2015: The Best Things We Saw This Year
It wouldn’t be late-December without an exhaustive number of end-of-year lists appearing online, looking back on the year’s great and terrible. It would be...
JESSICA JONES – Season One
Whereas Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is tethered to the unfolding sprawl of Marvel’s cinematic universe (with The Avengers as elephants-in-the-room), Netflix have found a smarter way...
BEASTS OF NO NATION (2015)
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director, writer, producer and cinematographer of Beasts of No Nation, has an eye for striking images. Which is a good...
Blood Feud: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN vs THE STRAIN
It’s a good time to be alive if you’re a fan of vampires. Or appreciate horror being beamed directly into your front room, weekly,...
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK – Season Three
And now for something a little different. Orange is the New Black’s showrunner Jenji Kohan set herself a tough task following up the first two...
SENSE8 – Season One
Having invigorated sci-fi action with 1999’s The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski have struggled to match their cyberpunk sensation. Two inferior sequels followed in 2003,...
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season One
The Office‘s Ellie Kemper is utterly fantastic in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, playing the eponymous heroine rescued from a doomsday cult, having spent fifteen years...
DAREDEVIL – Season One
The first of Netflix’s quartet of Marvel-produced comic-book dramas, Daredevil wisely introduces the character closest to being a household name—although The Man Without Fear’s last mainstream...
BLOODLINE – Season One
Created by the troika behind FX’s legal thriller Damages—Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman—Netflix’s Bloodline is a very different show on the surface, but the...