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We were really taken by this series with a sensibility of The Good Place, alongside the tech/scifi concepts of Black Mirror, with a hint of Season 1 West World thrown in. It’s a solid watch with some good character development and an intriguing story, told in the theatre of a gripping VR-afterlife setting. Looking forward…
We bailed on this partway through cos we couldn’t follow who was who for the most part. Are all younger people looking the same now? Well, that, and finding out it had been axed after one season. Pretty far from compelling, which is a shame because Bourne-style MKUltra sleeper agent stories hold a lot of…
Sweet/amusing-enough story about ppl approaching middle-age activating a youth-sealed pact to ease the drudgery in their lives, which takes a turn for the more sinister once it’s got its hooks in you. I found the appearance of Phoebe Waller-Bridge playing a character VERY distracting, as much as looking at the main bloke and seeing the…
The final & victory lap for a comedic masterpiece – following the fortunes of the Rose family in the town they came to own as a joke, and centering around the wedding of son David & his partner Patrick, as well as the resolution of the storyline of daughter Alexis. So ridiculous, such love, and…
One of those shows where seemingly normal people get caught up in an unusual but plausible circumstance, and then have you watching agape at how they choose to respond and the decisions they make. Sometimes difficult to watch because Christina Applegate’s character traits and a couple of her aspects of her look in this remind…
We were really starting to settle into this before abruptly learning it was a 4-part miniseries. Spencer gives a solid portrayal of a principled, driven woman who wants to take life on her own terms, and finds the men in her life not looking good at all. Her business is a nascent empire built more…
Compelling CIA thriller following a sometime-unbalanced agent in her counter-terrorism work, in which she becomes very personally entangled – and also caught in the machinations of higher-level Machiavellian scheming by career spymasters. Famously slow in seasons 3 & 4, taken overall it’s a compelling rollercoaster and though it took a while to get through it…
The TV phenomenon that swept the COVID Lockdown affected households of Great Britain – and I’ve no idea how to start describing it… a documentary about “tiger king” Joe Exotic, and the people in his life & fortunes of his animal park, but as the story unfolds episode by episode you can’t help be stopped…
More antics and hijinks from Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin, with a bit more winning than previous seasons I thought. Mike McKean’s cameo as a potential Frankie love interest was good. Sometimes the Robert/Sol stuff plays to type a bit too heavily. Borderline earnest at times but generally something I look forward to going back…
Massive solar flare causes nationwide power blackout – and this 6-part drama follows PM Robert Carlyle dealing with it. Decent bit of TV in the end; the opening blows were fairly predictable, but by the end I had a good solid bit of empathy for the characters, and was getting frustrated about the amount of…