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For someone who more or less doesn’t give a solitary flying fuck about superhero properties, The Boys was incredibly captivating. Almost an extension of where Mystery Men left off – this fairly cynical series featured superheroes-as-antiheroes with normal hopes, dreams, and foibles, alongside a toxic capitalist culture driving the idealism agenda, and being pursued by…
Police procedural set around an interrogation room, as part of a larger 12-part series set in several countries in those languages… which we didn’t get around to watching. Engaging enough, but not especially memorable. More David Tennant facetime.
We seem to watch a lot of FBI & CIA related content, so this one examining how the breakdown in cooperation between the two over 9/11 was detrimental to the whole operation seemed an interesting and obvious watch for us. Highlighting that often the people at the heads of these things aren’t moral paragons, but…
Thoroughly good fun screen adaptation of the Pratchett/Gaiman story of Aziraphale and Crowley – a pairing of functionary angel & demon who’ve worked together since the time of creation to make their lives easier and achieve better results. What’s great about this is the amount of fun the ludicrously good cast seem to be having…
The ante is upped in Season 2 with a conspiracy maintained between Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern as a result of the finale of Season 1, and now there’s additional rounding out and deepening of the characters in the small, well-to-do seaside town they live in. Jeopardy in this…
Still sticking with this women-forward wrestling drama, although I feel like the writing this season took a bit of a detour because the story seemed to be more about the male protagonists (Sam Sylvia & Bash Howard). I hope it gets back on track again. Oh, ALSO, I just this moment learned that Britannica is…
The Rose family continue their ridiculous adventures in the town of Schitt’s Creek, and each character seems to be more & more O.T.T. every time they take the screen. Pretty sure that Alexis and David are mainly trying to get each other to corpse on screen, and Catherine O’Hara’s Moira could be described as pure…
This was the 5-part “It’s not fun at all, but you HAVE to watch it” show of 2019, and sticking to one episode a night was the sensible option. Splendidly presented (and the fact that the cast was entirely British seemed not that distracting, so long as you weren’t jolted out of the moment by…
Drama/dark comedy series starring Christina Applegate which feels like it has a few parallels or links across to Big Little Lies somehow, but a decent watch and further evidence of how much of a relief it is that TV shows aren’t all about blokes & their adventures any more. The central conceit was a bit…
I suppose this one was my fault for not knowing the source material – this was a six-part adaptation of a John Le Carré book, rather than a 6 episode TV series: Tom Hiddleston’s character almost out Bond-ing James Bond, with musical cues to match. Incredibly well-executed though and one hopes a second story can…