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LOVE ME, ACORN TV

THERE are lots of sharp edges to this Melbourne-based drama, which is all about love — pursuing it, holding on to it, and the pain of losing it — at different times of life. The Matrix’s Hugo Weaving is its most familiar face, as the kind but painfully selfsacrificing husband to ailing Christine, to whom he’s been married for nearly 40 years. Their late-30s daughter Clara (Bojana Novakovic, pictured), meanwhile, is at her wits’ end dating weirdos she finds online. Both their lives are about to take a turn, and Weaving in particular is remarkable to watch — his performance is at times heartbreaking and often unexpectedly hilarious. The scenes in which he fends off wildly inappropriate enquiries from female friends about his sick wife are very funny, and all too relatable. Love Me is based on a Swedish series, Alska Mig, that’s not available over here, and the story has that Scandinavian fatalism that the Australians do well, too. It’s also great to see Novakovic in a very different role from the one she played in flashy U.S. crime drama Instinct (Sky/ Now) with Alan Cumming.