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After two strong episodes, the third episode of This Way Up seemed more like a filler episode in the series. Aine (Aisling Bea) has to stay with her sister, Shona (Sharon Horgan), and Shona’s partner, Vish (Aasif Mandvi) due to rats being found in Aine’s flat. During her stay, Shona plans to set her younger sister up […]
I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of Netflix’s Mindhunter. I loved the quasi-procedural nature of the series (something I rarely enjoy in television), as the show explored the elements that made some of the country’s most violent serial killers tick. But, despite enjoying watching the investigations and the nascent stages of criminal profiling develop, season […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a woman who has had a meteoric rise in the British TV industry. At the age of 34 she has created two hit shows for the BBC, Killing Eve and Fleabag. She chooses to make a second and supposedly final season to the award-winning Fleabag. The second season picks up a year after the first. Tensions are running […]
Traditionally, stories about The Troubles aren’t comedies. But, aside from its historical setting in the early to mid-1990s, there isn’t much traditional about the exquisite Derry Girls, a series that follows four Catholic school girls in Northern Ireland (and one English school boy – I’ll get to that explanation later) as they navigate their teen […]
Following on from the strong opening This Way Up continues in that vein with Aine trying to take too much at once. In this episode Aine has agreed to tutor a French boy who has recently moved to London. But the commitment to the boy is tested when one of her EFL student, Victor (Todor Jordanov), has […]
I know I said I was jumping off the Handmaid’s Tale train after the show was unable to craft a coherent story outside the confines of Margaret Atwood’s novel in season two, but Hulu generously continued to provide me with screeners for season three, so I decided to see if the show could right the […]
Warning: This piece will spoil the entire third season of Netflix’s comedy GLOW. So, if you haven’t watched season three yet, fire up your Netflix account and get on it. Seriously, it’s only 10 episodes, and most are under 35 minutes. You can handle that. There’s so much to love about GLOW: The complex characters. […]
This Way Up is a new comedy created by Irish comedian Aisling Bea and it has been heavily promoted by Channel 4 as a part of their Summer of Comedy. Aine (Bea) is a young woman who has spent time at a rehab facility after succumbing to a nervous breakdown. Four months after leaving the facility she’s […]
Catch-22 closes with its sixth episode, building up to its emotional climax for Yossarian. After parachuting out of a plane at the end of the last episode Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) arrives at an Italian villa bleeding from his testicles. He gets patched up and has a moment of bliss with an Italian family but it has to end […]
The fifth episode of Catch-22 is the shortest and darkest episode in the season so far. After the mission that led to Nately’s (Austin Stowell) death, Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) and Korn (Kevin J. O’Conner) punish Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) by promoting him and giving him a medal for bravery. Yossarian goes AWOL to find Nately’s whore and tell […]