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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsT
o anyone reading who didn’t
watch Kate Garraway:
Caring for Derek, the next
couple of paragraphs might
read a bit mawkish, for
which I make no apologies. Those who
did watch the programme will
understand. Because it’s unlikely
there’ll be a TV moment this week
more moving than the one that came
at the start of the programme. After
374 days in hospital with Covid-19
Garraway’s husband, Derek Draper,was finally returning home and his
young son, Billy, was waiting for him,
excitedly explaining to us how he’d be
able to finish his Lego Death Star.
He’d been waiting all this time for Dad
to come home before completing it.
When Dad came through the door
in a wheelchair, beaming Billy gave
him a huge hug. So did his daughter,
Darcey, because neither of them feel
awkward around their terribly stricken
father; rather they are impressed that
he survived an ordeal that left him in a
coma and with damage to the brain.
There was a lot of love in this film, and
a lot of distressing admissions, too.
As a follow-up film to Finding Derek
last year, this was similarly candid,
extending even to talk of his chronic
constipation. Yet the intent of the film
was to show the realities of caring for
someone at home. In hospital all the
resources are there, but once such an
ill family member arrives home, you
have to work out how to reproduce
that. It’s not easy, often requiring you
to spend hours on the phone.
It’s not as if Draper is experiencing
some trajectory of improvement
either. Worryingly, Garraway feels that
her husband — whispering, frail,
helpless — is getting worse again in
some ways. In a startlingly honest
admission she said that “the person
who he is now is a stranger”. There
was no happy ending here, but he is
having trial therapy so there is hope.Bringing into the open the travails
that so many people face in caring for
the ill at home is something that
cannot be shown enough. In that
sense, Garraway is turning her family’s
situation into something of wider
value, which is a positive for them and
something to be applauded by us.
Now, what to make of Charlie
Brooker’s new interactive thing Cat
Burglar? It’s a spot-on homage to
Looney Tunes cartoons as well as... a
trivia game. Rowdy the cat is trying to
steal a painting, but it’s up to your
speed of thought to answer questions
with your remote to help him. “What’s
a suitable chore for a kid? Hanging out
washing, or hacking the Pentagon.”
Easy, but you’ve got to be quick!
As a pastiche of classic cartoons this
is a thing of beauty, with the screwball
music, the eyes coming out on stalks,
the hilarious ultraviolence. Brooker’s
authorial voice is detectable in the
quirky questions, but more implicitly
in the nerd-like affection for the genre.
But what starts off as frantic soon
becomes repetitive — less like telly to
be watched, more a game to be played
for, what, about 20 minutes? It seems
cosmically perverse that so much
ingenious work adds up to such a brief
diversion. But this TV review of such a
genre-bending innovation is starting to
look old-fashioned, so... that’s all folks!
A full review of Cat Burglar is on
digital editionsA startlingly honest look at the realities of care
ITVJames
Jackson
TV review
Cat Burglar
Netflix
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