Lou Harry

Brilliant. Compassionate Tenacious Unrelenting Fearless Brave Right I wish these words described the Canadian police, but like police around the world 🌍 , the police seem incapable of keeping women, women of colour and indigenous women safe from violence against men.

Brilliant !brilliant!! brilliant!!!

Intelligently scripted Intelligently directed Intelligently acted In this film The Women are seen The Women are heard Women’s lives matter

It’s very good. Also viciously truthful from the outset; exemplified in the scenes where the wife ( Natalie Portman ) has just had enough of being the wife - and the mother ( Moses Ingram ) realises that ‘she’ can’t escape her life however hard she tries to. These scenes feel surprisingly fresh as well as feeling a bit too real. And it’s why I think the show is supposed to be a bit depressing - in a challenging way. It feels like it’s challenging the viewer, not just if you’re a perpetrator of sexism, misogyny but if you’re a victim of it too. It might be set in 1966, but it’s asking the viewer, do you recognise anyone? Do you recognise yourself? For me, this story bravely captures that post war ‘pretence’ western societies emulated so well, ( and still does today ) that the family was/is the safest place for a girl or a woman; where she’s loved, cherished and most importantly protected; protected by the father, the husband, the brother - even the son… However this story understands that the family was never the safest place for us and still isn’t. The first two episodes are dark and relentless about the abuse we face from child hood to woman hood, how it lurks around every corner of society and if you miss it, well thank yourself lucky… but IT will get you. It will get you eventually, it’s just a matter of time - and it might be more than once. Though you won’t experience it from every man. We’re optimistically told this when Natalie Portman’s character meets a younger woman. It’s this relationship between these particular two women where they found their power and this helps them to fight their own battles. And fight back is what I think these women are going to do.

Great Australian drama on offer again. If you like depth to a story, you’ll find it here. If you like wonderful scenery, you’ll find it here. If you like strong inclusive women characters, you’ll also find them here. Read some really negative reviews, however, the worst look like they are from reviewers who may be daily GB news viewers….

Just on episode 3 - didn’t know what to expect at first - thought it might be worth a watch - it definitely was. It feels like an up to date version of the Whicker man… The female lead is great.

So good. I hope it gets picked up by a bigger streamer, so more people have access to it.

Brilliant Well done Sofia Coppola

I’ve seen better, but I’ve also seen much worse. None of the tv adaptations are any where near as good as the books they are based on, however, this one is at least watchable.

I went tonight with my mum And I’m going with my partner on Saturday and trying to get my grown up kids to see it too. It’s one of those films. When watching it there were moments you wanted to shout stop 🛑 and say , can we , can we just stop and discuss what we think happened in that scene. Were they trying to say …. And if so ****! Jennifer Hudson was so right to play Aretha Franklin , for many reasons. I felt She grew into becoming Aretha has Ri Ri grew into becoming Aretha. And I have to say if Renee zelweger can win an award for playing Judy , and she was good - then Jennifer Hudson should too. Let’s face it Angela Basset had her Oscar stolen from her. It’s a film for our time It’s a film about a struggle - struggles that resonate now It’s about individual struggles It’s about interconnecting struggles And it’s about one struggle teaching the other lessons and saying raise your game The fight for one justice cannot negate another. You can’t have black liberation without fighting for women’s liberation. Like the great Angela Davies wrote There can be no feminism without anti racism. Incredible story Incredible performances A film for our times