What is the point of giving us documentaries about yet more manipulative, vile and greedy predators exploiting good people? Their creators seem to have no idea

I’ve had enough of hearing about how awful people can be to one another. I’m about ready for the second flood, a cleansing fire, whatever will raze this horrible business of humanity to the ground and give us – or some other species – a chance to start anew. Ideally it would happen after I’ve finished watching Rivals and season four of Only Murders in the Building, but I accept that things are probably at a pitch that means my desires may no longer be fully accommodated.

For those of you who still have some appetite left for horrors, or who need one final push over the line towards welcoming – nay, rushing towards – the apocalypse, watch Love Cheats. It is four hour-long stories about how manipulative, exploitative, vile, greedy and emotionally predatory some people can be, and how they tend to target the kinder, gentler, more sympathetic, empathic, altogether better members of the threadbare net we are still just about able to call society.

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