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Gary, Ellie, Matt, Arnaud, Brenton, Zoe – another crowd of hopefuls entering the Masterchef kitchen under the beady gaze of Marcus Wareing & Monica Galletti. If anything this show’s softened my stance on what we now call “reality TV” – although I prefer to think of it as a cooking competition rather than just the…
Holy shit! ITV Hub has historically been a seething cesspool of tedium, however this 3-part dramatisation of the scandal of “The Coughing Major” on UK breakout gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was surprisingly captivating television! A little laborious to start, but it drew us in with its portrayal of a “special” subcommunity within…
I suspect I wildly missed the point of this. Lauded as “must see” by some ppl in my circles, I gave this a good solid attempt at watching (3 episodes), but ultimately found it impossible to give much of a fuck about what Fran Lebowitz thinks. Near as I can tell she’s a some-time actress,…
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…
So… TECHNICALLY I shouldn’t put this in a roundup, because we haven’t finished watching it. However it really rates a mention, owing to the fact that in its original broadcast form I believe each episode is movie-length. What Netflix cunningly did, to make it more bitesize, was to edit it back into much more consumable…
I somehow got talked into this and immediately wondered if I’d made the wrong move, given how tedious I find Jane Austen et al. This was definitely no Downton Abbey though, and by episode 5 was bordering on Game of Thrones-style sex scenes. It frustrates the crap outta me to watch people communicating in a…
Nobody can Jeff Goldblum like Jeff Goldblum – so I’ve no idea what the pitching process for this National Geographic series was, but it features Jeff doing his inimitable thing on a series of different topics – Ice Cream, Swimming Pools, Bikes, Jewelry, Sneakers… – leading to a wholesome, informative and fun collection of perspectives…
It’s weird, isn’t it? As a kid you see a character in a film and think “I’d like to know more about them”. Then – years later – someone puts together a series that gives you a load more detail that you once craved, and it feels a bit like being pandered to. I can’t…