BETTER CALL SAUL, 2.1 – ‘Switch’
[usr 3.5] The shadow of Breaking Bad loomed heavy over Better Call Saul last year. I was quietly confident this spin-off would make for...
FEBRUARY 2016: The Best of TV & Film
February is less than 24-hours away, so below you’ll find Frame Rated’s pick of the best new/returning television shows, cinema releases, and video-on-demand exclusives...
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
[usr 4.0] 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...
BEASTS OF NO NATION (2015)
[usr 2] Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director, writer, producer and cinematographer of Beasts of No Nation, has an eye for striking images. Which is...
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
[usr 4.0] And now for something a little different. Orange is the New Black’s showrunner Jenji Kohan set herself a tough task following up the...
SENSE8 – Season One
[usr 3.0] 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...
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season One
[usr 4.0] 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...
DAREDEVIL – Season One
[usr 5.0] 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...
BLOODLINE – Season One
[usr 3.5] 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,...