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‘Lost in Starlight’ Review – A Beautiful Animated Romance Treads New Ground
Lost in Starlight is something of a first. It has been branded as Netflix’s first Korean animated feature, which is technically accurate, despite the prevalence...
‘Mad Unicorn’ Review – Thai Netflix Series Tells A Lively True Story
A unicorn in a business context refers to a privately owned startup company valued at over a billion dollars. Whether it’s mad or not seems...
‘Dept. Q’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Provides A Lot Of Well-Earned Payoff
The ending of Dept. Q is all about payoff, which is perhaps just as well given how long it took us to get here. The mystery of...
‘Dept. Q’ Review – Netflix’s Answer to ‘Slow Horses’ Is A Little Too Long For Its Own Good
The comparison to Slow Horses is unavoidable and unfortunately does Netflix’s Dept. Q no favours. An adaptation from Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit) of the...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – Expected Developments Lose Some Small-Town Intimacy
Ladies and gentlemen, Tastefully Yours has reached the stage of any self-respecting romantic K-Drama where the giggly first-date awkwardness permeates the whole thing, which is coming a little earlier than expected after the ending of the previous episode.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Ending Explained – A Slightly Random Conclusion Caps Off A Mixed-Bag Season
It’s probably fitting that a show as mixed as Heavenly Ever After has an ending to suit, with Episodes 11 and 12 providing some answers...
‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review – Standalone Slasher Fails to Live Up To Its Title
Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...
‘Sirens’ Review – Crackling Class Satire Gives Way To A Truly Moving Family Drama
In Greek mythology, sirens were creatures who lured sailors to their deaths with beautiful singing and a fetching feminine top half, hiding some sort of...
‘She the People’ Part 1 Ending Explained – A Major Cliffhanger Tees Up Season 2
You know when a show is released in two parts – as is the case with Tyler Perry’s She the People – that the “ending”...
‘She the People’ Review – For Once, Tyler Perry Is Actually Trying to Be Funny
Everything Tyler Perry does is funny, usually for entirely the wrong reasons. On that level, at least, She the People feels like a step in the right...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 4 Recap – Another Fun Team-Building Exercise
Tastefully Yours is still in that early team-building stage, as evidenced by Episode 4, which uses the tried and tested technique of a bit of competition to solidify the core dynamics.
‘Sarah Silverman: PostMortem’ Review – A Deeply Personal Show Still Finds the Laughs
Dark humour is a safety mechanism, a release valve for when the pressure of real life gets too much to handle. If we can laugh...
‘Untold: The Fall of Favre’ Review – An Eye-Opening Insight Into Power and Privilege
Well, we’d better be careful with this one, folks. You can say a lot about Brett Favre, but at least you can’t accuse him of...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 3 Recap – The Ingredients Are Beginning to Come Together
As much as I’ll always relish the opportunity for food puns, I should start taking Tastefully Yours a bit more seriously since, as of Episode 3, it’s really starting to cohere.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 9 & 10 Recap – The Best Double-Bill Yet Finally Finds Some Depth
There’s probably a case to be made that nine episodes into a 12-episode season is too late for a show to get good. But this is also likely underselling Heavenly Ever After, which has always been “good”, so to speak, and has mostly just failed to progress beyond that.
‘Football Parents’ Ending Explained – Team Spirit Wins the Day… Almost
Having thought about it a bit, I’m still not sure whether Football Parents has a happy ending or not. I suppose it depends on who...
‘Football Parents’ Review – A Celebration Of Difference That Sometimes Makes Its Point Too Forcefully
I am, for my sins, a football parent, so there’s a lot I find familiar about the Dutch Netflix comedy Football Parents. The general inability...
‘Bet’ Ending Explained – Yumeko and Kira Go All In Against Each Other
Blackjack! Murder! Revenge! All the elements you’d expect from Bet’s ending are present and correct in Episode 10, “Winner Takes All”, as well as the...