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I know the original Time Bandits was a kids’ film. I know I’m not a kid. Nostalgically, this show doesn’t hold a candle to Gilliam’s original. Objectively, it was a pile of crap – I’m a pretty laid back bloke, and yet the kid in the lead role really made me want to punch him…
A very close second to last season’s brilliance – this saw the lateral-stylings of Jon Robins, the carefree madness of Joanne McNally, the timid & good-natured earnestness of a Dracula-costumed Nick Mohamed, the borderline incomprehensible logical leaps of Sophie Willan, and introduced me to the complex mind of Steve Pemberton (which prompted us to have…
The bespectacled ogre and his scrotum-faced keeper drag another batch of hopefuls through the repetitive competitive kitchen-based challenge, this year spicing things up by bringing back a busload of near-misses from last season. Was that for variety, or because there weren’t enough entrants? At any rate, this time next year I’ll probably still be struggling…
Was definitely expecting a bit more out of this David E Kelley limited series – really felt like they took what I later learned to be a Tom Wolfe story and crammed it into the few episodes they had budget for, curtailing the story arcs with something of a mumble. It really felt that by…
Terrifying, really. And a bit of a twofer, because being one of the most watched things on Netflix this year we also get the parallel drama of people tracking down the players in this true story. Worth a look, but equally I hope it’s had its moment and disappears again soon.
Started as a fairly promising sci-fi/alternative timeline show, although as Season 1 progressed it was clearly light sci-fi with a more obvious drama predilection. I enjoyed the progressive timeline of the show and the reincorporation of the characters as they grew up/developed, but was starting to lose interest by the end of S3 and only…
What a piece. This started off as a straight sitcom about a fish-out-of-water soccer coach brought in to close the team down as a revenge ploy by a spurned ex-wife… but by god did it transform into something different. The hype’s justified, the scripts are great, and what blew me away was the way the…
Sofia Vergara’s Spanish-language piece about drug queenpin Griselda Blanco. I’m not 100% sure why the prosthetics were necessary, but other than constant background distraction this was a pretty intense bit of escapism. I think I wanted to shout at the TV at a few points (“WHAT THE HELL MADE YOU THINK SMOKING CRACK WAS A…
The great marathon of high-end culinary art returns – proving once again that the standard of cooking in some parts of the country is far, far higher than others. Although that dubious regionality still shines through. This year’s crop were a fine mismatched gaggle of misfits, with the finals being contested by a sweary posher,…