POLAR (2019)
byThe world’s top assassin is about to retire when his employer marks him as a liability to the firm, so must go head to head with an army of younger killers…
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 2.2 – ‘New Eden’
byThis 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
byA 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’
byThe 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)
byFleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
BLACK MIRROR – ‘Bandersnatch’
byA 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
byRoberto 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
byIf 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
bySeason 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)
byManiac 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’
bySinging 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
byThe 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…