Two films and a BBC series.

 Only The Animals or seules les betes, is a thriller interweaving the lives of the six protaganists, it's well worth watching and is available on Netflix. The Guardian review is here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/28/only-the-animals-review-dominik-moll-denis-menochet-laure-calamyThe film explores, amongst other things, aspects of 21st century sexual behaviour, lonliness, lust and loss in an intelligent, sometimes macabre manner. It is well worth your time, entertaining as well as thoughtful.

A WHITE, WHITE DAY has similarities, set in a similarly isolated community with harsh climate, there is a death also. But although this film also touches on human sexual behaviour it is more about grief and coming to terms with loss. It is a harder watch, interestingly filmed, I love the opening 10 minutes or so, but annoyingly, for me, suspends reality beyond my tolerance. Culturally, I'm fascinated by the prospect of Icelandic children growing up watching some seriously dubious TV, this cannot be real, can it? The Sight and Sound review is here - https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/white-white-day-review-grief-mist and the film is available free on BBC iPlayer.

Suspending reality is stock in trade for the Line of Duty crew and their new outing, Vigil, is similarly full of nonesense. There are some strong female roles and it is well performed, clearly no expense was spared in its production but it is pure tosh. If you accept from the beginning that it is fantasy then I guess it's watchable, but for me I've already wasted three hours of my life on this, no more. I have noticed with some BBC drama that people of colour are often portrayed as victims, incompetent or thoroughly bad. In the past I've made this point to the BBC (Silent Witness), their response "it's drama" is not acceptable but they will defend the indefensible, especially when they've spent a pile of dosh on it. This series is not as blatant, but subtle racism sits there (perhaps the black skipper will be the hero in the end but I somehow doubt it).