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It’s not possible to tell the entire complex history of The Troubles in a single nine-episode limited series. It’s not even possible to adapt the entirety of Patrick Radden Keefe’s searingly interesting 2018 book, “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” into a nine-episode limited series. But the series Josh […]
I’m not usually one to tackle nonfiction books. Something about reading nonfiction brings me back to my school days (man, that sentence makes me sound ancient), and I can’t help but feel as if I need to take notes in order to regurgitate things back in the form of a paper. And, let’s face it, […]
When watching the first season of HBO’s huge hit series White Lotus* back in 2021, I remember thinking, “Natasha Rothwell is something special. I can’t wait to see her in a starring role.” Well, with How to Die Alone, the excellent new dark comedy series that premieres later this week on Hulu, the world gets […]
When news broke that season four of Only Murders in the Building was going Hollywood – in that the characters would be spending some time in LA while a film version of season one of their podcast was produced, I was worried about what that meant for the series as a whole. After all, as […]
It’s a universal truth that anyone who has been an adolescent girl (or has had an adolescent daughter) knows: Adolescent girls are absolutely ruthless. Think “Lord of the Flies” was a terrifying look at what adolescent boys can do? A version of that story with young girls would have been twice as cut-throat. Trust me. […]
I know that subtitles are divisive. Sure, a lot of people automatically subtitle everything they watch on TV now, but when it’s a foreign language series or film that requires English speakers to rely on those same subtitles to understand the dialogue, for some reason, people can get a bit put off by it. And […]
Spy x Family is an action spy comedy based on Tatsuya Endo’s manga. It is directed and written by Takahiro Harada. The first season aired in two cours/parts from April to December 2022. Kazuhiro Furuhashi directed and wrote that season. Wit Studio and CloverWorks produce this series. The latter studio is known for Akebi’s Sailor […]
Over the past decade, the entertainment industry has seen drastic changes. There has been the rise of streaming services, a focus on big-budget films based on recognisable intellectual property, and an increase in digital media sales at the cost of physical media. In 2023, the Hollywood business model suffered from the detrimental effects of short-term […]
In the last five years of so, there’s been a resurgence of the murder mystery as a viable story both on the big and small screen. From Kenneth Branagh’s insistence on portraying Hercule Poirot in a series of Agatha Christie adaptations, to Rian Johnson’s excellent Knives Out series, to Only Murders in the Building becoming […]
In my last post, I chose ten (Western) animated series which I felt were the best of 2023. However, of the over 40 reviews I wrote in the past year, 14 of them were anime. Originally I was planning to make this a top 10 list, but I decided that was too limiting, and added […]