Comedy

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...

There are criticisms that apply to Love Next Door that are as true of Episodes 5 & 6 as they have been of the previous...

Romance in the House enters its second half with Episodes 7 and 8, thankfully focusing on the right areas – the parental relationship between Mi-rae...

English Teacher doesn’t make things easy for itself. In its two-part premiere – comprising Episode 1, “Pilot”, and Episode 2, “Powderpuff” – it establishes itself...

Look, Kaos is a big-budget Netflix series with a very good cast, so the chances of the ending actually being an ending and not an...

Episode 6 is the obligatory Big Reveal™ episode of Kaos, in which we learn what’s really going on in the Underworld with the Frame and...

Episode 5 of Kaos introduces a unique framing device, with the story being divided into three distinct but interlinked parts titled “Part I: Furies”, “Part...