It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that we have seen many high-profile women treated like Cassandras: dubbed mad, bad, scary or sad for sharing their truths. Jameela Jamil, for example, has spoken out about how she was forced to deal with “false accusations” that she had made up her health problems and people “mocking [her] disability”.

She added: “Look at the way we treat women in the public eye […] look at Britney Spears, look at Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence, Greta Thunberg – we do this to every single prominent woman.

“When we don’t like a man we just don’t learn anything about him – we don’t learn his name. We don’t follow him on the internet, we just don’t care. When we don’t like a woman, we will investigate every single thing she’s ever said, ever done [and] scrutinise her obsessively. It’s really weird.”

It’s weird, sure, but it’s sadly all too true. And we are all guilty of it to some degree, as Kaos’s interpretation of Cassandra proves with her fleeting on-screen appearances. From the very get-go, we are given the chance to listen to her warnings, but instead we make a snap judgment based on her demeanour, her smudged mascara, her clothes and her penchant for cat food. In doing so, we miss out on a spoiler that proves later to be the key to the show’s plot – something which Covell and the show’s creators are banking on happening.

“Nobody wants to know!” cries Piper’s doomed character. “Why won’t anyone listen?”

It’s a question that all too many of us should be asking, quite frankly.

“Kaos is furiously funny, but its depiction of Cassandra feels tragically timely in 2024”