TV REVIEW: The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance – Season 1
It wasn’t until fairly recently that I watched the original Dark Crystal movie and fell a bit in love with it. It made me both excited and apprehensive for the Netflix prequel series. Would it stay...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Witcher – Season 1
Witcher, Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) travels The Continent as a monster hunter for hire, reviled by the very people he works for. On finding himself in the court of Queen Calanthe of Cintra he is...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Girls – Season 5
Season 5 of Girls opens will Marnie’s (Allison Williams) extremely ill-advised wedding to Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). Despite the fact that all Marnie’s friends are very aware that she is making a...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Pose – Season 2
Season 2 of Pose sees the world of Ballroom explode into the mainstream when Madonna’s hit single, Vogue tops the charts. Suddenly the world wants to know all about the subculture and the legendary...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: AJ and the Queen – Season 1
Ruby Red/Robert Lee (RuPaul Charles) is a legendary New York drag performer who has been saving his entire life to open his own club. On the eve of signing the lease to his club, Robert discovers that...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness
We’ve all heard the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction” but never has this been more apt than in the world of Netflix’s latest true crime documentary Tiger King. Tiger King follows the story of...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Dear White People – Volume 2
Season 2 of Dear White People picks up after the dramatic conclusion of season one. Sam (Logan Browning) and Gabe (John Patrick Amedori) are apart and at war, Troy (Brandon P. Bell) has ruined the...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: How to Get Away With Murder – Season 1
Every year unconventional Criminal Law professor, Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) chooses five students to be her interns. In exchange for this opportunity they must work for free for her law firm...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Haunting of Bly Manor
It’s the spookiest time of the year so when I saw that The Haunting of Bly Manor had appeared on Netflix a couple of weeks ago it seemed like perfect timing. American nanny, Dani (Victoria Pedretti)...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – Limited Series
Turning to scary stuff of the more real variety, today’s Halloween week review looks at I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, a recent miniseries from HBO (available on Sky/NowTV in the UK). This series looks at...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Dead to Me – Season 2
Season two of Dead to Me kicks off with Jen (Christina Applegate) reeling after Steve’s demise and lying to Judy (Linda Cardellini) about the exact details of the incident. As the two attempt to...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Dear White People – Volume 3
The third volume of Dear White People sees Sam (Logan Brown) returning to campus disillusioned after her meeting with Rikki Carter. And she’s not the only one. Lionel (DeRon Horton) is writing fiction...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Criminal: UK (Season 2)
Last year Netflix treated us to Criminal a collection of three part mini-series that focused on crime suspects being interviewed in connection with a crime. The original version featured interviews...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Fall – Season 1
After the daughter of a prominent Northern Irish developer is murdered, Senior Investigator, Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) is called in to do an enquiry into the case. It doesn’t take her long to...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Queen’s Gambit – Limited Series
The Queen’s Gambit follows the trials and tribulations of Beth Harmon (Isla Johnston/Annabeth Kelly/Anya Taylor-Joy) as she makes a bid to become the greatest chess player in the world. I think if...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Crown – Season 4
Season 4 of British Royal famly drama, The Crown, focuses largely on Prince Charles’ (Josh O’Connor) early marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales (Emma Corrin) and Margaret Thatcher’s (Gillian Anderson)...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: The Fall – Season 2
Season two of The Fall picks up so seamlessly from season one that in my binge-watch I didn’t immediately realise that I had moved onto a new season. While the first season was focused on the murders...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Part 4
Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) is back and this time she’s dealing with the fact that Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle) has decided to release the Eldritch Terrors into the world. The Terrors are series of...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Bridgerton – Season 1
Set in Regency era London, Bridgerton follows the lives of the eight Bridgerton siblings as they navigate the challenges of upper class society in the Ton. The first season focuses on eldest daughter,...
View ArticleTV REVIEW: Limited Series – Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
The Night Stalker otherwise known as Richard Ramirez is one of the notorious serial killers in American history. Ramirez terrorised the Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay area from June 1984...
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