Drama

In many of the ways that count, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the epitome of consistency. Much that was good about the first season is...

There are moments in Chloe Zhao’s The Rider that is so beautifully shot that I have a feeling the character Ricky from American Beauty would...

Sometime last year, the realisation dawned on me: Paddy Considine is a sublime actor. You don’t necessarily understand everything about his character, but you can’t...

For the same reason that passing motorists pull over to gawp at car crashes, I’m attracted to film and television that is mired in controversy....

At any point, on any given day, there are nearly 500,000 children in the foster care system in the United States. On average, children remain...

This recap of New Amsterdam Episode 9, “As Long as It Takes”, contains spoilers. Wednesday mornings are for plotting the downfall of my many enemies,...

The opening sequence in Raging Bull is for me among the very best moments in cinematic history. As a stand-alone sequence, the slow-motion shuffle of...

This series competes against the likes of the 60-episode-long Undercover Law and the 70-episode-long The Rise of Phoenixes. To be fair, Netflix Chinese drama Accidentally in Love is...

Alpha is a movie that still has me on the fence, months later, and perpetually so. For every moment that offers some thrills, you are...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 5, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Of all the totally unrealistic shit that...

Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) could sell condoms to the Pope. And that’s the secret weapon of New Amsterdam. Yes, his methods are ridiculous. Yes, his...

Sex, murder, drugs, blackmail and the usual high-school shenanigans are to be found in the eight-part soapy Spanish series Elite, which debuted on Netflix today....

Directed by Sara Colangelo, we review The Kindergarten Teacher (2018), which does not contain spoilers.  The Kindergarten Teacher, written and directed by Sara Colangelo, is...

The clock was ticking for everyone in New Amsterdam hospital during “Rituals”, most especially Max, who has two big problems. The first is that there’s...

The Wife opens with the fictional acclaimed writer and professor, Joel Casselman, waking up to a phone call from Stockholm, Sweden, in which he is...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 4, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) was so disappointing...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 3, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is useless. He’s...

The general consensus is that this season has been woefully under-par. The predictability is irritating and the quality of the writing is not what it...

We recap the series You Season 1 Episode 2, which will contain significant spoilers and major plot points. There’s more than one reason that You...

“Motion to Delay” was much better in the grand scheme of things. Season 8, episode 9 at least showed a continuation of some form, making...