• TV Review: The Order

    The latest in a long line of Netflix originals, The Order is a ten-episode horror drama series conceived by Dennis Heaton and starring Jake Manley (Heroes Reborn, iZombie) as Jack Morton, Sarah Grey as Alyssa Drake, and Max Martini (Saving Private Ryan) as Edward Coventry. The show presents an...
  • TV Review: Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

    As much as we may hate to admit it, we are all secretly fascinated, to some extent, by murder documentaries, whether it’s to find out how and why they did it, how they got away with it for as long as they did, or even how they eventually slipped...
  • TV Review: Russian Doll

    Along with newest releases Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Sex Education, Russian Doll is another of the Netflix originals that has graced our screens this year.   “Lyonne’s dark humour forms the characterisation of the protagonist” The show stars Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black, American...
  • TV Review: You

    Having taken the internet by storm since its UK release, Netflix’s original series You is an easy to watch, ever so slightly trashy thriller based on the novel by Caroline Kepnes. “You is tantalisingly engrossing” You tells the story of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a bookstore manager from New...
  • TV Review: The Little Drummer Girl

    The six-part adaptation struggles somewhat to convey the intricacies of the tight plot, but more than makes up for it with gripping performances. “A tense and subtle thriller” The Little Drummer Girl, a recent BBC/AMC mini-series based on the 1983 John le Carré spy novel, is a tense and subtle...
  • TV Review: Sainsbury’s Christmas Advert

    Yes, I know what you’re thinking, if the Christmas advert isn’t heart-wrenchingly John Lewis, you aren’t interested right? I’m calling you out on that and saying that the Sainsbury’s advert is THE highlight of the Christmas period. Put your tinsel-wrapped pitchforks down and hear me out. “The curtains pull...
  • TV Review: Daredevil – Season 3

    The original Netflix superhero series returns for its third outing, and demonstrates the art of simplicity with a scaled-back, but nonetheless engaging, tale about vengeance, betrayal and manipulation. Following his apparent death at the end of The Defenders in 2017, blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) proves to be very much...