TRUELOVE SERIES TRAILER
PLUS AIR DATE AT CHANNEL 4
Another new mini series that hits the small screens the first week of 2024 is TRUELOVE which will start on Channel 4 January 3rd! Lindsay Duncan, Clarke Peters, Karl Johnson, Peter Egan, play a gang of old
friends who, at the funeral of their friend, make a drunken pact: rather than let each other suffer a slow and dreadful decline, they will step in and engineer 
a dignified death. In short, they will help each other die when the time is right. Because that, they all agree, is a sign of Truelove. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into a shocking reality…
friends who, at the funeral of their friend, make a drunken pact: rather than let each other suffer a slow and dreadful decline, they will step in and engineer 
a dignified death. In short, they will help each other die when the time is right. Because that, they all agree, is a sign of Truelove. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into a shocking reality…
It's easier said than done...I certainly wouldn't help my friends to die, family, maybe.
ReplyDeleteIt is true, but they do seem to have a cunning plan. BBC had a two episode series last year with Martin Compston helping his best friend Tonny Curran to die after getting cancer, they did it in Switzerland in the end.
DeleteI just had this conversation with another vendor friend of mine. We are all for choosing to go out on our own terms. She’s 68 so I’d probably have to help her before she would have to help me, but she’s probably the only person in this world that I think I could hatch a plan with that would follow through for me. Jason and Allison say it’s my choice, but I think when it came time, they wouldn’t honor my wishes because they’d want me to stay for their own selfish reasons.
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DeleteDefinitely because they love me. But wanting someone to hold on longer than their time because it would be painful for you to let them go is selfish.
DeleteI think true love never quits. Often in the books I read a man will fight for his love till he dies, but ladies are like, oh, he is done and gone, let us continue with our lives. While a male hero will be sent to save her immediatelly, even if the mission is impossible, ladies will just take their time and let him rot in the enemy's lair. And that is promoted as a right behaviour to young teenage girls in them YA novels and also the chicklit.
DeleteThose YA books definitely don't help society for the better. Then again, for centuries it's been pushed on girls that they are the weaker sex and need a man to save them. Look at all those Disney movies where the prince always has to save the princess or help her on her quest. Both boys and girls have been taught that the man is for protecting the female and we need them to survive. Boys have been conditioned to be the hero and girls the damsel in distress. I've gotten into so many fights with my old bestie who always taught her daughter and tried to teach Allison that they didn't need to get an education, they just needed a sugar daddy. My girls were raised that they would depend on NO man for their survival. At the end of the day, we only have our self to save our self. And at the end of my life cycle, it will be MY choice how I choose to go out. I wouldn't want Jason to live more days in pain just because I'd want that extra time with him on earth. If he's ready to go, I have to do the right thing and accept that. I don't see that as giving up on him. I see that as a final act of love.
DeleteBut darling, even in those modern YA books it is the man who saves them in the end, girls take up swords but mostly they turn into a burden to the others who now not only have to fight the fight but have to keep an eye on them too. And when somebody needs to die to save others, it will never be a woman, no, it is always a man. Because the message in those books is that male life is less important and can be replaced. Why did women flee Ukraine while 18 year old boys were forced to stay if you do not need saving? And they were not forced to leave, they chose it themselves. It is modern times, they could have easily joined the army, but no... This is why I find extreme feminism funny, they want equal rights but not equal responsibilities.
DeleteI absolutely agree with you. The women should have, and some did, take up arms to defend their country. But it's like over here we see a different side of the coin. Men in Mexico and Ecuador and such leave the women and children behind and flood our borders. In Asian countries, how many baby girls are tossed into orphanages because girls are seen as disposable? Why are cows considered more important than women in some Indian cultures? Muslim women get stoned to death for not being fully covered. Again, it's society teaching women that we need men to be our saviors or rulers or God forbid we just won't make it in life. I do think modern feminism is a joke. I don't know how many woke women here scream for equality, but when it comes time to pay the price for said equality, ohhh, the system needs changed. However, I do think the shift is coming where women are starting to realize that we don't NEED men to save us or care for us. It's nice to have a partner to walk through life with, but we're perfectly capable of doing life on our own. That doesn't make men disposable, it just makes them unnecessary as we can handle our own messes without the interference. Those YA books can gtfo with the boy coming in to save the day all the time. Like the blonde idiots such as Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson encouraging our girls to be nitwits in the early 2000's because stupid girls were cool, it was a relief when that era ended. It will be a relief when YA authors stop making girls believe they need a male hero to step in and save the day. Those books can vanish with Hilton and the world will be a better place.
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