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BOO, BITCH - SEASON ONE

You can almost feel the show trying too hard to be of-the-moment trendy. Often it can feel like when your parents use a slang term that’s passé. It’s nothing but a false depiction of teenagers with gaping plot holes that belittles and mocks the target audience.

PRU - SEASON ONE

Hilarious dialogue from characters in a world we haven’t seen before in sitcoms – all imbued with truth. Fully Focused bring their ethos and emphasis on authenticity and representation of young voices both on and off camera.

INSIDE MAN - SEASON ONE

Tennant, Tucci, and the other cast members are great, but the plot is so absurd that the whole series becomes a lesson in how not to write a story.

LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS - SEASON THREE

Every aspect of Love, Death + Robots expresses the brilliance of the animators behind this series—the direction, sound, animation art, and design. It showcases an overabundance of immense talent.

MY LIFE WITH THE WALTER BOYS - SEASON ONE


There's nothing quite memorable about My Life With the Walter Boys - not its characters nor its storylines. It's all mediocre; at best.

THE WOODS - SEASON ONE

One of the things I like about these Coben series - and The Woods is no exception - is how well they maintain the mystery without resorting to huge, left-field reveals. The Woods is another solid showing, complete with good performances and an intriguing mystery, but there's a lack of artistic ambition here that keeps it from elevating to the higher tiers of the genre.

MURDER IS EASY - SEASON ONE

What the writer Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre has done well here is to create the strange eeriness of an insular community, ostensibly genteel and polite but in other ways hostile. As always, Jonsson does an amazing job at taking on the role -- and the show, despite popular reviews, doesn't focus on his colour or taking a stab at being 'woke', it is just a murder mystery; as it should be.

MAXINE - SEASON ONE

This series is as much about Ian Huntley as it is Maxine Carr so the name of the series is slightly deceptive. What we don't see, and probably rightly so, is Huntley committing the murders in question. Everything else appears to be fair game. The series is a difficult watch and in the UK Channel 5 got a lot of criticism for producing this series. In many ways the murders highlighted not only what was wrong with many institutional bodies at the time but also society itself. It's also a reminder that evil lurks within all of our communities and how easy it can be for those people to stay hidden and slip through the cracks of society. Jemma Carlton and Scott Reid are brilliant in their roles, roles which would've been brave undertakings considering the story matter. A troubling but exceptional drama

THE INNOCENT - SEASON ONE

The series does go on too long, making it necessary to revisit things in order to keep up with the bevy of details that keep emerging. But The Innocent isn't meant to be easy viewing. Engage with it as fully as you can - and enjoy The Innocent's wild, wild ride.

UTOPIA - SEASON ONE

At one point, David Fincher was all over this adaptation before leaving over budget concerns. I think if he had stayed on, it would have done the UK version justice but the show struggled to outdo the UK’s cult series. Fanx everyone had high expectations but I don't think Utopia’s unadulterated mayhem is replicable – attempting to do so without the genius composer Alex Garcia Lopez and screenwriters is a lost cause.