Amy Poehler narrates this soft, soul-cleansing delight – which will make you go for a chic black coffee then throw away nine boxes of rubbish. Blessed relief!
ery rare a TV show affects me anymore, of course. I have seen, simply, too many of them. I have seen every configuration of dating show and every possible ITV2 Love Island spin-off reality format. I’ve seen every Channel 4 property programme and every doomed BBC One attempt at a Saturday night light entertainment blockbuster. I was the person who watched every single British odd couple road trip show they made in the wake of Covid.
But I do have to concede that W’s new US import, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning , did make me go round my office with a bin bag and not stop until I’d filled it with detritus . It’s a simple remix of Marie Kondo’s massive Netflix hit from a couple of years ago, which you might remember from that weekend you got all weird and said goodbye to your old socks one by one.
But translated to TV, it’s a soft and fuzzy and brain-off delight, built in the mould of Netflix’s Queer Eye: three wholesomely cheerful Swedish death cleaners, all with Robot Wars-style nicknames, enter the home of a hoarding American and peer around in wonder. “Wow, you have so much stuff,” Johan, “the Designer”, might say. “Let us put this over here,” Katarina, “the Psychologist”, will suggest. “We will help you make this room … a useful kind of room,” Ella, “the Organiser”, will chirp.
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