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I’ve been writing about television for the past six years, and for much of that time, Emmy Nomination day was my second least-favorite day of the year (the Emmy Awards themselves were my least-favorite day, for a variety of reasons). Every Tuesday, I would read through the list of nominees and get angry over how […]
Catch-22Â is a celebrated satirical novel by Joseph Heller and has been adapted into a six-part miniseries for Hulu. In the UK the show is being broadcast on Channel 4. The series follows an American bomber squadron based in Italy during the Second World War. The first episode follows John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a bombardier who’s […]
The murder of James Bulger has had a massive impact on the British psyche. Not only was it a horrific crime but also due to the perpetrators being so young. This crime serves as the influence on the Scottish miniseries The Victim. Craig Myers (James Harkness) is a 28-year-old bus driver with a young family. His world is shattered when […]
I will admit that I was part of the camp of critics who thought Stranger Things probably should have ended after its initial season (I feel I should also admit that I didn’t really like that first season all that much). Then came Stranger Things 2, which I enjoyed even more than season one (although […]
I will admit I came pretty late to the Schitt’s Creek party, but I cannot tell you how glad I am that I arrived before the show ends its six season run next year. As a recent convert to the genius of Daniel Levy and this thoroughly delightful and wonderful world of misfits he has […]
Informer was a BBC miniseries described as a character-driven thriller which lasted for six episodes. Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is young British-Pakistani whose is is forced to infiltrate a terrorist cell by Gabe Waters (Paddy Considine), a detective for the Met’s Counter Terrorism unit. Gabe promises Raza that his mother would get a British passport if he’s successful, but if […]
After posting my thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery at the start of its second season, I said I would keep watching, hoping that things might turn out better than the mess that occurred with the show’s first season (although I didn’t hold out much hope that I would be a Discovery convert come the end […]
Note: This review contains spoilers for the entire first season of Gentleman Jack. If you haven’t watched the entire season, please read the review once you have. Gentleman Jack is a rarity in the TV world: a regency queer romance that is shored up by several great performances, where the show’s central lesbian couple actually […]
I think it’s safe to say that Netflix’s Black Mirror, once the toast of the television universe, has hit the point of diminished returns with its most recent four episodes (the series’s completed fifth season, which dropped this past week, and the interactive episode “Bandersnatch,” which aired at the end of 2018). What was once […]
Chernobyl, the excellent miniseries from HBO that recently completed its five-episode run, is many things. A story about a tragedy from the recent past, a look into the bureaucracy that plagued the Soviet Union in its waning years, a deep dive into the terrifying effects of nuclear power (and what it can do to help […]