Comedy

Bad Monkey is back in form in Episode 8, “The Russian Mob Is Very Active in Key West”. And this is good news since we’re...

Episode 5 of English Teacher uses a classic workplace sitcom setup: Getting everyone out of the workplace. In this case, it’s a field trip that...

His Three Daughters is a remarkable film that, at its best, is a reminder of what film can be, what it can mean and to...

That was more like it, right? Episode 2 of Agatha All Along – wordily titled “Circle Sewn With Fate / Unlock Thy Hidden Gate” –...

It has only been three years since we were last there, but for some reason, Westview, New Jersey, holds a certain amount of nostalgia. I...

There’s a grace and efficiency with which Slow Horses moves through its plot that is genuinely admirable. There are a lot of moving parts here in Season...

Deon Cole is a seasoned comedian, which based on his third Netflix special, Ok, Mister, is not an adjective he’d like. He prefers “vintage”, which is,...

English Teacher Episode 4, “School Safety”, deals with two important issues — the responsible use of firearms in the well-armed State of Texas, and the fact...

The ending of Officer Black Belt sums up the theme that has been running throughout the entire movie – the burgeoning sense of duty and...

There’s a problem with Officer Black Belt, a well-intentioned Netflix movie about an athletic idealist punching and kicking recidivism out of South Korean criminals –...

The ending of a musical movie is usually a big performance, and while Technoboys gets there eventually, it’s beside the point. Instead, the Netflix movie...

Netflix’s Technoboys has its work cut out for it. It isn’t easy being a parodical musical comedy in a world where Popstar: Never Stop Never...

Yancy spends most of Bad Monkey Episode 6 languishing in jail for reasons we’ll get to in a minute, which is not as disappointing a development as...

Slow Horses Season 4 continues a string of rather obvious titling practices with Episode 2, “A Stranger Comes to Town”, which is about, among other...

River Cartwright is dead. Not really, of course, but the premiere of Slow Horses Season 4 would you like you to believe so, at least...

The brilliance of English Teacher — and I’m ready, I think, even after three episodes, to say the show is brilliant — is how it handles potentially...

It would be an incredibly bold move for a crime drama to kill off its lead detective halfway through the season, so it’s perhaps just...

In Episode 10, Romance in the House finally digs deeper into Moo-jin’s past while continuing to deliver solid moments in the core relationships. Just two...

I had a thought while watching Episode 9 of Romance in the House – this is more like it. In the previous episode, Mi-rae and...

We’re into the back half of Love Next Door now, and I’m starting to get worried. Not about the show, of course – Episode 7...