Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

 My favourite tv of the year,  following my rules which may not make sense to anyone else... Best Drama A lot of female led drama this year which is good news.   The Morning Show:  This show, produced and led by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, but with plenty of other women in leading roles, now in its fourth season.  It has been interesting from the start, taking on different real life topics from the perspective of a US news organisation, starting with Me Too, but also looking at the January 6 riots and the political state of the US nation alongside corporate intrigue.  This season was particularly interested in AI and technology, although there were multiple other subplots and sub-Succession style wheeling and dealing wrapped into this, which made the end result a bit messy as they tried to cram everything in.  This was the weakest season so far, but I will still be watching season 5. (AppleTV+) Film Club: This drama focuses on mental healt...

Murderbot . - this series continued to be both gripping and fun, and by the end with a suitably satisfying ending that leaves room for more.  I love the way Alexander Skarsgård plays Murderbot as seriously uptight but with swirling roboty emotions he doesn't know what to do with - that can be bleakly funny a lot of the time and sometimes it's just sweet.  I love the homages to schlocky sci-fi which is both explicit and also tucked away for us to trip over on occasions.  I have really enjoyed the character development of the hippie scientist group from Preservation Alliance who manage to be both insufferably righteous, and also lovably messed up and human, particularly the gruff and suspicious Gurathin (David Dastmalchian).  I have seen Noma Dumezweni who plays the leader Dr Ayda Mensah in smaller roles, so it's good to see her stretching her wings in a lead - she also has such a calming voice I would definitely follow her into whatever risky but ethical stance she wa...

Here are my notes from the telly I have been watching recently while hiding from the rain or heat.  I have already talked about Heartstopper elsewhere but there’s been a lot of other good stuff too.  I am still gripped by Ruth Wilson in The Woman in the Wall, but as it is being drip fed weekly the old fashioned way, I will have to be patient! Wolf This was a disorienting experience but well worth hanging on with fingernails if necessary, or possibly hiding behind a cushion if gory violence isn’t your thing.  There are three stories smashed together to make not necessarily a coherent whole, but certainly something worth watching! We have a classic noir type thriller where a detective is still trying to solve the disappearance of his brother when they were children.  Then there are the ‘Donkey Pitch’ murders of two teenagers years before - is the right man behind bars or still at large?  The third strand is a family (including Juliet Stevenson and Owen Teale) who...