Comedy, Television
TV: Oh Jerome, No
Mamoudou Athie made a distinct impression in the somber, surreal horror series Archive 81, and it made me curious…
March 18, 2023-
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Comedy, Drama, Mystery, TelevisionTV: Poker Face (Season 1)
On one level, it’s surprising a show like Poker Face could succeed in the current TV landscape, but on…
March 16, 2023 -
Drama, TelevisionTV: Fleishman is in Trouble
Voiceover narration can be a real turn-off, but Fleishman is in Trouble uses the device to good effect, giving…
March 7, 2023 -
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: John from Cincinnati
Like most of the universe, I missed the train on John from Cincinnati, a one-season failure from co-creators Kem…
February 25, 2023 -
Drama, Television, ThrillerTV: The Head (Season 2)
We can add a new motivation to my list for figuring out what to watch next: will the streaming…
February 11, 2023 -
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: 1899
It’s easy to see why Netflix’s 1899 was green-lit. A complex, period mystery box set on a ship, from…
February 6, 2023 -
Comedy, TelevisionTV: The Sex Lives of College Girls (Seasons 1 & 2)
Having enjoyed previous Mindy Kaling projects, I, well, still wasn’t particularly interested in The Sex Lives of College Girls,…
February 6, 2023 -
Comics, Science Fiction, Television, ThrillerTV: Alice in Borderland (Season 1 & 2)
Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
February 1, 2023 -
Comedy, Drama, TelevisionTV: Dead to Me (Season 3)
Who needs protagonists with the moral high ground? Not Dead to Me, a winning dark comedy that turned its…
January 28, 2023 -
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes…
January 16, 2023 -
Comedy, TelevisionTV: Derry Girls (Season 3)
The concluding season of Derry Girls is a fucking delight. This will surprise nobody who enjoyed the earlier run,…
January 15, 2023 -
Spies, TelevisionTV: Tehran (Season 2)
While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses,…
January 9, 2023 -
Comedy, TelevisionTV: Mythic Quest (Season 3)
The third season of Mythic Quest remains an amusing, effortlessly watched entry in Apple’s catalogue, even if it doesn’t…
January 7, 2023 -
Fiction, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Slow Horses (Season 2)
In year chock-full of wonderful shows, Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the intricate, funny spy novels of Mick Herron,…
December 31, 2022 -
Comedy, Drama, TelevisionTV: High Fidelity
When I put on High Fidelity (2020), I was just looking for something light and casual to fold laundry…
December 27, 2022