When a TV show creates a promotion that obscures the true nature of the story they are telling, it can be a gamble. It can pay off spectacularly - like Hulu’s Paradise (sci-fi emotional drama disguised as a political thriller) - or in the case of DTF St Louis, it can...
When I recommend Justified to someone (and I do - all the time) the main way I describe it is by how idiosyncratic it is compared to typical TV crime dramas. It’s not quite on the level of The Sopranos in terms of depth, or even Breaking Bad in terms of...
HBO have finally confirmed the start date for the next chapter in the True Detective saga. True Detective: Night Country, was originally slated for the autumn, but was pushed back when WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes took hold. We now know when it's coming to the US and...
The strength of HBO’s newest drama, True Detective, does not lie with a grotesque murder but in its two leads played by Hollywood Powerhouses Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. True Detective follows Detectives Rust Cohle...
What to say if you liked it A Veronica Mars a day helps you work, rest and play. And enjoy some tasty TV. What to say if you disliked it Yet another US teen drama centring on a school full of beautiful, rich people ("the parents are millionaires or work for...
What to say if you like it The world's best cop show just got better What to say if you dislike it The world's best cop show just got a whole load more conventional What's good about it? • Glenn Close as Captain Monica Rawling who has added a whole new dimension to...
Loved it. All TV detectives come with quirks but Adrian Monk (aged 45 and three quarters, I guess) beats the rest because he has a complusive-obsessive disorder which makes crime solving sheer agony for him. Here's a list of the things he was scared of/obsessed with...
In the mid-1990s, NYPD Blue was right up there with ER as a primetime heavyweight, on both sides of the Atlantic. Then it lost its star (twice), got bogged down in domestic misery storylines, and was dumped by Channel 4 when series seven ended in mid-2000. Now they’ve...