Not going to tell you what I think of Clarkson then :)

I gave up on UK & European telly awhile back. Got into Asian drama earlier this year. They tend to go deep with all emotions, highs and lows. Different set of cliches and conventions too. I'm rewatching a Chinese screwball comedy called The Romance of Tiger and Rose, where a young screenwriter gets stuck in the story and historical world she's created but things don't go to plan and, like all good screwball comedies, she talks her way into and out of much mayhem. Gender roles are reversed in the city she's made up and that's used well for social commentary. The new one is from So Korea, the title is translated into English as "King The Land." I don't know much about it.

I studied and practiced Buddhism when I was younger and through that learned how to identify when emotions were real emotions and when the feelings were physical. If I was feeling low and assigned reasons to it, it would last longer than if I recognised it as primarily physical. "Not putting content into it" is the phrase I used. With middle age though, no real support, a life of chronic illness, and how. much. is going on in the world these days, there's a lot of content.