STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 2.2 – ‘New Eden’
This felt like classic Star Trek, I’m pleased to say. “New Eden” may have relied on well-worn formulas and ideas, but it was a good...
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season Three
A Series of Unfortunate Events was never going to give us a fairy tale ending. The narrator, Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton), has told us...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 2.1 – ‘Brother’
The long-awaited return of Star Trek to weekly television resulted in a mixed reception, as Discovery opted to follow a similar aesthetic and pace...
WATERSHIP DOWN (2018)
Fleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
BLACK MIRROR – ‘Bandersnatch’
A young programmer dreams of turning a fantasy novel into a 'choose your own adventure' game for a big software company but, in the attempt, his own reality becomes weirdly disoriented...
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA – Season One
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s edgier interpretation of Archie Comics’ Sabrina the Teenage Witch debuted in comic-book form in 2014, so this Netflix drama is more accurately...
DAREDEVIL – Season Three
If the first season of Daredevil was the birth of a superhero, and the second was the exploration of teenage angst, then season three...
THE CROWN – Season Two
Season 2 of The Crown will forever be known as the time the Royals got racy. It begins in 1957, continuing to blend the...
MANIAC (Netflix, 2018)
Maniac isn’t a hard show to understand. It also doesn’t have the most original of sci-fi ideas, being about two people who take drugs...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.10 – ‘Winner’
Singing siblings. We opened on a touching flashback that gave us another welcome chance to see Chuck (Michael McKean), during the time when Jimmy...
BOJACK HORSEMAN – Season Five
The fifth season of BoJack Horseman finds the titular washed-up actor on the road to recovery, of sorts. He’s working again, on a moody...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.9 – ‘Wiedersehen’
Taking and making plans. Having enjoyed herself with the con to keep Huell from doing time, the opening of “Wiedersehen” involved another scam. Kim (Rhea...