from Friday, 11 October), the Apple TV+ show where a couple have a slightly difficult time in their marriage while inside an absolutely beautiful house, will focus on the big three hits: that Cate Blanchett is in it; that Alfonso Cuarón wrote and directed it, so it’s unnecessarily cinematic in a way that makes your throat tighten with its beauty; Kevin Kline’s astounding multi-age turn as a former teacher hellbent on an unusual kind of revenge. But what’s really important is: Blanchett’s icily middle-class Catherine Ravenscroft is married to Sacha Baron Cohen’s smugly foodie middle-class Robert Ravenscroft, and they are in a house, and that house is gorgeous.