TV Reviews

Kleo snuck onto Netflix on the back of successes like Salt and Atomic Blonde; female-driven espionage thrillers with a quirky sensibility and a stylized aesthetic....

Tokyo Swindlers is thrilling from start to finish. Despite my early cynicism in the earlier episodes, the Japanese crime thriller keeps the high-octane pace. I...

Yes, The Decameron is based on a pandemic, but we cannot avoid the “p” word forever. We are not entitled to only our recent history....

The decline of Sweet Home should be studied. It’s easy to forget just how good Season 1 was before a painfully long delay killed interest and...

For as good as Succession is, the epidemic of imitators it has caused can’t be overstated. The subgenre of “despicable rich people doing despicable rich...

There are precisely two kinds of jokes in Sausage Party: Foodtopia. The first is food puns, and the second is the visual gag of various...

Every now and again Netflix will indulge in a soapy telenovela with a preposterous number of episodes, and Desperate Lies fits the bill. A grim,...

Brought to you by the same people who produced Full Swing, Drive to Survive, and Break Point comes SPRINT, a sports docuseries following athletes competing...

With ridiculous leadership squabbles currently underway in both the U.S. and the U.K., two of Netflix’s most sizeable and vocal markets, the time seems right...

All eyes are on The Bear. It deserves the limelight: not only has it achieved perfect television at times, but it’s slowly earned its respect....

Thanks to the MCU’s rapid and drastic decline in quality and appeal, it’s easy to believe that superhero stories have had their day. But not...

I always find it funny when streaming companies compete with each other on niche genres; Hulu has The Great, Netflix has Bridgerton, and Prime Video...

No word of a lie, when I started writing this review, I wrote: “If someone told me that Esther Smith and Rafe Spall were together...

You can have too much of a good thing, and Gangs of Galicia proves it. The drug-fuelled international crime thriller is a beloved streaming mainstay,...

The main takeaway from AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is that being part of the team of dancers is not necessarily some popularity contest for your...

Sometimes you just know a show is going to be a hit. This instinct rarely has anything to do with quality, either. Miss Night and...

Indonesian film and TV is the most underrated in the world, for my money, and Joko Anwar proves it in Nightmares and Daydreams, an ambitious...

A show titled Doctor Climax knows what it’s doing. Sex sells, after all, especially on streaming platforms, and Netflix knows how to market an obscure...