Disclaimer: This contains spoilers, dummy! Also, as a white middle class woman, I completely acknowledge how my perspective and experience affect my interpretation of the show. Good thing this is an opinion piece, huh? On Friday, 12 May, Netflix released the entire season two of Master of None, Aziz Ansari’s hit dramady. So, naturally, rather than […]
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Review: Iron Fist
Marvel’s Netflix series have long been the moodier and more stylish cousins in the MCU family, and latest outing Iron Fist is no exception. Blasting Outkast’s ‘So Fresh, So Clean’ and pointedly wearing no shoes, it is clear from the very first scene that newest family addition Iron Fist lives up to Netflix’s slick production […]
Review: The Great Pottery Throw Down
It’s not often you hear northern voices on TV, but for this year’s thrilling new BBC masterpiece, The Great Pottery Throw Down, Bolton-born radio DJ Sara Cox has been called in to host: and that’s where the problems begin. The theory is simple: take the Bake Off format, remove cakes, add clay, and give it […]
Review: Narcos
Narcos is yet another Netflix original series indebted to the likes of Breaking Bad, and that’s not just the drugs. The success and trail blazed by Vince Gilligan’s phenomenon has signalled to producers that Netflix can be a place worth the investment. What we have here is an exquisitely made and shot drama that’s almost […]
Review: Hunted
Hunted tries to recreate the feeling of “being on the run” with big names and seemingly real life escapes from the CCTV that permeates our “surveillance state”, as Channel 4 insists on calling it. Fourteen ordinary citizens are given the chance to be fake fugitives, whose aims are to evade capture for up to 28 days. […]
Review: The Great British Bake Off Semi-Final
This review contains spoilers. It seems apparent that every year the standard of The Great British Bake Off increases and the bakes appear more and more obscure to the general population. There are fewer challenges involving actual cakes (as these have been done before) and more involving pastry, bread and ‘alternative ingredients’. Does this disengage […]
Review: Mr Robot
Aname like Mr Robot might set alarm bells ringing that this is simply another clichéd tech-thriller, riddled with scenes of hackers hunched over laptops. Or that it genuinely is a TV show featuring a robot with a masculine social title as its hero. However, when Mr Robot tickled my niche interest in cyber ethics, I […]
Review: Bloodline
It’s true, it really is the ‘Golden Age of Television’. Properties that we all know, digest and discuss, your Breaking Bad’s and Game of Thrones’ have set the bar for big budget television drama. Now, with companies like Netflix and Amazon producing their own in-house series, aiming to capture our screens as well as our […]
Review: Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute
“The streets are deserted. There are no more streets. Just torn-up ditches filled with rubble between rows of ruins.” Okay, so a book about the second world war was always going to be at least a little depressing. But, Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute manages to strike an excellent balance in a lot of ways, while […]
Spoilers: On avoiding the pain
******SPOILER ALERT****** I am doing the humane thing and warning all those reading that I am about to reveal potential life-ruining TV spoilers. I’m sure by now we are familiar with the following conversation: Friend/Family member/New acquaintance: So what TV series have you been watching? Me: I’m almost on series three of Gossip Girl and […]