This week's TV: Nomadland is a masterpiece that sent me to bed with a smile on my face
Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
That dire Line of Duty finale has to be a turning point. Just because loads of people are talking about you on Twitter doesn’t make it right. The big reveal was a pedestrian cop-out, a fitting end for a tired old series. I don’t know about you, but I’d gladly swap a series that should have stopped after season 3 for 140 minutes of really good telly.
So we watched Nomadland on Disney+. I was wary because there was talk that its haul of Oscar awards was just virtue-signaling by the lefty luvvies in the movie industry, who got off on its theme of inequality and broken America. And yes, Frances McDormand’s character, Fern, ends up homeless and living in a camper van in her 60s, working minimum wage jobs to make ends meet. But that’s just the background.
