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The fifth and penultimate episode of This Way Up is one that shows off both the strengths and weaknesses of the series. Aine (Aisling Bea) agrees to meet her ex-boyfriend Freddie (Chris Greer) at a bar after work. After some drinks and games of pools, Aine has a night of fun with her flatmate, Bradley (Kadiff Kirwan) […]
The second episode of Sanditon sees more build-up of the various plotlines and sees a budding friendship between two of the main characters. The introduction of Miss Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke) at the ball caused quite a stir in Sanditon. Lady Denham (Anne Reid) plans to host a luncheon in Miss Lambe’s honour, much to Miss Lambe’s […]
After the story-lite Episode 3, This Way Up returns to form with the fourth episode. Aine (Aisling Bea) and Shona (Sharon Horgan) are set to attend a birthday party for Vish’s father (Jeff Mirza). Their mother (Sorcha Cusack) has also been invited which is awkward for Aine since it’s the first time the two have seen each […]
Costume dramas and classic literature adaptations are often a staple of British television. Sanditon was the latest example of this – an adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel. Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) was a young, attractive woman living on her family estate with 11 siblings. When a carriage crashes nearby the Heywoods help the occupants, Tom […]
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 […]