TV Review: Watch Halston for Ewan McGregor — a master at work

The music and clothes are off the scale brilliant. (You don’t have to be into fashion to like this — it’s basically Mad Men with suede and cocaine)

Halston: Ewan McGregor excels as a designer in '70s New York

The less hype the better for a Netflix show these days. I didn’t have high hopes for Halston (Netflix) because people weren’t screaming about it on Twitter. It turns out that people who scream on Twitter aren’t the best judge of a good TV show.

Not that Halston is a good TV show. It’s miles better than that. The five-parter tells the story of an American designer called Halston who shot to worldwide fame in the 1970s and early 80s. The fact that no one remembers him now compared to his great rival Calvin Klein is a hint that it doesn’t exactly end well.