Taking place in a small karaoke booth, it follows a group of co-workers – all wearing fancy-dress, all harbouring secrets of their own – as they set out to celebrate the promotion of one of their own. Affairs are exposed, jobs are on the line, and the lyrics to most of the karaoke choices transform the entire thing into… well, into something not unlike a musical, actually.

And, without spoiling too much, the tender and authentic romance at the centre of it all gives us someone to actually root for. Which is no small thing in this dark and unsettling series, to be perfectly frank…

Inside No 9 is streaming on BBC iPlayer.

The Good Place: Whenever You’re Ready

On paper, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) and Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) are about as far away from soulmates as possible. And that’s the point of their story, really: self-confessed hot mess Eleanor is absolutely not supposed to be Chidi’s type on paper. Hell, a literal demon genuinely inflicts her upon the timid and indecisive philosophy professor to torment him in the afterlife (they’re in The Bad Place, remember?).

But here’s the thing: Chidi and Eleanor’s relationship evolves through multiple seasons of activity and reboots and experimentation. Because, through their partnership, The Good Place shows us love in all of its casual, wonderful forms: the love in friendship, the love in romance, the love in partnership, the love in education, the love in helping others, the love in growing together.

And, even in the very last episode, when Chidi says his final goodbye to Eleanor, he does so in a way that ensures his beloved companion will be able to handle the immense loss.

“Picture a wave in the ocean,” he tells her. “You can see it, measure it – its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. It’s there and you can see it and you know what it is. It’s a wave. And then it crashes on the shore, and it’s gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. That’s one conception of death for a Buddhist. The wave returns to the ocean – where it came from, and where it’s supposed to be.”

The Good Place is streaming on Netflix.

WandaVision: Previously On…

A superhero love story? Oh, you better believe it. This critically acclaimed series sees Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), and Vision (Paul Bettany) trying to live out an idealised life in a suburban neighbourhood of Westview.

When we last saw them in Avengers: Endgame, though, Vision was dead and Wanda was desperately struggling to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her beloved. And so, as it turns out, she has been using her supernatural powers to hold on to Vision as tight as she can.

She’s recreated him based on her own memories and the love they shared. She’s denied herself the chance to reconcile herself to her loss, preferring to lose herself in the fantasy of what might have been. And she’s idolised the man she adored, focusing solely on the good and the perfect, and losing sense of any of the flaws that made him… well, him.

The best moment in their doomed love story, though, came in the show’s penultimate episode, when Wanda and Vision sat down to discuss the realities of grief:

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