When Beef debuted in 2023, it became a word-of-mouth hit and awards darling. Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series focused on an argument or 'beef' between two people, which spiralled out of control and took over their lives. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong were perfect as the...
Louis Theroux Investigates How the Manosphere Is Shaping Modern Masculinity in Netflix Film Netflix is partnering with Louis Theroux for his new feature-length documentary, Louis Theroux: Into The Manosphere. The one-off documentary will see him travel...
Netflix and MRC announced today that Regina Hall (One Battle After Another), Odessa Young (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) and Will Poulter (Dopesick, Warfare) join the cast of hostage thriller Rabbit, Rabbit. They join previously announced Adam...
TV in 2025 has been a mixed bag. Mostly that's because a lot of our favourite shows or shows we'd been anticipating didn't live up to our expectations. Notably, the second season of The Last Of Us, I'm still not sure what happened there. The third season of The White...
Writer and creator Steven Knight is bringing a new generation of Shelbys to the screen. Much-loved series Peaky Blinders will return with a bang to the BBC and Netflix, telling the story of a new generation of Shelbys, from writer and creator Steven Knight. The two...
TV is finally back in a normal rhythm, and that means the podcast is back! Matt and Dawn are joined by Dawn's podcast co-host Lucy from The Shipyard to review four shows available this week. It's September, and it's ITV, so by law, Sheridan Smith must portray a real...
There are two types of people in the world: those who use subtitles and those who do not. OK, perhaps there are more insightful metrics that define us, but subtitles represent a generational divide. Given that older people are more prone to hearing difficulties, you...
Today, Netflix announced a second season of the gripping crime procedural series Dept. Q has been commissioned – an adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novels. Season 2 will be filmed and set in Edinburgh following the success of the location in the first series....
Jed Mercuiro's new drama has its main cast. Trinity, will star Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Richard Madden, and Marcia Gay Harden The Loki and Bodyguard actors will lead Trinity, a high-stakes drama from Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio. The eight-episode series follows a valiant...
Based on the Danish novels penned by Jussi Adler Olsen, Dept. Q is Netflix’s fresh take which relocates the insufferable DCI Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) and his new cold-case department to Scotland. The premise may sound recycled, but the tight, darkly...
In the mid-80s 80s movies like The Big Chill and Peter’s Friends, and TV shows like thirtysomething showed a popularity for the “Friends Reunited” genre - stories exploring the dynamics and peculiarities of groups of old college friends. The characters were inevitably...
Black Mirror returns for another season, delivering six new stories we haven’t had since the fourth season in 2017. Much like last season, this one gets its own experimental episode with something Black Mirror has never seen before, giving us our first-ever direct...
Dawn and Tyler join Matt to review the week's notable TV. First, BBC One's gangster drama, This City City is Ours starring Sean Bean. Next, Netflix's lavish comedy murder mystery from Shondaland, The Residence. Then, Apple lampoons Hollywood in Seth Rogen's comedic...
Adolescence is the most talked-about show for a long time. Many people marvel at the fact that each of its tension-filled episodes is filmed in one shot and rightfully praise the naturalistic performances from the cast and the writing, which makes this four-part drama...
Matt and Dawn are joined by Gary Redrup, the original Custard TV podcaster, to review three shows available this week. They begin with the truly staggering Netflix drama series Adolescence, which might be the most discussed and praised British drama in a very long...
There’s a scene in the first episode of Toxic Town when Tracey Tailor - only hours postpartum, having nearly died giving birth - literally crawls out of her hospital room to get the attention of a medical person to attend to her new baby daughter. It’s a harrowing,...
Mo Walker and Dawn Glen join Matt to review four new shows available this week. On Netflix, Jack Thorne tackles the little-known story of what happened to mothers who gave birth to babies with birth defects in the Northamptonshire town of Corby in four-part drama...
Last year Shogun blew away critics and audiences with its brutal highlighting of Japanese culture in the 16th century. It showed the world through the eyes of a newcomer caught up in a land, and power, grab between warring lords, driven by religion and greed. It was...
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...
Matt is joined by podcast regulars Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review dark comedy No Good Deed on Netflix. Christmassy fare Bad Tidings on Sky as well as the final season of What We Do in the Shadows on Disney+.
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,...
Matt's back with Dawn Glen and Mo Walker to review the high-octane British spy thriller Black Doves on Netflix. Slightly less high-octane but still a spy thriller, The Agency over on Paramount+ as well as the high concept US drama Mrs Davis and true crime drama The...
The trailer for American Primeva lis set in the brutal American frontier of 1857 where only one goal matters: survival. Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin lead a sprawling ensemble that traverses America, heading West, in this epic story, a limited series for Netflix that...
Matt and Dawn are joined by fellow Maid for TV podcaster, Sarah Kennedy to review four new shows. Firstly, Ted Danson infiltrates a nursing home in new Netflix comedy A Man on the Inside. Colman Domingo stars in tense conspiracy thriller The Madness also on Netflix....