WHAT WE’RE LOVING

this month A mixed bag this month – in the best possible way! Some of us are entertaining in style, others are pampering themselves or just enjoying a spot of edutaining…

Everyday art

I love when Mr Price Home collaborates with local artists. Their latest range is a celebration of a South African Christmas and features the work of Michael Chandler: think intricate blackand-white drawings with splashes of gold. Only some of the items are festively themed, and even then the nod to Christmas is very subtle, so you can use these all year round. They’re doing cork placemats, tea towels, dinner plates (R199,99 for a set of four), side plates, scatter cushions and gift packaging. In stores from 10

October. – Liesl

DEAD FUNNY

Jen is angry. Scrap that. She is pissed off. With pretty much everyone: people who drive too fast, her well-meaning neighbours, her grief counsellor, her meddling mother-in-law, her dead husband and the local police, who have yet to find the person who killed her husband in a hit-and-run. In fact, when Netflix voiced their concern about the main character of the show being ‘too angry’ and ‘unlikable’, Dead to Me’s creator Liz Feldman went right ahead and dialled Jen’s anger up to an 11.

It paid off. Jen’s blistering, grief-fuelled bouts of rage are both compelling and often hilarious.

I’d heard of a ‘dramedy’ before, but this is the first time I’ve come across the word ‘trauma-dy’ – it’s pretty apt here. Christina Applegate is fantastic as the hot-headed widow, and Linda Cardellini plays the perfect happy-go-lucky, polar-opposite friend – with a dark secret, of course. – Liesl