Media Diet: September and October 2026

A quick look at the movies, television shows, music, and books that have captured my attention over the past two months. How to Get to Heaven from Belfast If the hijinx of three middle-aged women traveling around Northern Ireland to try to solve the mystery around the death of a childhood friend isn’t enough of a premise to get you hooked on this show, perhaps this fact might help you get interested: the show was made by Lisa McGee, who previously created Derry Girls, one of the funniest shows of the past ten years. While this show doesn’t have the same amount of laughs as Derry Girls, it still has its moments of laugh-out-loud absurdism and a whole lots of intrigue thrown in as well. The plot got a little convoluted at times, but overall this is a funny, captivating, delightful show. The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See This is the first novel I have read by Lisa See, but after this one I want to read many more. This novel is lush and delightful with its descriptions, with the prose so…