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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…
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…