Get ready to cry buckets when you give this 10-episode series a binge. Warning: minor spoilers and emotional wreckage ahead.
Those who’ve lost a loved one may be all too familiar with the inexpressible pain that comes only after all the ceremonious formalities are done. The deafening silence when returning to one’s home boasts an absence that has never been more visceral and real. Clothes left unworn, books meticulously curated across the years, gadgets and jewellery, worn-out shoes—all suddenly bereft of their owner. This is the flip side of loss. A looming presence deeply felt as if a word caught at the tip of one’s tongue, never to come into being.
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The Netflix series, Move to Heaven, explores this very difficulty. Following the eponymously named ‘trauma cleaning’ company, the show takes us into the lives of those who have suddenly passed through the objects they’ve left behind.