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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: We Might Regret This; Michael Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body; The Frog; Pachinko; Made in Korea – review

Kyla Harris seated in a wheelchair as Freya and Elena Saurel as Jo, kneeling beside the wheelchair, her head on Harris's lap in We Might Regret This.
Kyla Harris (Freya) and Elena Saurel (Jo) in We Might Regret This: ‘a darkly comic carnival of ramps, motorised wheelchairs and emotional needs’. Photograph: Parisa Taghizadeh/BBC/Roughcut

We Might Regret This (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Michael Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body (Channel 5) | channel5.com
The Frog (Netflix)
Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience (BBC One) | iPlayer

Who knew comedy was missing a catheter chandelier? It hangs proudly in Freya’s bedroom in the opening episode of new six-parter We Might Regret This (BBC Two) which doesn’t flinch from disability themes. Created and written by Kyla Harris and Lee Getty (Getty was once Harris’s carer, AKA personal assistant), it stars Harris as Freya, a semi-autobiographical version of herself (also Canadian, tetraplegic and an artist), coming to the UK to live with lover Abe (Darren Boyd). The first scene features Freya’s initial witless PA walking in on them having sex (“I always wondered whether it worked with… down there”).

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