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You’d be hard pressed to find a show more open and frank about sexuality than Netflix’s excellent high school drama Sex Education. And its third season offered up more of the same: serious conversations about teenage sexuality (where the teenagers are all portrayed by twentysomethings, but the intent stands), family, friendship, love, and whether or […]
In a post-Game of Thrones world, every major network and streaming site has made a play for their own piece of beloved IP. HBO is continuing its Thrones universe with a prequel series. Amazon spent a ridiculous sum of money to buy the rights to the remaining Lord of the Rings stories. Netflix is sitting […]
I’ll admit up front that I wasn’t a huge fan of season one of The Morning Show. While I enjoyed elements of the series – particularly the work of Steve Carrell as Mitch Kessler, who managed to make you not immediately turn against his odious character, even as it became clear that he was every […]
Back in 2018, a new comedy premiered on Comedy Central to a solid amount of critical acclaim, but almost no one saw it. That’s the price of doing business on basic cable in today’s super saturated world of television. Thankfully, the show has returned for a second season – this time on the much more […]
Everything that Only Murders in the Building does well (and to be clear, most of what the series does, it does well) it does very well. In fact, it’s so good at smoothing over any rough edges that it’s hard to see them when they do pop up. If you’re a true crime podcast junkie […]
In 1969, Hillary Rodham (soon to be Clinton) went to Alaska (Valdez, to be exact), to slime fish. It’s a surprisingly true story – as told by Clinton in her 2017 memoir “What Happened” – and it’s the seed from which the film When I’m a Moth grows. Now, the film isn’t interested in offering […]
Netflix’s new miniseries The Chair is the perfect bite-sized binge. Six episodes, each clocking in at around 30 minutes, packed with plot and laced with humor, the show is fun, engaging, and a great watch. It’s a series that knows what it is – and understands the insane level of talent it possesses in front […]
CODA is a formulaic and syrupy sweet film. It’s also perfectly designed to be a crowd pleaser – and it’s nearly impossible to not become charmed by its wonderful cast and the familiar path of its story. In short, you will almost certainly find yourself swept away by this story of a young woman who […]
Billie Piper is a great actress. With Rare Beasts, her feature film writing and directorial debut, it appears she also has solid directorial chops as well – although her script leaves a bit to be desired. What we get with the film is a stellar starring turn from Piper, but a confused narrative that has […]
When I found out that Nine Perfect Strangers was adapted from a book (and that it was from Liane Moriarty, who also wrote Big Little Lies), many of the limited series’ shortfalls began to make sense – what can work on the page, and lend some depth to characters and stories, doesn’t always translate well […]