Note: This review contains some mild spoilers for season 5 of The Boys. Back in 2019, The Boys burst onto the scene by having a supe burst through an actual person. This year, we have the fifth and final season, and it is an absolutely wild ride to an explosive …
In retrospect, it makes sense that EP Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy were always going to be the ones to bring Fallout to the screen – after all; what was HBO’s one-time flagship series Westworld if but a trail run? What was Person of Interest if not for a show …
2004’s Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington (based on a book of the same name from 1980), existed as a seminal film of its time. Twenty-four years after its release, the film has cemented its place in the action movie pantheon. In my younger film-watching years, it existed as a …
Before discussing Hacks season five, I would like to give some context into my relationship with the show. Hacks premiered in 2021 as one of the first highly acclaimed MAX (Known as HBO Max at the time) series. Having started watching the show at the time, it became one of …
Welcome back to 1980s Rutshire where a small community of upper-class folk spend their lives sleeping with people who are not their wives, trying to steal the jobs of their romantic rivals and generally tear each other down. Based on characters created by the late Jilly Cooper, the gang are …
Based on James McBride’s award-winning novel, the 2020 Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird takes an uproariously irreverent approach to some of the most tumultuous times in United States history – namely, militant abolitionist John Brown and his 1859 raid on the US military armoury at Harper’s Ferry, events that …
Neo-noir Americana gets a decidedly 21st-century update in The Lowdown, showrunner Sterlin Harjo’s latest series released at the end of 2025 and now streaming on Hulu / Disney+. Like the best of the classic noirs, the anxieties of our time might be bubbling away under the surface, but this is …
Malcolm in the Middle ran right while I was in the midst of my baby-having years. I had four kids from 1998-2003 (no twins!), and watching Hal and Lois navigate their life helped me feel a little less crazy with my own household. Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair …
We first meet Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) on their wedding day. The couple are meeting at the end of the aisle, but it hardly looks like a joyous day. She pulls up her veil, a look of terror on her face, something very bad is going to …
Sometimes when you get good at keeping secrets, you can start to lose track of what the truth even is. In her new series Imperfect Women, Annie Weisman examines the story of three best friends confronting the secrets they kept that may have led to the murder of one of …
It has taken decades, but Patricia Cornwell’s iconic literary character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, has finally been brought to life. Nicole Kidman takes on the role of the unrelenting chief medical examiner trying to prove that the case that made her career wasn’t based on misinformation. Scarpetta is more than your …
Dan Fogelman’s political thriller returns for a second season, reimagining itself as a post-apocalyptic drama more akin to The Last Of Us. It’s a season full of twists that even the most avid TV watcher won’t expect, as the writers continue to take risks that mostly pay off. In season …
The first series in a name chronology series from super-producer Ryan Murphy follows the tragic romance of JFK’s son, John F Kennedy, and publicist Carolyn Bessette. Based on Elizabeth Beller’s book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the limited series charts the couple’s whirlwind romance, marriage …
The creative team behind Derry Girls returns with the comedy thriller, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. The show marks a darker shift for creator, writer, and executive producer Lisa McGee, with fans of her previous work likely expecting something darker. After the death of their school friend, flighty …
In 1976, the genius puppeteer Jim Henson released his masterpiece The Muppets Show. Despite early versions of the characters in decades before, such as Kermit the Frog in a short-form production in the 1950s, the TV show popularized Kermit and his gang. Again, Henson crystallized himself in the American popular …
The representation of queerness in the past decade on TV has found itself on an uptick. Shows like Heartstopper, Queer Eye, Modern Family, and Schitt’s Creek have led the charge in normalising the existence of queer people on television, and therefore in life. Despite the challenges the queer characters face …
It wouldn’t be a lie to say it’s been a fairly tumultuous year for one of the BBC’s flagship franchises Doctor Who. Not only was the second series of Russell T Davies’ soft reboot of the show met with low ratings, both critically and in viewership, but Ncuti Gatwa the …
In the early 1950s, the legendary French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma popularized a new manner of analyzing cinema. Hence, the politique des auteurs (auteur theory) became their central thesis, in which film criticism analyzed films through the lens of the whole and the filmmaker’s style. Thus, in a subsequent consequence …
The Pitt felt like the best of before-times TV, before streaming and big-budget miniseries with dramatic cliffhangers took over the genre. Here we have 15 solid episodes full of an interesting ensemble of characters, a well-balanced mix of comedy and tragedy, and that address a range of relevant topics. Set …
Industry has never been a show to shy away from the grotesque side of humanity. Set in the world of investment banking, the series has evolved from a story about a group of newbies at an investment firm, into something more sinister. Season 4 feels like the show has grown …