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I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to complete this political tour-de-force from Armando Iannucci. Just masterful. You could potentially describe it as the 2000’s equivalent to Yes Minister, except for the fact that watching this is like being waterboarded in comparison to its early 80s counterpart. I found it utterly gripping in its…
The Star Wars story that had everyone talking. I thought it was fine. I don’t know why I have such a high expectation of the Star Wars universe for good storytelling, particularly in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary… but this simultaneously gave screentime to a mysterious figure (or, more specifically, adjacent) in…
If season 2 was difficult to describe, season 3 has upped that ante quite a bit. Ostensibly about some farmers who come to Billy McBride about water rationing in their area, the story quickly becomes entangled & starts dropping into hallucinogenic back & forths involving a web of interlinked characters from previous series, covert interests,…
The irrepressible Midge Maisel continues her tour de force of the comedy world of 1960, securing a tour spot as opener for crooner Shy Baldwin. The storyline this season seems to have found its way a lot better than series 2, but in the end it still comes across as if all of the other…
The final arc for the beleaguered lads of Pied Piper Inc, rounding out with almost a victory lap of ludicrousness. A great and well-timed way to end this story, and happily we got a big serve of the utter ridiculance of Russ Hanneman to play out on. It had everything! Stupid vanity projects… hostile takeovers……
Now I see what all the fuss was about for this one! Police/detective thriller starring Robb Stark guarding a Tory. Decently rounded characters and plenty of character-driven ambiguity/conflict. I don’t really want to say anything about this one other than definitely recommending it as a splendidly-crafted bit of telly. 👍👍
It’s fair to say that I totally missed this the first time around. And the second. And probably would’ve kept ignoring it in the same way that I do with things that Normal people watch on terrestrial TV. Liz got interested though, so I spotted various bits of it as I breezed through the room,…
More compelling CIA stuff… hard to know where to suspend disbelief about the Action Man antics of Jack Ryan, who’s ostensibly meant to have gotten himself a job as an office jockey. This provoked a little bit of shouting “Arrrgh, WHYYYYYY!?” at the TV when characters supposedly selected for CIA black ops incursion activity would…
Sometimes I find myself wondering why I watch this – the unstoppable tide of unpleasantness depicted in the story raises the stakes for the characters to succeed and to create all sorts of moral ambiguity for the oppressors’ characters… however on a much more surface level it’s a kind of disaster-titillation which by continuing to…
Dramatisation of the downfall of Roger Ailes – executive in charge of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, following his systemic sexual harrassment of the women they hired based on the speaking out of Gretchen Carlson. A compelling story highlighting the challenge of upholding the law and decency amid a backdrop of a huge power imbalance. I…