Privileges, a new French drama on HBO Max, takes place in and around a five-star hotel in Paris, one that caters to high-roller clients, from billionaires to pop stars. But it also has a rehabilitation […]
Joel Keller
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Sayuri Herrera is Mexico City’s first prosecutor that specializes in investigating cases of femicide, or basically women who were murdered because of their gender. The three part docuseries The Prosecutor (original title: La fiscal) follows […]
The new Netflix series Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen is being touted as the Duffer Brothers’ first project since Stranger Things, but the show is more the vision of Haley Z. Boston, who […]
John Oliver may have made fun of the fact that Netflix was releasing a new series called Detective Hole, but it’s a real show, based on a series of novels by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø. […]
Riz Ahmed is mostly known for being a “serious” actor as well as a filmmaker (he won an Oscar for the short film The Long Goodbye). But he’s done comedy here and there, as well, […]
The second season of Homicide New York, produced by Dick Wolf and Alfred Street Industries, presents more notorious homicide cases in the Big Apple, with interviews from the NYPD detectives and officers from either the […]
We don’t know about you, but when we sit down to watch a Marvel series or film, we want to believe that this is a fantasy version of our world. But the action in the […]
Ready Or Not: Texas is a South Korean Netflix reality series where longtime friends Lee Seo-jin and Nah Yung-suk take a very loosely-planned journey to Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas. They have an extensive crew […]
One of the most consistent features of lighthearted mystery series, whether they’re the “cozy” kind or ones that are darkly profane, is the mismatched investigators that inexplicably work well together. In the Aussie dark comedy […]
The Comeback has had gaps between seasons that even Larry David would envy; Season 1 was in 2005 and Season 2 was in 2014. But those seasons also mean that the grating and self-aggrandizing Valerie […]
The new Fox series The Faithful: Women Of The Bible is positioned as an event , with each of the three two-hour episodes telling the story of a different phase of the book of Genesis […]
Sometimes when we watch a show like Hope Valley: 1874, a prequel to the Hallmark hit When Calls The Heart, we can be a bit sarcastic, calling out the moments when things feel a bit […]
Animal Love is a new Argentinian young-adult drama on Prime that involves a trap artist, a rich kid, the rich kid’s “found family” and a shooting that happens in the trap artist’s neighborhood that bonds […]
The new Brazilian drama on Netflix, Radioactive Emergency, is a fictionalized account of a real-life 1987 radiological accident in the city of Goiânia. Four people died, but health officials examined over 110,000 people and found […]
Three years ago, Jury Duty on Prime came out of nowhere to garner great reviews and Emmy nods despite its out-of-left-field conceit that one person thinks he’s on a real jury in a real trial […]
Two years ago, the French action series Furies showed that a series can have great action sequences and a weak story and still work. Now, with the power structure in Paris’ underground having gone through […]
One of the things that always distinguished Prime Video‘s Invincible, created by Robert Kirkman from the comic he co-wrote with Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley and developed for TV by Simon Racioppa, is that even […]
In the new BritBox drama The Lady, the stories of both Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and her dresser, Jane Andrews, are examined. Andrews was convicted of murdering her partner, Thomas Cressman, in […]
As the Colombian coming-of-age series Eva Lasting enters its final season on Netflix, the group of friends we’ve followed since high school are now all in the world, either working or in college. Their friend […]
It’s weird to call a genre of TV shows “beach reads” but it’s a good way to describe them, given that they’re based on novels that can be given that moniker. They usually feature wealthy […]
Taylor Sheridan has a penchant for attracting A-list movie stars to his TV series, and he gives them roles that they can really sink their teeth into. Michelle Pfeiffer, for instance, says that Sheridan wrote […]
One of the things that distinguished the South African Netflix thriller Fatal Seduction from other steamy erotic thrillers is that it leans more heavily on the sex than most, while throwing in as many twists […]
When a show like That Night, the new Netflix series from Spain, tells the same story from different perspectives, it’s sometimes hard to get more than a surface sketch of who the show’s main characters […]
When Virgin River was renewed for an 8th season, it officially became Netflix’ longest-running scripted series. Remember, this is a service that gives shows maybe 5 seasons at most. But Netflix knows what it has […]
A dramedy series starring Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden sounds like something that was created and streamed in the U.S., right? But Sunny Nights is actually an Australian show; it takes place in Sydney and […]
The new Prime Video series Scarpetta boasts an impressive cast, bringing to life Patricia Cornwell’s series of novels that have been popular for over three decades. But just because the formula for success is there […]
Age Of Attraction is a Netflix dating reality series, hosted by Nick Viall and Natalie Joy — a couple who have an 18-year-age gap between them — where 20 men and 20 women mix and […]