Comedy

I often wonder–though the answer is obvious–why live-action remakes of animated movies are made. From an artistic perspective, you could argue that the merit is...

I’ve been cattily picking at Murderbot ever since it debuted, but in Episode 6, I felt like it was finally learning its lesson.

You can’t trust a great cast these days. Fountain of Youth had a pretty good one, and it was rubbish, which is always the expectation...

The risk with making a laid-back chill-out movie is that there’s such a thing as a movie being too chilled out for its own good,...

I caught myself thinking during Episode 4 that Stick has made a pretty fundamental miscalculation.

In a classic case of having one’s cake and eating it – never understood that expression; what else would you do with a cake? –...

Blimey, this is going to annoy people, isn’t it? The underlying thesis of Our Times, a Netflix rom-com about two married physicists who accidentally travel...

We were right. We usually are, of course, and a happy ending was more predictable than usual as far as Tastefully Yours is concerned, but...

Let’s be frank – we’ve pretty much known since the beginning that Tastefully Yours is going to have a predictable, happy ending.

Thus far, Murderbot has done a pretty good job of balancing its comedy with its drama. But it’s always a fine line.

I’m perfectly happy to admit that enjoying Tires is contingent on liking the comedy of Shane Gillis. Granted, Gillis co-created the show alongside co-star Steve...

It’s impossible to talk about Stick without mentioning Ted Lasso, since the rubric for beloved sports comedies was defined by AFC Richmond’s adventures on Apple TV+.

The great measure of how much we like the characters in the shows we watch is how we respond to them being legitimately heartbroken, and that’s the territory that Tastefully Yours finally ventures into in Episode 8.

I wasn’t keen on Tastefully Yours across its last couple of episodes, which seemed to miss the point of the show’s breezy small-town charm a little bit.

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...

Murderbot still has the usual problems in Episode 4, namely being too rushed and clipped for its own good, but “Escape Velocity Protocol” brings everything together well despite those quibbles.

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.

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...

I’ve identified a key issue in Murderbot. To be fair, I mentioned it in my recap of the two-part premiere, and nothing has changed; it’s just twice as noticeable because Episode 3 is obviously half as long.

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...