We think of television – even in this age of a thousand streamers – as something we pig out on almost aimlessly like popcorn or smoking. Then something comes along that knocks all our snobberies for six and we realise that the form of entertainment we take for granted can rivet us with an image of our world that’s at one and the same time intimately familiar and a gift of God.
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