Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

I’ve been on leave so I’ve had time for a bit more film and tv than usual.  This is my half time report…   God’s Creatures   I saw this at the proper cinema which was great for the cinematography on display with the wind blown seascapes.  A domestic drama set in a run down Irish fishing community where people don’t learn to swim because if they did they might be obliged to help anyone in trouble.  We get this nugget early on and it sums up the sort of place very succinctly.  A very slow burn which is all built around Emily Watson and Paul Mescal’s performances as a mother and son.  I love the choices that both of these actors make and their abilities to deliver such moral ambiguity in a compelling way.  This is a story about a sequence of tiny choices that turn out to have big and ultimately devastating impacts. This is particularly true for Watson’s character whose adoration for her son has blinded her to his faults but finds herself torn between...

(Some mild spoilers) I came to this series with absolutely no expectations apart from something along the lines of Walking Dead.   I never played the game that The Last of Us is based on because..... well I don't play computer games*.  I don't mind a zombie storyline but get bored if it is just new ways for zombies to come at the heroes for hours on end.    So, it was all a bit of an unknown.    If you have been in an internet free dungeon for the past 9 weeks, the plot is based around a human pandemic from a mutation of the fungus that in the real world turns ants into zombie.   The first episode was all a bit standard apocalyptic fare, but I liked the way the storyline with Joel and his daughter played out differently from the usual, and of course now that makes perfect sense.  From the second episode on, we are dumped into a world 20 years on from the outbreak, with plenty of flashbacks, sometimes taking up a whole episode. A quest to...