Both are 30, an age which in Yuzuki's telling spells disaster in Japan for unmarried women who are no longer girls. During her long office hours, Eriko becomes addicted to Shoko's pseudonymous, self-deprecating blog The Diary of Hallie B, the World's Worst Wife, and contrives to accidentally-on-purpose meet the blogger at a cafe Shoko mentions in one of her posts.
The first season ends with Liam piecing together the truth about Greta's disappearance. As teens back in school, the girls helped Greta bury the body of a journalist (Josh Finan) who threatened to expose the truth about her role in a tragic fire as a young child. When the past catches up with Greta, she fakes her own death with a secret organization that helps women in dire situations.
Three middle-aged women may be all you need for anything. To run a business, raise a village, end a war, retool a civilisation, empty the loft. Even more usefully, you can make a great murder-mystery caper with them, as Lisa McGee (a fourth woman! If it ain't broke, don't fix it) has done with her new series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.
It is the summer of 2019, and Sophie Evans, the reckless protagonist of Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's unsettling second novel, has arrived on an idyllic island in the Cyclades with her university friends Helena, Iris and Alessia to celebrate Helena's forthcoming marriage. Helena doesn't want it called her hen Like we're dumpy little featherbrains going cluck, cluck, cluck, but all the same, the men including Sophie's curator boyfriend of six years, Greg will not arrive for another five days.
Hot take: I love Galentine's Day way more than Valentine's Day. This could be because my birthday is pretty close to Valentine's Day, so I feel like I always get jipped, or it could be because I just love hanging out with my girlfriends and celebrating female friendship! Either way, Galentine's Day is the best made-up holiday there ever was.
Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast "Good Hang with Amy Poehler," certainly encourages that impression. It's perhaps her biggest platform since the hit series "Parks and Recreation," in which she played the idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope, went off the air a decade ago. And while many of her former co-stars have branched out into new territory- Aziz Ansari by reinventing himself as a melancholy romantic in "Master of None,"
