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Can we just reflect for a moment that this was described as “financial drama”? Yep, that’s a thing now apparently. Set in London but footed by Sky Atlantic Italy, it did a GREAT job of reminding us how fundamentally awesome Italian men are. As well as a compelling story, it ALSO had some ludicrous interior…
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…
This was a lot. I spent a good lot of time being distracted by the fact that the story was written by one of the Mitford Sisters, which had me trying to remember the details of (that idiot) Andrew Collings’s extended talk about The Mitford Sisters that I heard some time about 10ish years ago….
I kinda went into this one without much idea what I was signing up for – but it turned into quite an engaging murder-mystery following an alcoholic flight attendant as she tried to get to the bottom of the murder of the multimillionaire playboy whose death she’d been framed in. Couple that with some subplots…
We popped this on as a nostalgic re-watch of one of the shows we shared in the formative stages of our relationship – only to then find there was an entire 2nd series we’d completely missed! Well-constructed within the confines of the genre. I’ve no idea how authentic it is or what it tells us…
It’s been a true epic in many senses, however we finally made it through to the end of Season 1. I think I’ve come to accept that this show is fundamentally a historical-fantasy-soap-opera, and realistically the plot doesn’t tend to develop *very* far in any given episode. However I’m still drawn to it, and the…
This forces me to confess I haven’t read the Aldous Huxley book… but SURELY it doesn’t have all that fucking in it. Does it? Hmm. ANYWAY – it sorta teeters on the bullshittish for a long way, before tipping right over into it at the end. Useful that in the here & now we have…
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…
Tricky bridging season with a bunch of half-sucked plotlines, which I’m relieved they managed to resolve all of. At least it was a relief to see a story concluded before turning into more post-Sopranos character-interaction based endless TV.
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…