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Patriot was one of the best shows I've ever seen. If this was just a less good version of that, I'd gladly eat it up. But it's not just less good, it's the same except unfunny. It tarnishes Patriot by dragging all the brilliant quirks of that show way over the delicate line it was toeing. When it goes over the line the hilarity becomes tryhard and unfunny, and Perpetual Grace spends most of its time over that line. It would be hard to watch Patriot again without the subtlety being ruined by the aftertaste of this show. Avoid.

Hugely frustrating to watch - a woman being counterproductively hysterical for ages, then making some underwhelming realisations. I had enough and stopped it two thirds through.

Based on the great, seedy novel by Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time takes us to Knockemstiff, Ohio (one of the best place names I've heard), where the inhabitants partake in all sorts of nonchalant depravity while they wail at and about the Holy Ghost. The heart of the film is Arvin Russell, who tries to be good against all odds. This story really made me think about Trump country - how alien it looks to us and how alien the coastal elites must seem to them.