It’s been a true epic in many senses, however we finally made it through to the end of Season 1. I think I’ve come to accept that this show is fundamentally a historical-fantasy-soap-opera, and realistically the plot doesn’t tend to
Brave New World
This forces me to confess I haven’t read the Aldous Huxley book… but SURELY it doesn’t have all that fucking in it. Does it? Hmm. ANYWAY – it sorta teeters on the bullshittish for a long way, before tipping right
Prodigal Son
I think we bailed on this after 5 episodes, which I feel’s a reasonable tilt at it. In truth I think we picked this up for the wrong reasons – i.e. that it had Michael Sheen attached to it. Son
Humans – Season 3
Tricky bridging season with a bunch of half-sucked plotlines, which I’m relieved they managed to resolve all of. At least it was a relief to see a story concluded before turning into more post-Sopranos character-interaction based endless TV.
Homeland – Season 8
The final chapter in Carrie Matheson’s Crazy Adventures, in which Claire Danes has buried the image of the impish smile from Romeo+Juliet & replaced it with a kind of gorilla-like gurning… but then, I guess the content’s rather different. It
Diriliş: Ertuğrul – Season 1
So… TECHNICALLY I shouldn’t put this in a roundup, because we haven’t finished watching it. However it really rates a mention, owing to the fact that in its original broadcast form I believe each episode is movie-length. What Netflix cunningly
Bridgerton
I somehow got talked into this and immediately wondered if I’d made the wrong move, given how tedious I find Jane Austen et al. This was definitely no Downton Abbey though, and by episode 5 was bordering on Game of
The Undoing
Nicole Kidman’s been tackling some really interesting & difficult stuff the last few years, and putting her opposite Hugh Grant who’s also doing similar made for a very compelling if disturbing story to unfold, stripping back layers & lies, and
Billions – Season 5 (1-7)
Seems that the filming of Billions got caught in the COVID trap, because only the first 7 episodes of season 5 have been published. The ongoing dance between Rhoades, Axelrod and Mason sees Rhoades back in the US Attorney’s office
Secret City – Season 2
Drama series centred around CIA-equivalent in Australia (ASD – Australian Signals Directorate), with Anna Torv in the lead role – an actor who I keep forgetting is Australian due to having first seen her in Fringe and Mindhunter. This season