TV Reviews

Nothing about Prime Video’s Malice should work. It’s very silly, totally implausible, and stars Jack Whitehall, of all people, not as bumbling comic relief but...

It’s usually reductive to compare one show to another, especially when the shows being compared are very good award-winning prestige dramas and/or impossibly popular global...

There’s a very specific tension to Netflix’s four-part docuseries Marines, and it’s the promise – not a suggestion, the outright guarantee – of war. Nobody’s...

Today is either the absolute best or the absolute worst time to release a very mainstream miniseries about political violence, so credit is due to...

I’ll be the first to admit that if I never see another drama about social media influencers, it’ll probably be too soon. And yet here...

Let’s just get the elephant in the room out of the way – Liam Hemsworth is fine. Sure, he’s visibly doing an impression of Henry...

There’s a very compelling argument to be made that, at least under Disney, Star Wars: Visions is the most interesting and perhaps even important project...

I already liked Nightmares of Nature. It was a great idea – balancing the education of nature documentaries with the entertainment of a classically styled...

As someone who watches a lot of film and TV, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of undercover work. What I’m primarily interested in...

The work of Harlan Coben is perfectly suited to our current era of relentless home entertainment, where audiences swallow stories wholesale and barely have time...

At first blush, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia is a fairly run-of-the-mill Netflix docuseries. It’s littered with talking heads, packed with detail and important...

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is pretty good, and it’s also likely to annoy almost everyone who watches it. At this point, Ubisoft’s edging of long-time franchise fans...

If there’s a right month to resurrect a person, it’s probably October. Netflix is certainly banking on this, anyway, since their nine-part Taiwanese original The...

Typically, the worst thing about any documentary is the supposedly dramatic re-enactments. Famously terrible, the lot of them. The concise elevator pitch of Netflix’s True...

Coming as a surprise to precisely nobody, the video game industry is pretty aggressively male-dominated. That’s a reality that is, thankfully, beginning to change, but...

I’ve often criticised Blumhouse for treating the horror genre as a conveyor belt of lowest-common-denominator cliches, and as we enter October, I’m sure I’ll have...

Some shows get people in the door with a premise alone, and such is the case with Billionaire’s Bunker, another effort from beloved Spanish creative...

While watching Maledictions, it occurred to me that more shows should have the confidence to only run for three episodes. And you’d think, at least...