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Truelove is the rare show that can combine elements of a thriller with real emotional propulsion. The fact that it addresses so many issues about aging, illness and death in a way that’s more matter-of-fact than maudlin is an achievement.
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Truelove is rather glorious in parts, despite the subject matter. For starters, it soon develops the structure of a thriller. .... It also does that all-too-rare thing of depicting older people as interesting and complicated and still up for having a damn good time.
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This drama took a while and a lot of exposition to warm up, a group of old friends, all over 70, who now only meet up at funerals, making a pact while drunk at a wake that they won’t let each other suffer like poor old dead Dennis had done, wretchedly, from cancer. But once it had set out its stall it was compelling, and pretty brutal stuff.
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Full of great lines, but also deft, dense and, as we move through the episodes, deeply moving.
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Thoughtful, bracingly humorous and beautifully acted drama.
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