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I finished it! I’ve been watching this fucking show since about 2010. So, this was a gripping exercise in Stockholm Syndrome… Amazing series though – SUCH a change from where it all started, and yet a plausible plot arc. The final few episodes really ramped up the bleakness but it was a superb story, superbly…
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….
One of the more successful late-night documentary selections I’ve made (and managed to stay awake through this one!) – South African journalist Rian Malan tracks down the daughters of Solomon Linda to see if they’re aware that their father’s song (Mbube – an obvious and documented progenitor of The Lion Sleeps Tonight) is being used…
Bit of surrealist Australian nonsense here – I think I’d seen a few Aunty Donna videos on Youtube, so their being commissioned for a Netflix series seemed worth a punt. It’s intriguing to ponder if I’d seen this 20 years ago whether I’d be quoting it in the same way we do with Tripod, Python,…
If there’s something I really don’t need in my life it’s more frigging Monty Python documentary. I’ve been watching/reading Python docos pretty much since I’ve known about the Pythons. While watching this I realised that with the bulk of their work produced between 1969 and 1983, the Python team have been reminiscing about their work…
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…
This was the ABC network’s “contemporary” take on using the Muppet characters in a mockumentary behind-the-scenes-on-a-variety-show setting… which is kinda weird, because that’s fundamentally what The Muppet Show was about. So what the hell’s different here? And, missing. The key thing – articulated by someone in one of the seemingly endless actual documentaries I’ve seen…
I got introduced into the one by Tom at work, who it eventually transpired had never actually watched it. No idea what that says about anything. Real-life siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper head up this show as Kerrie and Lee “Kurtan” Mucklow – young-ish residents of a Cotwsold village, in this everyday-life-characters mockumentary style…