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