“Shut it down! Shut it all down!” When this line is shouted less than 15 minutes into the first episode of Widow’s Bay, you know exactly the influences shaping Apple’s comedy horror. It’s the same cry the mayor in Jaws fails to heed, and the damning demand of...
It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
In the sixth episode of the final season of Somebody Somewhere, Sam (the heartbreakingly tender Bridget Everett) takes a walk with a man she finds attractive. Known to her as 'Iceland' (the always brilliant Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), he is living in her parent's old...
Unbelievably, we've reached the end of the year. A time to reflect and champion the best television had to offer. Perhaps more so than every other year when I compile the list, I don't feel as if there's a definitive show of the year. The final season of Succession...
With TV slowing over the summer, it's time to look back at the best shows of the year to this point and perhaps give you the chance to catch up with some of the gems you may have missed. Happy Valley January 2023, BBC One - I'll admit to being equal parts excited and...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...