Your film or TV series recomendations (2021 and on TV binge)

Love Virgin River :slightly_smiling_face:

Just binge watched season 1 of ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ on Apple TV (comedy drama ) season 2 out soon. Was looking forward to season 2 of Hijack but three episodes in and IMHO not as good as the the first season.

Oh that’s disappointing :confused:

Zone of Interest is now on Channel 4 replay. Well worth watching - this is a review

Other awards-garlanded films may come and go, but this drama will inspire awestruck discussion for decades to come. Christian Friedel – unrecognisable from his role in The White Lotus – stars as Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz commandant who lived with his wife (Sandra Hüller) and children in an idyllic country home adjoining the notorious concentration camp. For the Höss family, domestic life continues as normal, while the screams of industrial-scale murder are often audible just over the garden wall. Jonathan Glazer’s film is an immersive historical drama, but it also makes chilling comment on our present moment, and humanity’s capacity to carry on as genocide takes place. Ellen E Jones

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In the same vein, Red Eye series two was good recently.

We’re loving “Shrinking” on Apple TV. Don’t quite know how/why but we never finished series 2 which we’re working through now before starting series 3.

The storyline is sparse and the dialogue is a wonderful mixture of sharp humour and deep poignancy and the two turn on a sixpence. Beautiful characterisations, especially Harrison Ford who only improves with age - crusty old psychotherapist with Parkinson’s and a heart of gold. All the other characters are rounded, quirky, easy to fall in love with and get exasperated with. We want them to succeed. (I hate many modern series where all the characters are ghastly - why would I care about them and want to watch their stories?)