Karl Puschmann: Bleak new comedy Back is painfully funny
11 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
4 minutes to read
The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
Karl Puschmann is a senior entertainment writer and columnist for the New Zealand Herald.karl.puschmann@nzherald.co.nz@CritiKarl
The boys of Peep Show are back. Or, more accurately, the boys of Peep Show are back in a brutally funny new series called Back. Usually when a new show gets the old gang back
We didn’t let social distancing stop us from a special Valentine’s Day couple’s photoshoot!
Thanks to the pandemic, I’ve been feeling touch-starved, so I got a little creative and came up with the perfect solution! All is fun and games… until two suitors show up!
The story: One day, you meet someone online who isn’t scared of your whack ideas; the next minute, you’re in a park meeting for the first time while tucking pool noodles in your shirts and flailing them around like you’re the tube man outside a car dealership.
And to top it off, you find out you live only like 7 minutes apart, and his work is right down the street from the second property you stay at in another town.
Frances and Steve Waltien To-day my thoughts wandered back to our evening together out on Smith s road on Saturday and I thought of holding you close to me and I could actually hear and feel you breathing. But I don t know what comes of all this thinking except pleasant memories of the past and a grim realization of the circumstances of the present. Excerpt from a letter to Frances O Brien from Steve Waltien, October 21, 1930, Saranac Lake, N.Y. Ali Waltien didn t expect much when she read the email s subject line: Grandparent Letters. A child life specialist at the University of Vermont Medical Center, she routinely coached her clients and their families through end-of-life work, including helping terminally ill patients write letters to loved ones.