'Annika' Builds a Few Bridges in Episode 4
In a change of pace, Annika begins not with a treatise on classic literature but on bridges. It might be a heavy-handed metaphor for this week's episode, but the point remains that Annika can only name three kinds of bridges out of six. (Beam, arch, and suspension; sorry to the truss, cantilever, and cable stay.) Perhaps she should stick to reading, as she recognizes an author by name, if not body, as the victim found on Kingley Bridge that inspired her lecture was Cara Gibson, a famous author.
Jake: I love bridges.
Annika: Lots of nice butresses.
Gibson is identified as a right-leaning Tory whose first hit book, Workshy, blamed the poor for their lack of money. It led to internet and TV fame, including Gibson's short-lived reality series giving "poor people makeovers" to pass them as landed gentry.) But in the last year, she ceased writing and was currently working by the hour at Glasgow University teaching English to first-year students, which sounds like a fitting end. She'd also been frequenting The Menagerie, which features house singer Evelyn Bailie (Aisha Toussaint), whose hit teen pop band Fix Me Up, was the subject of Gibson's follow-up book, the drugs-and-sex-expose Sour Note.
