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David Tennant’s vicar and Stanley Tucci’s death-row-not-at-all-like-Hannibal-Lecter psychologist are the tentpoles for this 4-part crime drama where the mild-mannered vicar just keeps on making the wrong decision, culminating in a VERY bizarre final episode. Some pretty wildly unrealistic police characters in this also. But it’s only a story and it was interesting enough. I’d call…
I watched Seinfeld. All of it. All 9 seasons. Starting at the end of January, and finishing in November. Snatching 2 or 3 episodes in an evening when I could after Liz had gone to bed (she haaaaaates Seinfeld). I’d never seen it all despite it having been CONSTANTLY on TV – from its actual…
OK, so I was ALWAYS gonna be watching this, and will watch it to completion unless it gets really dire. The world’s too rich not to. However, it’s worth registering at this point: they’re pretty bloody earnest, aren’t they? Totally lacks any of the sense of humour of its predecessor. The time elapsing business screwed me…
I really struggled watching a semi-dramatisation of the Conservative Government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis that didn’t take a harder point of view against Johnson and friends. Central to it was Kenneth Branagh’s faultless portrayal – albeit very distracting for over half of it due to the amount of prosthetics involved (and additionally because I’d…
Such a rich setting. And ambitious in scale. Incredible detail. Really struggles in the way that prequels with known source material do though in that we know this is a story that needs to hit certain beats. The storytelling’s a bit ponderous but why not just relax into the art and go with it? Will…
I don’t know if TV crime shows have ALWAYS been this consciously misleading, or if it’s a more recent development – so new am I to the ways of small-screen British drama. In this one the bloke from Poldark plays a psychologist with some weird stuff going on which sees him become a fugitive from…
Having never read the GRAPHIC NOVELS but heard loads about them over the years I was very keen to watch this, and mostly enjoyed the British emo/stoner vibing lead character. Took me a minute to pick up that as a comic book the pace of it wouldn’t necessarily be episodic story arc, but could be…
Comedic-but-tackling-the-real-life-issues series with protagonist Neil Patrick Harris being left by his long-term boyfriend unexpectedly, and the completely relatable stories that unfold for someone who’s a high-end property agent, existing in the New York gay society scene. This is DEFINITELY not The Wire. Clearly we’ve become a lot more comfortable with gay men on TV since…
The quasi-biopic of Presedential Candidate Dwayne Johnson continues – bringing in a little adversity and a few lessons but maintaining the ludicrous tone and cartoonish charm. What a way to mythologise a backstory! I feel like in this season his Dad, Rocky Johnson, is starting to get away less-easily with being a self-absorbed dickpiece. 👍👍
Newsroom drama set in 1980s Australia, hinging on the Lindy Chamberlain story – once again I find myself surprised at still being surprised to see Anna Torv acting with her native accent. Did we do 1950s Australiana on TV in the 80s? The look and attitudes of the time were very well-captured, although I wondered…