The Change (season two) ★★★★★

Bridget Christie, the creator, writer and star of The Change , has described her show as “science-fiction, magic realism, a western, a comedy, a tragedy”.

You could add “instructional aid for how to move through the world as a woman generally” because this series – BAFTA-nominated and now in its second season – is an education as much as it is funny, sad, idiosyncratic, dangerous, otherworldly and a great big kick in the teeth to misogyny.

Bridget Christie stars as Linda, who starts a new life in The Change.

The latter, done with subtlety, dark and ridiculous humour and a kind of plain-speaking poetic heft, is found in the story of Linda, a long-married woman having an existential crisis.

She left her boorish husband (Omid Djalili) and two teenage chil

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