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…
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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…
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.9 – ‘Wiedersehen’
byTaking and making plans. Having enjoyed herself with the con to keep Huell from doing time, the opening of “Wiedersehen” involved another scam. Kim (Rhea…
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.8 – ‘Coushatta’
byA good defence is a good offence. The opening scenes of “Coushatta” confused me, making me forget where things had left off in “Something Stupid”….
IRON FIST – Season Two
byThe first season of Iron Fist was plagued with issues: it had too many villains, too little character development, terrible action scenes, a lack…
SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER (2018)
byA case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.7 – ‘Something Stupid’
bySplitting up. Famed for its excellent cold opens, Better Call Saul offered up the best one in a long time with the split-screen sequence…