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Decent police drama about a wrongful murder conviction, with some thoroughly disagreeable arse-covering cops, some beautifully rich flawed characters, and nailbiting intensity. Peter Capaldi always seems to be about 40% more intense than other actors, although some of that’s GOT to be the fact that you’re waiting for him to unleash a volley of Malcolm…
Incredibly important story, and horrifically this is the drama that triggered government action on the issue in question – we couldn’t help wondering though if they made it incredibly patronising on purpose to appeal to an ITV audience. It’s a surreal world to live in where one needs to watch content like this to contextualise…
I got drawn into this as the show that Antony Starr (of The Boys) headed up previously, and was taken by the premise – a hardened criminal is released from prison, heads to the sleepy Pennsylvania town where his ex-girlfriend now lives, and following a rumble in a bar ends up assuming the identity of…
Season 1 was so gripping that we were prepared to overlook the fact that Season 2 of this show named after a submarine had nothing whatsoever to do with submarines. Unless it was a metaphor, or something. Drones, a fictional middle-eastern country, corporate intrigue… it’s like a British Homeland. And all against the backdrop of…
I wonder if the final season turning into a turd has anything to do with the number of Game of Thrones actors who appeared in this epic? Or, just that it finally got to contemporary time rather than historical time. Either way, the fixating over Diana (in the same way I suppose the country/world did)…
I only finished watching this out of wanting closure – agonising as it was to sit through the performances and scriptwriting of the last half of this. Hard to know whether this became so risible because of the wooden/mechanical scripts, or because the situations depicted were a contrived & unnatural mess. One can only hope…
Holy shit. I was well-acquainted with the format of Taskmaster, and my earlier forays into watching it had left me feeling it was amusing enough but really nothing too amazing. But Season 16 changed ALL of that. Maybe it’s partly down to my mounting obsession with the good-natured silliness of Alex Horne (the Horne Section…
Honestly, I don’t remember how I came by this. Or, much of what happened in it. But I *do* remember staring at it open-mouthed trying to work out what I’d just seen an earnestly and urgently messaging half my comedy chums to see if they’d seen it too or if I was imagining things. Probably…
Superhero High – a predictable trope. But, from the makers & universe of The Boys? Strap in. More of the unexpectedly creative violence amid a bleak, exploitative storyline and chemical hijinks from Voight Corporation. Great spinoff; makes me even more hungry for the real thing though. 👍👍
This was one of those things we had on VHS which as an adolescent I must’ve seen a good 100 times, and therefore wasn’t very surprised to see how much of it I could quote along with, despite not having seen it in over 30 years. WASN’T prepared for how crap the script, dialogue, and…