The irrepressible Midge Maisel continues her tour de force of the comedy world of 1960, securing a tour spot as opener for crooner Shy Baldwin. The storyline this season seems to have found its way a lot better than series
Bodyguard
Now I see what all the fuss was about for this one! Police/detective thriller starring Robb Stark guarding a Tory. Decently rounded characters and plenty of character-driven ambiguity/conflict. I don’t really want to say anything about this one other than
The Handmaid’s Tale – Season 3
Sometimes I find myself wondering why I watch this – the unstoppable tide of unpleasantness depicted in the story raises the stakes for the characters to succeed and to create all sorts of moral ambiguity for the oppressors’ characters… however
Criminal: UK
Police procedural set around an interrogation room, as part of a larger 12-part series set in several countries in those languages… which we didn’t get around to watching. Engaging enough, but not especially memorable. More David Tennant facetime.
The Looming Tower
We seem to watch a lot of FBI & CIA related content, so this one examining how the breakdown in cooperation between the two over 9/11 was detrimental to the whole operation seemed an interesting and obvious watch for us.
Big Little Lies – Season 2
The ante is upped in Season 2 with a conspiracy maintained between Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern as a result of the finale of Season 1, and now there’s additional rounding out and deepening
GLOW – Season 3
Still sticking with this women-forward wrestling drama, although I feel like the writing this season took a bit of a detour because the story seemed to be more about the male protagonists (Sam Sylvia & Bash Howard). I hope it
Chernobyl
This was the 5-part “It’s not fun at all, but you HAVE to watch it” show of 2019, and sticking to one episode a night was the sensible option. Splendidly presented (and the fact that the cast was entirely British
Dead to Me
Drama/dark comedy series starring Christina Applegate which feels like it has a few parallels or links across to Big Little Lies somehow, but a decent watch and further evidence of how much of a relief it is that TV shows
The Good Fight – Season 1 to 3
I’d sort of shoulder-surfed Liz watching The Good Wife previously and so knew who some of these characters were – I guess it’s a more gender & racially balanced law-ish dramedy after the same style as Boston Legal. Hard to