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Last week, Tina cooked a recipe from English cookbook author, Mary McCartney, and started the classic book, Brideshead Revisited. Susan reviewed a book, The Good Material by Dolly Alderton, and a TV show, Prime Target.

Jenna Coleman’s picture on the thumbnail at BritBox is the reason that I picked The Jetty to watch. I first saw Coleman as the mysterious Clara Oswald on Doctor Who. I also loved her in a very different role, the title regal character in the series Victoria.

In The Jetty, Coleman plays yet another type of character — Ember Manning, a detective in a small town in northwest England. This is a short four-episode series.

The initial case is arson, but it may have a connection with an unsolved missing person case from when Ember was a teenager. We get to see the earlier story played out in flashback scenes.

The Jetty is a story that requires content warnings about murder and sexual abuse of young women. One of the characters is a podcaster who specializes in stories like that. She points out that most of her listeners are women. I liked this quote about why that is, and I think it applies to why we watch shows like The Jetty:

The women who listen to my podcast are frightened, but it’s our anger when united that has the power to become a tsunami, and it’s only when those waters rage that landscapes will change.

Stories that ask us to stand up and fight feel relevant in this moment.