It takes guts to basically just show people having conversations for twenty minutes. Read more

The lessons in Ikoku Nikki don’t only go one way. Read more

I can apply many adjectives to Ikoku Nikki, and “unsparing” is definitely one of them. Read more

If someone were to ask me what this episode of Ikoku Nikki was about, I would – and could only – answer “Life”. Read more

One of the things about this ep and indeed this premise that’s most heartbreaking to me is that these are two people ill-suited to be in the relationship they’re in. Read more

Even by Ikoku Nikki standards this ep was seriously dense. Read more

This is a series I really want to be able to digest at leisure, because it’s dense as hell and just as deep. Read more

Everyone is a different person to every other person. Read more

Let’s not pretend it isn’t harder to love someone whose primary impact on our lives is making us uncomfortable. Read more