Back to Life review – this darkly comic gem is an ideal Fleabag replacement

Daisy Haggard plays a thirtysomething ex-con moving back in with her parents in a show that, without a false note, moves deftly between grief and laughter

A few episodes into Back to Life, I felt like pushing it away in protest. “No, no!” I cried inwardly. “It’s too much! It’s too good! I’m still processing Fleabag and Home, and I haven’t sucked the juice out of Don’t Forget the Driver yet. I have to stagger my pleasures, lest I die of a surfeit of brilliance!”

This is a rare danger in a television-watcher’s life, despite sterling efforts from streaming services and the channels that are raising their game to keep up, but here we are. The six episodes of Back to Life (BBC One), starring Daisy Haggard and which she wrote with Laura Solon, are darkly flashing gems and the crowning achievement of their already impressive careers.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UPuw57