📺 I’m in the second of two miniseries called “A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Other Stories” (Sky Arts, 2012-13). It is based on work by Mikhail Bulgakov and is set mainly in rural Russia in 1917–18, with flashforwards to 1934–35.

Or is it set in Moscow in 1934–35 with flashbacks? Either way, Jon Hamm plays the lead in the 1930s and Daniel Radcliffe plays the same character in the 1910s. Hamm’s character is also present in the 1910s as a kind of morphine-induced hallucination who talks to his younger self.

I’m enjoying this dark comedy, but be advised that it has drug addiction, gore, and other bodily fluids. The Hobbesian characterization of life as nasty, brutish, and short applies.