Matthew Jones

Boring, dreary, low-budget chamber piece about a dying woman, her emotionally vacant husband, and dysfunctional adult kids -- an apt metaphor for the state of the UK, and British cinema in particular. Booze, nose rings, new-age therapies, mixed-race kids, and foul language attempt to connect to a contemporary audience, but this degeneracy has a more sinister purpose -- to contrast with a saintly male African nurse in a hamfisted woke subtext. Like all actors “playing” cancer, Helen Mirren is unconvincing. She doesn’t look ill or sound ill. It's just Helen Mirren in a bed, groaning intermittently and relying on her reputation to carry the movie. By the end, it’s not June taking her last breath — it’s the viewer who really dies.

Utter woke nonsense, where all criminals are white and all nonwhites are virtuous, oppressed, misunderstood.and heroic. There's no point in watching more than one episode, because they're all formulaic and predictable. See one and you've seen them all.

Alternatively named "Janiyah Dindunuffin's Bad Day", a black woman is oppressed by literally everything and everyone from the moment her alarm clock wakes her up in the morning. Each awkward scene is a woke trope, and together they're more like a shopping list of leftist talking points than a movie plot. And yes, Janiyah really does say "I didn't do nothing!" But while mildly amusing, it's not enough to earn a second star.