Or Moments in Love, Chapters 1 - 5. This begins in a very chilly way, like Kubrick had lost his sense of humour and filmed it. Everything's in long, static wide angle shots, in 4x3, and this gives proceedings a very detached and remote feeling. In theory, it should be like John Ford, but it so isn't. We follow the decision of Lena Waithe and her girlfriend Naomi Ackie - living out in the country - to have a baby. Aziz is hardly in it, but it transpires that the fallout from the Bobby Cannavale storyline can't have been doing him any good as he's back living with his parents and new girlfriend.
Then we stick with the girls, who separate, episode 4 focusing entirely on Ackie and her decision to have IVF - a painful episode, good education for those wanting to go on the same journey. And then in an ironic ending, the couple are back together having an affair, whilst both married with children. The fixed camera and long takes style remains throughout, accompanied by countryside 'pretties' and classical songs.
Ackie's British, from the End of the F***ing World and Yardie.
Written by Aziz, Alan Yang and Lena Waithe, who I didn't realise also wrote Queen and Slim.
So, a massive departure in content and style, dry and not funny, quite successful. We loved Cordelia Blair as the nurse, a former actual palliative care nurse, who was only originally in one scene but had a part that was considerably expanded.
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