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So, I find it *really* hard watching things with Toni Collette in (and this is TOTALLY my issue) because I keep getting distracted about whether it was her that I really disliked in that Jurassic Park sequel (spoiler: it isn’t – that was Tea Leoni, and I don’t know why I can’t tell the two…
I think I got a bit confused here, as there’s been loads of media rhetoric about the Steve Coogan-led dramatisation of the Savile story: and that’s what I was interested in. It’s probably no coincidence therefore that Netflix have been pimping out this documentary to capitalise on the story’s current profile. Once started, of course,…
For some reason our TV was suddenly inundated with Harlan Coben stories, so we picked this one on the strength of the casting – it seemed quite a decent mystery piece whose episodes left you wondering deliciously what this show was actually going to be about. Maybe a little far fetched with a couple of…
Watching this one’s been dragging out over months… What started as a crisp & enthralling drama based on the tale of the purported kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, the grandson of tycoon John Paul Getty (Donald Sutherland) turned into a fairly laborious plod through various ransom machinations based in Italy. It’s based on a…
Did I mention “light, uplifting TV” before? There was a point where we were simultaneously watching this, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Underground Railroad, and Halston. You can forgive us for feeling a little emotionally wrecked! The Serpent was a 1970s true story about a thief & murderer of backpackers in Bangkok. Exquisitely performed and set-dressed,…
So many column inches of reviews on this already. GREAT story, and so compellingly put together. Not only a torturous journey through the mundane, but it’s foolish not to note that it was Kate Winslet utterly refusing the glamour bit. Really compelling story with loads of twists, some which went nowhere. I love that storytelling’s…
I think we bailed on this after 5 episodes, which I feel’s a reasonable tilt at it. In truth I think we picked this up for the wrong reasons – i.e. that it had Michael Sheen attached to it. Son of a psychiatrist/murderer who becomes a serial killer profiler, with episodic and background story arc…
The final chapter in Carrie Matheson’s Crazy Adventures, in which Claire Danes has buried the image of the impish smile from Romeo+Juliet & replaced it with a kind of gorilla-like gurning… but then, I guess the content’s rather different. It really hit us in Season 8 how much the show’s changed in focus over the…
Self-contained police questioning drama; on the whole more compelling than season 1, however some of the performances felt a little like drama school auditions.
Hmm, seems I forgot to write anything about the first 2 seasons of this, also. Conflicted on this one – season 3 felt like it had some really confused/stationary moments… but at the same time there’s something incredibly compelling about the characters and their relationships, and particularly Jodie Comer’s Villanelle. Unless this show REALLY jumps…