HBO's Barry is having its best season yet. The lengthy gap between its second and third season (thanks again Covid) allowed creative team Bill Hader and Alec Beg not only to go back and tweak elements of the scripts of season 3 they weren't entirely happy with but...
If you've seen the mid-season finale of Better Call Saul then you're probably still sat aghast. I spent its closing moments with my hand clasped over my mouth as if I'd just witnessed something horrific. Thinking about it now, with a few days to let the episode sink...
During its fifth season, a conversation arose about whether Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul was actually a better show than its predecessor. Breaking Bad is my favourite TV show of all time, it blew my tiny mind but even I started to question it. What I loved...
Why remake perfection? This is what many Call My Agent! fans asked when it was announced that a British version of the hit French Netflix series was being made. A fabulous comedy about acting agents and the diva-like behaviour of the celebrities they were tasked with...
“Do you ever feel like you’re only doing things because everyone else is, and you’re scared to change?” This kind of sentiment is something often reflected among teenagers and young adults as they try to find their way in the world and who they are. This feeling is...
Before I can review this charming, unpredictable and warm-hearted new show from HBO Max, I have to address the title. The Sex Lives of College Girls is a terrible title for a show. It conjures up all sorts of things that, thankfully, the show doesn't go anywhere near....
For a large chunk of its opening episode, you may not be quite sure of what is going on during Shining Girls. Beginning on a genuinely creepy note, the series draws you into its mystery and utilisation of particular genre tropes thanks to some superlative deployment...
THE events featured in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe are so barmy that if they hadn’t really happened, this drama would be billed under the category ‘fantasy’. A faked death, an insurance scam, hiding within plain sight, a romantic journey to the other side of the...
AppleTV+ have been quietly putting out a stable of consistent anthology series to go with their mammoth dramas – Little America was one of the best series of the year it came out closer to the streamers’ launch, and now, with its star-studded talent that fills to the...
Before I can review the new season of Russian Doll I need to address the elephant in the room. Does the season need to exist? The first season of Natasha Lyonne's brilliantly wacky and downright strange comedy was an immediate hit. The announcement of a second season...
In a haze of Tribe perfume and Heather Shimmer lipstick, Derry Girls returns to Channel 4 this week for its third series and final series - causing glee and sorrow in equal measure. Launched in 2018, the show - created by Lisa McGee and loosely based on her own...
A wise man famously (the wise man is, FX Chairman John Landgraf) dropped the term “Peak TV”. It was a term to describe the sheer volume of shows being made by broadcasters and streaming platforms. In the time since he coined that phrase, we've been inundated with...
*Contains spoilers for the series up to the finale.* The era of Peak-TV appears to be going through a grifter stage right now, and not just any grifter too. Maybe it’s that the stories are high profile, or maybe it’s because television writers are trying to make sense...
There has never been a time in the history of television in which the term “comedy” has encompassed such a broad range of works as it does now. Decades ago, “comedy” was easy to understand: it either meant sitcom or some kind of variety show. Now, that genre could...
Holy shiiiii.… wow. Those were my words (or thereabouts) when the second Netflix series of Top Boy ended, literally, with a bang. Taken from Paul Hirons of The Killing Times. Read more from The Killing Times here News From The Killing Times Long-time readers know how...
ITV’s latest murder mystery drama comes with a high pedigree. Holding is based on the best-selling novel by Graham Norton and stars a slew of big TV names led by Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones, Car Share), Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) and Charlene McKenna (Ripper...
In a television landscape where everything feels BIG and boundary-pushing, and where TV is almost shouting at you to stand out, it can be harder to find those smaller and more personal shows that might resonate with you. Somebody Somewhere is one of those shows. It...
When How I Met Your Mother first premiered in 2005, there was little reason to believe it was anything other than a Friends copycat. It had the classic friend group — five white twenty-somethings in New York City, each with their own personality, and set up perfectly...
The final moments of last week’s episode promised fireworks, even the potential for horror, and for its final chapter of season two, Euphoria follows through on that promise. However, it might be the smaller, quieter moments that you’ll come away remembering more than...
It’s been almost two years since high stakes spy thriller Killing Eve last graced our screens, so don’t be too hard on yourself if the odd plot point has slipped your mind. The final scene of series three left off with cat-and-mouse Villanelle (Jodie Comer) and Eve...
An episode that feels like a culmination of many things Euphoria has been building up to this season, The Theater and Its double sees the long-awaited premiere of Lexi’s play, now entitled Our Life, and the emergence of some home truths and inner revelations for the...
Apple's new drama follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott), a man who has undergone a new procedure known as Severance. It's a unique procedure offered to workers of the somewhat shadowy Lumon Corporation. Essentially, the procedure alters the brain and divides memories...
It was always going to be a mighty task to top last week’s episode. While this doesn’t quite reach the dizzying heights that came with Rue’s nightmarish journey into the most poisonous echelons of her relapse that took up so much of the previous hour, the slower pace...
There have only been a few times that Louis Theroux has had the cameras turned on him whilst making his documentaries. When he met America's Most Hated Family, the Phelps made one of their trademark 'hate signs' with Theroux's face plastered across it. An infamous...