Why Are You Like This? Pungently quirky, often blackly comic drama

https://youtu.be/Sw_iVa6bZgs

This was a really distinctive surprising little gem. Focusing on a disparate group of 20-year olds and their various traumas, it managed to deal with serious topics, particularly depression, in a quirky but thoughtfuly sympathetic way. The tone could change rapidly within a scene form fairly raucous comedy to a much darker mode, but this invariably worked well and convincingly and you did not have th impression that there was an awkward mix of comedy and serious topics – they each seemed to flow quite naturally out of the other which does not always happen. There was not the sense that you can get sometimes, that the writers were trying too hard to be different/unusual/quirky – but as a result they succeeded in both.

It will/would be good to see a second series.

The Innocent: A characteristically elaborate and tightly-plotted thriller from Harlan Coben

Gameboys: Level-up Edition. An online Philippine boy romance develops into something rather richer and more interesting.