Power Lunch provides a short but sharp hour of what can best be described as a pseudo-psychological romp.

A chance meeting between a business man and a business woman in a restaurant quickly unravels a kind of collective neurosis, as power-relations and modern insecurities are played out with hyperbolic precision.

And it is not only gender roles which are challenged - once the waiter Dorothy and the waitress Donald join the couple, some serious role playing questions the very concept of definite gender-identity.

As you would expect from the writer of Six Feet Under and American Beauty, this is a stylish, darkly humorous and well-observed show, but at times it gets a little bit too hysterical and silly for its own good.