Showbiz | Celebrity NewsHeartfelt apologiesMarc Basset is an entertainingly flawed lead characterNina Caplan|Metro5 April 2012Rayner is The Observer's restaurant critic; not too hard then to see why a fantasy about a restaurant critic gaining worldwide importance (and lots of cash and good chocolate) might have appealed.Marc Basset's vitriolic reviews help drive a restaurateur to suicide; his apology is so heartfelt - and so enjoyable - that he winds up as the UN's Chief Apologist, saying sorry for everything from slavery to genocide.Rayner's details are good (especially the food) and Basset is an entertainingly flawed do-gooder, so the frivolous nature of the whole exercise is hard to mind.MORE ABOUTMassacreRestaurantsSlaveryUnited Nations