Blackeyes (1989)

The most divisive serial Potter made, and the only time he directed for television. Four 50-minute episodes on BBC2 from November to December 1989, adapted from his own novel, with Gina Bellman as a fashion model and Michael Gough as the elderly uncle who turns her life into a bestseller. It is a hall of mirrors about who gets to tell a woman's story and who profits, and most of the British press hated it; the Sunday Times summed it up as "Porno Twaddle." A few critics stood up for it, one calling it possibly his most original and honest work since Pennies from Heaven. Watch it once you know his style, and decide for yourself.