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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…
I *love* Penn & Teller. They’re the most skilful exponents of magic, comedy, and debunking that I think exist in mainstream TV today. So I *had* to watch this Netflix show in which would-be magicians would perform their tricks to Penn & Teller, and if P&T couldn’t explain or guess how a trick worked, then…
I’d sort of shoulder-surfed Liz watching The Good Wife previously and so knew who some of these characters were – I guess it’s a more gender & racially balanced law-ish dramedy after the same style as Boston Legal. Hard to know if my interest was partially down to the involvement of Rose Leslie and to…
Stephen Fry & Mark Carwardine’s followup to Douglas Adams’ 1990 book & radio series. A generally desperate series of illustrations of mankind’s decimation of our natural habitat and the ecological collateral damage that ensues, although seldom over-earnest and mawkish. Tough one for me, because it’s one of my favourite books ever… and as much as…
So, there’s a type of Netflix show that goes on late at night when everyone else is in bed and you want something on in the background while you do stuff on your phone/laptop, and that’s what this turned out to be. I guess partially inspired by watching the Penn & Teller “Fool Us” stuff,…
Having suffered through Season 8 we decided to make sure we weren’t being nostalgic or rose-tinty about our glasses, etc. and so for the third time (I think) we started all the way back at episode 1 of series 1 and made our way through. It’s still gripping and compelling TV, and I maintain that…
Having been a fan of Fry & Laurie since the early 90s I couldn’t believe that I didn’t know there had been 4 seasons of their absurd sketch show, (doing the air quotes with my fingers) “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”. It was all very clever, although bingewatching it’s a *little* much… however it…