by Will | May 14, 2019 | REVIEWS
Everything about HBO and Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl mini-series is a breath of fresh air. The riveting five-part hourlong created, exec produced and written by American Craig Mazin and directed by Swede Johan Renck begins with a sombre bookend twenty-four months...
by Will | Jan 28, 2018 | REVIEWS
Star Trek: Discovery, why can’t you be like this all the time? What’s Past is Prologue was a relentless, breathless, warp factor 10 ride through everything Star Trek should be every week. For the previous twelve weeks, the reboot has muddled its way along...
by Will | Dec 10, 2017 | REVIEWS
One day, Howard Silk awoke to find himself transformed into… Howard Silk for Starz’s intriguing new drama, Counterpart. The ten-part series begins with J.K. Simmons’ character overlooked for promotion after three decades of loyalty to… well;...
by Will | Dec 3, 2017 | REVIEWS
If you’re bored of superheroes, you’re bored of stories but perhaps Marvel’s latest offering, Runaways will snap you out of your ego trying to make you sound all cool and alternative, you little emo punks. The series is based on the comics by...
by Will | Nov 29, 2017 | REVIEWS
Tony Tost’s Depression-era series about strikebreaking in Iowa had me at hello but now, just four episodes into its freshman season, Damnation S01E04 is a God-damned near perfect hour-long. In addition to an amazingly well-balanced Unity of Opposites perfectly...
by Will | Nov 23, 2017 | REVIEWS
USA Network’s Damnation takes the oldest story in the book – the man against The Man – and updates it to dustbowl Iowa. The bleak, prohibition-era series, set in 1931 to be precise, centres on two brothers with similar murderous methods on opposite...
