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I feel like I’ve already covered this. Season 8 was a tremendously disappointing finish to the television highlight of the decade for the simple fact that the style of storytelling changed completely at the end of Season 6 and the showrunners rushed it: meaning that vast chunks of potential plot were compressed into moments, armies…
This is going to sound a bit stupid, but we re-watched Season 7 prior to watching Season 8 in order to get our heads back into the GoT story so that Season 8 would see us moving at running speed without having to remember what “just happened” (i.e. from 2 years ago when it was…
Quirky as fuck Groundhog Day, led my Natasha Lyonne as a game developer who keeps dying and then respawning back at her own birthday party, leaving her to try to solve what’s going on and unlock the mystery. Exquisitely shot & quite compelling, yet still leaves simpletons like me wondering wtf is going on, or…
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin continue to perform like the treasures they are in this dramatic sitcom about retirees who’ve had circumstance thrust upon them, and how they deal with some of the admittedly fantastical changes in their lives. Which, as ever, appears to make for much more palatable viewing when nobody involved really has…
We watched the pilot episode of this aaaaaaaaaages ago, then saw nothing more of it for a long time. So when it came up on streaming somewhere we had a weird deja vu moment, then watched the first one and kept looking at each other and thinking “have we seen this?”. Seemingly decent story of…
Very conflicting show this – I quite enjoyed the concept, but the characters all really annoyed me, to the point where I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep watching or not, but somehow did. AND there was one bloke who I swore reminded me of somebody, and looked a bit like David Tennant. Hey…
Further adventures of the Manhattanites who behave like spoiled tossers. Generally amusing specific situations, but it’s almost depressing that we live in a world where it might be plausibly possible that people could conduct themselves like this and still lead rewarding professional lives. TV’s a strange thing, isn’t it?
Inward-looking BBC Documentary about what a groundbreaking show The Young Ones was, and how the performers in it impacted the UK alternative comedy scene. I loved it, because of it being a walk through my favourite paddocks – but one’s got to question what we learn from a documentary like this, other than that it’s…
Small-town tensions in a fabulously wealthy & attractive town interlinked with post-“happening” interviews. It’s a little maddening to know that *something* has happened, but not know what or to whom. Heavy-hitting cast… weird to see Alexander Skarsgard without fangs.
This sitcom about a group of Manhattan-dwelling Harvard grads doesn’t really do anything for the image of the 1% – entertaining as it is, one can’t help feeling that they don’t work particularly hard. Mainly carried by the charisma/animatedness of Keegan Michael-Key, although good to see Fred Savage back in a series too. It’s not…