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Review of Flowers on Netflix: a series written just for me…?

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I’ve just finished watching the final episode featuring Sharpe as the young Japanese character Shun, who comes to live in the bizarre world of the very British and quite mad Flowers family. And I have this distinct feeling that the series was written for me.

August 24, 2019 Blog, History, Japan, Japanese, Mental Illness, Netflix, Reviews

Review of Wine Country on Netflix: the perils of representing women over 50

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I usually get the Amy/Tina wit, but was royally disappointed with this one, actually pissed off that women can portray women as such one dimensional, mean, unattractive nobodies who have nothing to share but a disdain for millennials.

May 29, 2019 Blog, Feminism, Netflix, Reviews

Review of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix: self transformation you can’t see

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About five years ago, I KonMaried my underwear drawer and now all my knickers now maintain vertical integrity. And yes, I experience joy every time I open my drawer.

January 10, 2019 Blog, Feminism, Japan, Japanese American, Japanese Women, Netflix, Reviews

Chenille! It’s back, actually, it never went away in Japan

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This cute chenille hanky arrived from Japan today, thanks Yoko! The Japanese just have a different attitude to hankies than in the west…

December 28, 2018 Blog, Japan, Japanese

Review of SBS The Feed’s Sex in Japan: a new look at a disturbingly old problem

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I think Sex in Japan: Dying for Company is a compassionate and insightful look at today’s Japan. What I like most in this story is the reporting. Rather than talking to media savvy academics or commentators, The Feed team engage with ‘ordinary’ young Japanese.

September 29, 2018 Blog, Japan, Reviews

Review of Drama-Sutra by Nautanki Theatre: Indian and Chindian stories

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All our stories belong to all Australians. All our stories should have equal value. That’s why these three plays by South Asian diaspora playwrights Sonal Moore, Kevin Bathman and Roanna Gonsalves are so precious, and resonated with me.

May 4, 2018 Asian Australian, Blog, Food and Ethnicity, History, Literature, Radio, Reviews, Theatre

Review of GLOW Season 1 on Netflix: storytelling in the Trump era

Review of Glow Season 1 on Netflix
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GLOW is fabulous entertainment with crisp, witty dialogue and unexpectedly affecting poignant moments, like the emotionally intimate scenes between sleazy director Sam and the protagonist Ruth. Yet GLOW avoids being too earnestly up its own arse by being fun and just downright silly most of the time.

August 30, 2017 Blog, Netflix, Podcasts, Reviews

Review of Podcast Missing Richard Simmons: it’s no S-Town

Review of Missing Richard Simmons Podcast
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Unlike many of my esteemed radio producer colleagues, I really liked the 6 part podcast series Missing Richard Simmons by Dan Taberski.

April 16, 2017 Audio, Blog, Podcasts, Reviews

Netflixtherapy: or how the power of narrative saved me from depression

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Because all good narratives, no matter how black in theme or tone, are essentially about illuminating the human condition. And the blacker the story, the more it illuminates.

April 8, 2017 Literature, Netflix, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review of Star Sand by Roger Pulvers: simple, short, sweet, a little too starry

Review of Star Sand by Roger Pulvers
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Author Roger Pulvers is a polymath with a formidable list of achievements that after perusing, usually require a lie down with a cold cloth on my forehead. He is the kind of person we might refer to as ‘atama ga agaranai’, a person whose achievements are so humbling that you are compelled to bow down to them.

December 25, 2016 History, Japan, Japanese, Literature, Reviews

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