Stranger Things is a good show. It’s not great, it’s not revolutionary or game changing, but it’s good. Very good at times. After becoming the surprise breakout hit of last year, there was a lot riding on the second season. Would it live up to the hype? Would it just repeat the same story...
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Setting: The break room of a depressing office building. Charles, a high functioning alcoholic, sits alone nursing a cup of coffee and fighting a massive hangover. He scrolls through his phone and continually loosens his tie. Enter Daniel, a low functioning alcoholic who has bits of egg on his face. He seems very upset....
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They should have let Amanda Knox talk more. When she’s sitting there on screen, going through the details of what happened to her and describing the ordeal she went through, the latest true crime documentary that everyone will have an opinion about is insightful and engaging. The film is unabashedly Pro-Knox—-and really, how could...
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Preacher looks and acts like a prestige drama. The pilot episode took its time establishing the characters and setting up their world, there were meaningful conversations about faith, more than a few hints about the titular hero’s tragic backstory, loads of questions with hardly any answers, and some not-so-subtle social commentary. A passing glance at...
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Unless you are a crazy TV buff who is perfectly in tune to every single series out there, you quite possibly could have missed the premiere of the fantastic new drama Underground. This is a show that follows the story of slaves on a plantation in Georgia in the 1850’s that are preparing to...
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Last week saw Netflix drop the second season of a brilliant, critically acclaimed crime drama. Nope, not Daredevil. I’m talking about the outstanding Happy Valley. Adored by critics here and across the pond, the show has failed to catch on with American audiences the way programs like Broadchurch or The Fall have. If those...
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Season two of Daredevil dropped onto Netflix yesterday and I watched all 13 episodes in a binge. To the show’s credit, the time flew by pretty damn quickly. I was a huge fan of season one, being most impressed by Marvel finally willing to go a little darker. The characters were compelling, the fights...
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House of Cards returned for a fourth season over the weekend and this is far less an event than it used to be. When the show first premiered in 2012, it was touted as Netflix’s first foray into original programming—despite Lilyhammer dropping on the streaming service a few months earlier with a thud—so its...
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On the eve of The People Vs. O.J. Simpson’s premiere I wrote that I wanted the show to either be the most gloriously trashy thing to ever hit TV screens or the best drama of all time. Anything in between would be unacceptable. So which was it? Well, neither actually. The show does have trash elements–we’ll get...
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Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Like many people, I had my doubts about Better Call Saul before it premiered last year. I wondered how this one joke character could carry his own series. I worried about the tone; would it be too much of a goof or would it try too hard to capture the tension...
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