Netflix
I’ve been bingeing The Days (pictured) on Netflix, a Japanese dramatisation of the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster. It’s a slow burner, with a lot of focus on the opening and closing of valves, which is more exciting than it sounds.
Even if you know exactly what happens, the narrative drive is powerful enough to keep you on the edge of your seat – how are they going to extricate themselves (and all of Japan) from this nightmare?
I’ve also been listening to Werner Herzog’s self-narrated autobiography, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A memoir (hat tip to my…
