Steven Moffat is back in his wheelhouse on BBC One pulling all the tricks that you’d expect, there’s a lot of Sherlock and Doctor Who DNA here – as someone who didn’t watch The Time Traveller’s Wife but loathed Dracula, Inside Man sets up a tonne of fascinating...
It's not unfair to say that Ryan Murphy's output on Netflix hasn't resulted in a great many hits. You can understand why the streamer would want to sign Murphy. He's a bonafide hitmaker with American Crime Story always generating awards buzz, and the American Horror...
The success of shows like Hacks, Abbott Elementary and The Marvellous Mrs Maisel at this year’s EMMY Awards show that female-led comedy is finally getting the attention it deserves. Women’s voices are in abundance, and this year a new comedy from HBO Max landed firmly...
An all-female central cast, a tricksy timeline narrative involving the abusive husband of one of the characters being murdered, all of which is set in a middle-class community where everyone knows each other’s name and secrets are hard to keep. On paper, this might...
A TV show that is based on a successful movie comes with many expectations. Given that it has a world, characters, and a fanbase built in, the expectation is that it must build on this starting advantage and take the story somewhere the movie could not go. Prime...
There’s always been a prevailing belief of sorts that comedy and horror go hand-in-hand, and nowhere is that more evident than when it comes to the sub-genre of cringe humour. Place a camera into a setting or scenario that involves unlimited embarrassments, either...
After a rather subdued run of episodes, we finally get to see both Saul Goodman and Jimmy McGill at the height of their powers. It’s a bittersweet, muted series finale that still serves as pretty much a perfect finale - quietly devastating with nicely judged...
I had intended to review every episode of this final block of Better Call Saul episodes. I enjoyed the Gene flashforward 'Nippy' which caught up with Jimmy/Saul/Gene in Omaha still playing the long con and dreaming up elaborate schemes to con deplorable rich men out...
Seasoned viewers of period drama will be well aware that the past is a foreign country and that folk do things differently there. Even so, The Great (currently in its second season on Channel 4) is that little bit more different. The exuberant comedy-drama on the rise...
Those of us who fell for Him & Her and Mum will have done so because of the unique writing from the creator of both shows Stefan Golaszewski. Both shows showcased his knack for realistic dialogue. Though both were billed as comedies they were both really character...
One of the best recent comedies is ending and it's entirely possible you haven't seen any of it. Pamela Adlon's brilliantly personal Better Things finished with its fifth season earlier this year on FX and is currently quietly airing on BBC Two on Sundays or all on...
After watching the first episode of “Under the Banner of Heaven,” I was admittedly sceptical. The first episode starts out slow, simply introducing the murder at the centre and the detective who will be solving it. Everything about the first hour of the show told me...
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment I started to worry about Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn). The relationship between Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim is, in my view, one of the most interesting partnerships on television. Incredibly, nauseated, connected by their mutual...
One of the things I admire most about the Breaking Bad universe is how everything feels so methodically planned. In truth, when the Breaking Bad team sat down for their final season they placed a machine gun in the trunk of Walt's station wagon. It was a decision that...
Adaptations either work out extremely well and are applauded or they completely annoy the longstanding fanbase and divide any newcomers. Those adapting beloved works are fighting a constant battle between honouring the original text and the ideas that inspired...
While I don’t yet know whether The Undeclared War is BAFTA magnet Peter Kosminsky’s best work, after watching the opening episode, I am prepared to say it is his most intelligent and timely. Cybersecurity is a major subject in modern society as technology relentlessly...
Borgen is the best political series on television. It's not an area television drama dabbles in that often. There's the original House of Cards and the Netflix version which now feels sullied, The West Wing (don't ask me my opinion of Sorkin) and Sky's OTT drama...
Atlanta has always been a genre-defying show. The pilot episode leads you to believe otherwise, that the series is a straightforward comedy-drama following the rise of Atlanta rapper Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) and his cousin/manager Earn (series creator Donald...
The first season of Only Murders in the Building was one of the best shows of last year. Funny, warm and with a new take on the mystery genre it was unpredictable and absolutely delightful. For those who need a refresher, the series follows Charles (Steve Martin),...
The BBC's new crime drama Sherwood is brilliant. A starry cast, tackling a uniquely British story with an intriguing central mystery that feels tied to its surroundings rather than tacked on to keep viewers interested. The residents in this former mining village are...
The odd couple is a much-mined sitcom premise, with a myriad of shows built upon the fastidious, introvert forced by circumstance to spend time with a casually confident, careless extrovert. Looking at the trailers for Channel 4’s latest sitcom Big Boys, you might...
America is reeling from a gigantic loss in the Cold War – of prestige, of humiliation. In other words: A Red Moon. We are introduced to Ronald D. Moore’s For All Mankind as it throws us for an alternate history style scenario establishing the gauntlet from the get-go...
Inside No. 9’s most surprising twist might be that seven series in, it’s just as high-quality as it was at the start. With the latest run of episodes, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have proved that they’re still perfectly capable of entertaining us, moving us...
A new David Simon project dropping has roughly the same effect on critics that a designer drug has when it debuts among addicts. So with We Own This City beginning on Tuesday 7th June on Sky Atlantic expect a deluge of podcasts, blogs and think pieces marking the...