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A chill is in the air (at least in the Midwest and New England – sorry rest of the country) and fall is just around the corner. Which means it’s once again time for the Emmy Awards – a night for the television folks to pat themselves on the back for another year of way […]
Robert the Bruce is seen as one of Scotland’s greatest heroes. He was the man who liberated Scotland from the English. David Mackenzie and Netflix adapted this period of history for the film Outlaw King. In 1304 the Scottish rebel William Wallace has been captured and executed, ending his rebellion. The Scottish nobility pay homage to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I suspect many of you haven’t heard of Another Life, Netflix’s attempt at a gritty, complex sci-fi series that dropped on the same weekend as the final season of Orange is the New Black. I honestly hadn’t heard about it until I signed into Netflix and saw that Katee Sackoff (best known for her stellar […]
The end of Orange is the New Black marks the end of an era for streaming television. It might be hard to fathom now, but when Netflix launched Orange is the New Black and House of Cards within months of each other in 2013, no one was sure if the nascent television network (which, until […]
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 […]
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 […]