Slowly, surely, I’m regaining my reliable daily rhythm of walking, reading, practicing, studying. While things were a bit rough, though, the small screen distracted me well: the latest season of Only Murders in the Building, Law & Order, and Abbott Elementary, the uneven but charming English Teacher, the sordid Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and the first season of the dated but dear Murder, She Wrote. Kenneth Branagh never fails to delight me, so after rewatching his Henry V and Much Ado Nothing, I enjoyed Death on the Nile.

I tried to watch the film based on Banville’s The Sea, but despite a luminous Charlotte Rampal, it proved tedious. Perhaps it was too soon after reading the book? Speaking of which, it’s just about time for the discussion.