In the first season of the Brazilian thriller New Bandits, a banker and former army officer embeds himself in his birth family, who are a group of bank robbers. Over the course of that first […]
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If Wishes Could Kill is being billed as Netflix’ first Korean YA horror series, and its bloody conceit is interesting: Users of an app that grants wishes end up being violently killed 24 hours after […]
Two years ago, Richard Gadd came out of nowhere and created a massive hit for Netflix with Baby Reindeer. In his follow-up to that project, he’s created and written Half Man for HBO and the […]
In the new French comedy Flunked, a small-time con artist is sent by a police detective to go undercover as a high school math teacher, in order to flush out the son of a drug […]
The first season of BritBox‘s After The Flood was all over the place, trying to cram a climate-change disaster story into a murder mystery that included corrupt cops. It was a lot and not all […]
Fans of Stranger Things who wanted the show to continue so much after the series finale, they started a rumor that a secret ninth episode of the final season was made will probably be happy […]
Running Point had a successful first season due to not only the funny lead performance of Kate Hudson, but an ensemble that became a well-oiled laugh machine very quickly. The second season sees Justin Theroux […]
Santita, a new Mexican romantic dramedy on Netflix, poses an interesting question: Can a person reconnect with the love of her life after her life changed so much that she decided to leave him years […]
Sometimes we think that the creators of Korean romcoms put a bunch of professions on slips of paper, put them in a hat, select two, and write the first episodes based on those professions. How […]
The first season of the British cop thriller Criminal Record on Apple TV boasted a fine cast, led by Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi. But we were really disappointed that the case they were working […]
At the end of one of the episodes of his new docuseries This Is A Gardening Show, Zach Galifianakis says “The future is agrarian,” and he means it. The comedian and actor has been farming […]
In the new Netflix thriller Unchosen, a young mother in a religious cult meets an escaped convict after he saves her daughter, and she starts to rethink her place in the conservative, God-fearing congregation. It’s […]
Despite a new-ish title, the Fox reality series Bear Grylls Is Running Wild isn’t new; it’s been around under various titles on both NBC and Nat Geo since 2014. In its first season on Fox, […]
Even though Sullivan’s Crossing wasn’t all about Scott Patterson’s character Sully, his departure at the end of Season 3, which he cited was mostly due to creative differences over the direction of Sully’s character, still […]
The new Prime Video adult animated series Kevin, created by Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert, imagines a content housecat trying to make it on his own after leaving his humans. He gets help from a […]
In the new Korean Prime Video series Absolute Value Of Romance, a high school student who moonlights as a web romance novelist, imagines four young male teachers at her school as the main characters of […]
There are times when you can see the major points of a thriller’s story coming, but don’t mind as much because the acting is solid and the writing provides enough tense moments. That’s what we […]
At this point in the run of the Netflix thriller Fake Profile, we get the feeling that creator Pablo Illanes and his writers are throwing possible plotlines into a bowl, picking them out at random, […]
Made With Love, an Indonesian drama on Netflix, shows that you can make a show about a top restaurant and not have people screaming at each other or waxing poetic about how important restaurants are […]
The first season of Lee Sung Jin’s dark comedy Beef was a hit and an award-winner for Netflix because of its relatable story, class differences that people could connect to, and fine performances. The second […]
It’s fascinating that, after barely being on TV over the last 40+ years, Michelle Pfeiffer is starring in two very different TV projects in rapid succession. But they both show the range of what she’s […]
The rules of Million Dollar Secret‘s second season are exactly the same as the first, but this year there are a slightly larger number of contestants — fourteen, to be exact. These hopefuls stay at the […]
The first season of Netflix’ German thriller Crooks spread the action around Europe; the second season expands its footprint all the way to Thailand. But with things that spread out, will the show be as […]
During the first episode of the new AMC dramedy The Audacity, we kept asking ourselves why we would want to spend time with more tech bro a-holes. We already laughed at them in Silicon Valley […]
