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Stampeding through the 1st season of this before it gets taken off streaming in mid January… I couldn’t for the life of me remember why we stopped watching this, because aside from it being about a family of totally uniquely dislikable arseholes it makes for a pretty good watch. I still find it a bit…
Possibly the most appealing aspect of this cooking competition programme is that everybody in it is competent. The field of entries for “The Professionals” has clearly been sifted thoroughly before we get to the first round – and though the odd one slips through that totally bodges up their first round cook it TENDS to…
BOOM! Now we’re talking. It’s a comedy quasi-biopic based on the life of Dwayne Johnson, told as a series of reminiscences as part of his Presidential campaign in 2032. It’s sweet, funny, engaging, and you can tell DJ is enjoying every second of it. It has 70s/80s cheese, it has people doing serviceable jobs 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…
I accidentally found my way into liking this show back in 2019 and we’d been periodically checking to see if there was any more on the way… With great delight we found Season 5 on a streaming service, and started watching the recap – only to realise we’d COMPLETELY missed Season 4! I love how…
6 part followup to the surprisingly good COBRA – this once again pits Robert Carlyle and his inner circle against a national disaster; in this case what turns out to be a cyber-terrorism threat which wreaks havoc on the UK and instils a sense of panic and paranoia, which antagonist David Haig once again tries…
I can’t recall what drew me to this – although my watching history does seem to point to the fact that if left to my own devices, I’ll sniff out odd documentary series. In this case, it was a 6-part investigation of “ordinary people” and the unusual hobbies they get passionate about – narrated by…
Second half of Season 5, which was halted due to COVID. It might be the lack of recency, but it really felt like this grouping of 6 episodes ratcheted the intrigue and double-crossing RIGHT up to fairly epic levels, with outflanking, outflanking the outflanking, countering the outflanking, spotting an upcoming outflanking so positioning someone to…
Dammit, this show just keeps getting better & better – and Season 5 genuinely gave the idea that Roiland & Harmon genuinely don’t care, and are putting in EXACTLY what they want to. More stupidity. More grotesquerie. More convoluted psy plots. All stakes raised, and all bets pay off. And, as ever, they just introduce…