When friends and family don’t know what to say to you, TV shows dealing with loss, grief and other messy emotions are cathartic
“Grief is predictably unpredictable and relentlessly exhausting.” Ruth Negga and Daniel Levy star in recent Netflix release Good Grief. Graphic: Paula Dallaghan
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Grief is predictably unpredictable and relentlessly exhausting. A smell, a place, a song: almost anything can set off a wave of it and it only takes a tiny drip to tip the bucket. At the risk of sounding like a phrase-a-day calendar, I’ve always viewed grief as a tidal pool. Sometimes submerged, sometimes drained. Regardless, it’s always there. There are times, however, when conditions are ideal for “swimming”. But is there ever a right time to grieve?
The “right time” has always proved to be elusive for me — probably due, in part, to how we lost Mum. A whirlwind of illness and a needlessly traumatic passing that, despite the passage of time, still remains a tricky path for me to navigate.