If it feels like it’s been a long time since Euphoria debuted on HBO, it is: Zendaya and company first graced our screens in 2019, with a second season bowing in 2022, and the third […]
Korean romantic dramedies seem to follow a pattern, don’t they? Two people from different social circles, a meet-cute, lots of bickering, and then the two people fall in love. In Perfect Crown on Hulu, the […]
The Hulu series Malcolm In The Middle: Life’s Still Unfair starts out with Bryan Cranston’s voice saying “Previously on Malcolm In The Middle,” which leads to a montage of mostly cartoonish violence from the 2000-06 […]
Bandi, the new French drama on Netflix, takes place on Martinique, a French-controlled island in the Caribbean. It features a family of 11 siblings that have to figure out how to stay together after their […]
The new Peacock dramedy The Miniature Wife is based on a short story about how a wife fights for her marriage after her husband accidentally shrinks her. Seems like a far-out premise, but if anyone […]
We think most fans of Hacks had an inkling that the fifth season of the show would be the last one, even before news of it being the final season leaked and then was confirmed […]
The new Netflix comedy Big Mistakes is Dan Levy’s first TV series since Schitt’s Creek ended, so there’s some anticipation for this series, given the history of the Emmy-winning Schitt’s. But this show is different, […]
Trust Me: The False Prophet is a four-part docuseries, directed by Rachel Dretzin, that features cult expert Christine Marie; with her husband, videographer Tolga Katas, she infiltrated a Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community in Short […]
The new Hulu drama The Testaments takes place a number of years after The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s considered a sequel to that series, told from the perspective of teen girls who have grown up knowing […]
As the Prime Video hit superhero series The Boys enters its final season, the U.S. is under the crushing fascistic reign of Homelander and the Vaught Corporation. But there certainly is a confrontation about to […]
People who are fans of “cozy mysteries” don’t understand how tough it is to create a new murder mystery in every episode, while trying to develop characters and foster continuing personal stories. A new BritBox […]
In Foul Play With Anthony Davis on TBS, the ten-time NBA all-star executes elaborate hidden-camera pranks on fellow superstar athletes. For every prank, Davis has an accomplice, usually another mega-star athlete who knows Davis, the […]
As much as Dave Filoni tries to build each chapter of the Star Wars universe, whether it’s live-action or animated, into its own entity, there is still an advantage to those who’ve followed the franchise […]
In the first season of the Spanish thriller Gangs Of Galicia on Netflix, a lawyer in Madrid finds out that her father was in witness protection after he is murdered, and upends her life to […]
Sins Of Kujo, a new Japanese legal drama on Netflix, features a lawyer who not only defends the dregs of society, but also tends to get them reduced sentences or exonerated. What kind of lawyer […]
Shows that tend to combine folklore with modern-day action, like the Taiwanese series Agent From Above on Netflix, combine the darker elements of the traditional mythology with a sense of humor. But sometimes that sense […]
We wanted something more from Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors than we got during its first season. There was a lot that was satisfying about it, namely Jon Hamm’s lead performance. But there was […]
XO, Kitty has become such a success on Netflix that people are now forgetting that it was a spinoff of the To All The Boys movie series. But the third season will remind us of […]
The British series Atomic aired on Sky in 2025, depicting two strangers who end up smuggling uranium across North Africa, chased by the CIA, the cartel and more. Now the series is on this side […]
The new Hulu series Dear Killer Nannies is about the life of Juan Pablo Escobar, the son of notorious Medellin cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. What’s unusual about the show is that it’s not only told […]
One of the fun things about Netflix’s docuseries Love On The Spectrum is that the show’s producers identify participants that are fan favorites and decide to follow up with them in subsequent seasons, whether they’re […]
It’s interesting how even light, comedic murder mysteries can get pretty dark. If It’s Tuesday It’s Murder is a new Spanish series on Hulu that definitely fits in that “comedic mystery” category. But almost everyone […]
We didn’t like the first season of House Of David, because we were likely so spoiled with how well The Chosen was able to take Biblical characters and make them humans in a 21st century […]
Have you ever had a problem with your neighbors? Did it spiral into something completely out of control? That’s the premise of a new Acorn TV series, The Feud On Sheulbury Drive. Opening Shot: Three […]