• NEW-TV: ‘Stumptown’ sees Smulders jonesing for trouble…

    Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders) may have bravely served her country, but it seems her best days are behind her. She might like to think of herself as a sharp-witted, sharp-tongued operator, but her card-sharp skills aren’t as good as she thinks and she owes the local Portland casino an...
  • NEW-TV: Tolman emerges as maternal key in ABC mystery…

    When a power-failure sweeps across the Long Island area, knocking out electricity and cell-phones, local sheriff Jo Evans (Allison Tolman)  is quickly roused from sleep and – making sure her father Ed (Clancy Brown) and daughter Bree (Ashley Aufderheide) are okay – rushes to the scene of what seems...
  • NEW-TV: Payne, Sheen and gloss – ‘Prodigal Son’ fits crime template…

    When Malcolm was still a young boy he discovered his father, a famous and respected high-society doctor, Martin Whitly (Martin Sheen) was a notorious serial-killer and though  Whitley was subsequently captured and imprisoned, it’s had a profound effect on his son’s mental health.  Decades later, Malcolm, now going by...
  • Criminal Intense: Netflix’s procedural thinks inside the box….

    Criminal is actually a twelve-episode anthology split over four continents, three in each of the principalities: UK, France, Germany and Spain, with only the set remaining largely unchanged between them. (This review is solely for the UK section for the moment!). The casts are different, the crimes are varied,...
  • Turn of Le Sceau: Netflix’s horror-fest ‘Marianne’ exorcises its rites…

    Emma Larsimon (Victorie Du Bois,) is a seemingly petulant and self-absorbed writer of horror fiction; something of an aloof international celebrity with her ongoing saga that has her hero, Lizzie Larck,  facing off against an otherworldy witch named Marianne. In the books, her evil creation can apparently jump from...
  • Amazon Prime’s ‘Carnival Row’: All’s fae in love and war…

    The world is not a safe place – whether you be human or a creature of magic – and survival can mean the hardest of decisions and the weightiest of compromises.  The humans of the ‘Burgue’ enlisted the help of the ‘fae’ to protect their homeland from the invaders...
  • Viva, Veronica! ‘Mars’ attracts a noir-stalgic set of life-lessons…

    It’s Spring Break in Neptune, California and the town’s residents face the influx of partying  youth with trepidation or an eye for profit. But both are about to be affected by the start of what appears to be a bombing campaign and a rising body-count. The victims’ families each...
  • The more ‘Things’ change: More Horror, Homage and Heart in Hawkins…

    Summers change everything and when Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) returns from summer-camp, boasting of a new love, he’s somewhat disappointed to find that the romances between Eleven (Mille Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLoughlin) seem to be demanding much of their time...
  • Black Mirror: ‘Ashley’ is a tale of Algorithm and Blues…

    Rachel is at that awkward age where she’s deciding whether fitting in to school-life and having friends is the most or least important to her. She tries not to care what others think but is still tempted to take paper in the talent show to prove something to herself....
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