Photo by Netflix The American “country club” has always been a bit of a blank in my mind. I’m familiar with phrases like “country-club Republican” – and from those I can tell it means a place where posh, established people hang out, and I’m pretty sure that the Philip Roth novella Goodbye, Columbus begins in a country club (you remember the scene, when Brenda alluringly asks Neil to hold her sunglasses as she dives into the pool). But when I try to picture it, I fill it with English things: croquet on the lawn, gin and tonics, thin sunshine. It is simplifying therefore to learn, courtesy of the second series of Beef , that an American country club is basically a massive resort complex for rich bastards to play golf in. And it makes a wonderful setting for a very 2020s television programme. The cultural historians of the future will not have to strain: our decade has seen a very fine profusion of television about nasty wealthy people and the servant class they mistreat, from Succession to The White Lotus .…