ShtiselNetflix★★★★☆Black Power: A British Story of ResistanceBBC2★★★★★SponsoredAfter a four-year interval Shtisel, the unlikely hit drama series about a Haredi Jewish family living in Geula, Jerusalem, has returned. White Flags, the opener to series three, was funny, gossipy, poignant and occasionally deeply profound. It was part comedy of manners, part tragedy, the latter done particularly well. The best performer was Michael Aloni, who plays Akiva Shtisel, a struggling yet talented painter with a baby who, we realised in a beautiful and controlled piece of storytelling, cannot bear to sell his portraits of his young wife because she is dead. What Akiva had done was create an alternative reality in which Libbi was

Source: The Times March 26, 2021 00:00 UTC