"I just want to be normal!" It's fair to say that television still has a long way to go in terms of disability visibility. On-screen at the moment we have deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis portraying a deaf character on a nightly soap. Another deaf actor Nadeem Islam is...
"There's spit on my face and blood on my shoes and it never stops." Martin Freeman is no stranger to a naturalistic performance. His first notable role as every man Tim Canterbury in The Office is still one of the best portrayals of a normal man on television. Tim was...
It's another long hot summer day. You and your neighbours from the inner city estate have been evacuated by a massive police operation into the stifling heat of the day. They say there's a bomb in the building. You and your neighbours know from bitter experience that...
Sometimes Euphoria can be a lot, to put it mildly. There is a branch of the film and television conversation on Twitter that cannot abide sex scenes and frequently question whether or not scenes of a sexual nature are at all necessary on screen. It’s a stupid query to...
The best new show of 2021 arrived so late in the game; you may have missed it over the Christmas break. But Yellowjackets has quickly become a tour-de-force of television, an average Roy of the Rovers issue given new life as a Showtime television series, introducing...
ITV make a LOT of crime dramas. Even when their dramas aren't specifically in the crime genre they like to have us guessing about who did what to who. A recent example of this was their under-appreciated black comedy Finding Alice. It was, as it turned out, a story...
It has been two years since we last saw the entire cast of Euphoria. Zendaya's Rue and Hunter Schafer were given their own self contained specials when the world emerged from lockdown. Frustrated creator Sam Levison was forced to scale back the hectic and quick scene...
Some dramas make you think, others are there to be enjoyed and quickly forgotten but a handful, like last year's It's a Sin are there to shine a light on a section of society who aren't thought about. When those dramas are good, they'll stay with you forever. Four...
You're only 53 seconds into Episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown when you realise that Stephen Toast (Matt Berry) and his bizarre theatrical world has not merely been ported from its original home on Channel 4 to BBC Two, but has been given the star treatment. Because...
"Gonna be Famous 5eva cos 4eva's too short." It's entirely possible, in fact, it's inevitable that you haven't heard of Girls5eva. Even you have, you probably don't realise it's available through Peacock which is available now through Sky Boxsets and NOW. For the...
"I like sex, I like it very much and am extremely good at it” The three-part serial A Very British Scandal is the best of the 2021 Christmas dramas and has enough temperature to break through the cold on a frosty winter’s night. However, don’t expect any festive cheer...
“Because they realized if all the slaves dressed the same, they would see how many of them there were, and they'd rise up and kill their masters.” If we know one thing about Logan Roy, it’s that he always wins. We’ve heard this repeated idea countless times...
This without question my favourite post of the year. It's another chance to celebrate the best television had to offer. 2021 was another strong year. Standouts It's a Sin, Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building and the long-awaited third season of Succession....
A new term has emerged in the US. The term 'cord cutter' refers to someone who has let their cable provider go and only watches streaming services. There are so many streaming options in the US it's understandable that consumers may feel that traditional broadcast...
There's a lot to unpack in the penultimate episode of the season as Jackson Maher breaks down what might be the best episode of this season. When a TV show is operating at its apex, it has the ability to move us—like, physically. I touched on this in my recap of “The...
Jackson is away this week so, I've stepped in to cover the seventh episode of Succession's third season, Too Much Birthday. I've had a nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach over the last few episodes, that one or more of the Roy Family won't make it to the end of...
“My hunch is that you’re going to get f***ed because I’ve seen you get f***ed a lot. And I’ve never seen Logan get f***ed once.” Contributed by Jackson Maher. Sometimes in Succession, there’s a weirdly sexual subtext to everything that’s going on. Tom pulls Greg’s...
The second series of Kayleigh Llewellyn's coming of age comedy-drama In My Skin IS the best BBC drama of the year. Available now in its entirety on the BBC iPlayer, the second series is one of the most tender, moving and deeply human dramas to air on the BBC in...
“I just do what my dad tells me” Contributed by Jackson Maher. Well, that was the most stressful episode of Succession I’ve ever sat through. Scratch that, I was pacing for most of the episode. At one point I hid behind my couch, curled up, peeking over the...
Contributed by Jackson Maher. Is he losing his grip? But like, with a question mark at the end. Since his stroke in the first episode, Logan Roy’s mortality has loomed over Succession. It is a looming existential dread that backgrounds every character’s decision....
"Dalgliesh is a serious attempt by Channel 5 to assert itself as one of the big players in the realm of drama and it succeeds on every score."Contributed by Will Barber-Taylor The gentlemen detective is a genre of fiction that emerged during the late 19th century...
Contributed by Jackson Maher. Humiliation is the key to much of Succession’s commentary. It avoids supporting the billionaire class by humiliating them—cutting them down to size as they’re failed by their bodies, watching them embarrass themselves in the most...
Episode 2: Mass in Time of War’ Recapped by Jackson Maher.Succession is a show about many things, but one of its central ideas, with its endless obsession over who will be Logan’s successor, is to compare modern-day corporatism and capitalism to monarchy. With each of...
The truly agonising wait for the third season of Succession is over. The Roys are going to war and we couldn't be happier. Contributed by Jackson Maher. Season 3 of Succession, the dramedy following the wealthy, powerful, and despicable Roy family picks up...