Television: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriage

Gender isn’t a defining force in Alec Duckart’s music; it’s part of who he is, not something he thinks about every time he picks up a guitar

Sexistential is less a celebration of sexuality than a meditation on Robyn’s changing relationship with her physicality and her sensuality

The Duffer brothers’ new show, featuring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco as a couple en route to their wedding, is stylish, witty and terrifying

Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past: please don’t do to The Lord of the Rings what Saruman did to the Shire

Florence Shaw and Lewis Maynard talk soap, Taylor Swift and recording some of Mercury Prize shortlist-tipped Secret Love in Dublin

Enough is never enough for the country star Luke Combs, whose tiresome new LP runs down the clock with a patience-testing 22 tracks

HBO’s blackly comic The Comeback is a perfect vehicle for the former Phoebe Buffay in Friends

Television: Maggie Molloy is down-to-earth and seems to appreciate that she is helping people meet a basic need in their life

Television: Hooray for weirdos who live inside their heads – and for this sly, pointed deconstruction of the costume drama industrial complex

Television: Shuttered stalls, plunging footfall, drug addiction and lawlessness – it’s a wonder this wasn’t called Farewell to Moore Street

A tale of lies, female friendship and dreadful men set in upper-middle-class California that somehow doesn’t feature Nicole Kidman

Put your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worst

Katelyn Cummins claims the Dancing with the Stars crown

On his first LP since going independent, James Blake blends stillness and beauty with quietly roiling rage