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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Luke Buckmaster

Dear Life review – Brooke Satchwell hauntingly good in an otherwise clunky drama

A young woman with shoulder-length wavy brown hair wearing a checked dark shirt sits at a dining table looking at someone off-screen, and smiles slightly with her lips closed
After the unexpected death of her fiance, Lillian (Brooke Satchwell) tries to connect with the various people who received his donated organs in Dear Life. Photograph: Stan

In Stan’s new six-part drama, Brooke Satchwell delivers a painfully good performance as Lillian, a distraught widow whose centre of gravity – entire footing in the universe, in fact – has been thrown off by the death of her fiance.

You never doubt her anguish, nor that haunted look in her heavy-lidded eyes, pressed down by grief and the unfairness of a world that never follows a just moral rhythm, tossing her around like dust in a draft.

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