After two seasons of solving murders in the building they live in, the third season situates the trio in the theatre. Oliver (Martin Short) is back in the director’s chair once more, and Charles (Steve Martin) is starring in the play. Where’s Mabel (Selena Gomez)? Well, she’s on the outside of things a little. With the pair so busy working on Oliver’s production, podcasting has taken a bit of a back seat. Also, there haven’t been any murders to investigate, […]

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As someone who grew up watching the OG High School Musical movie series – more times than you can count – I was skeptical when I first started watching High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Also, the title is a mouthful, which annoyed me. But the first season was actually pretty good, and it wasn’t a copy of the original, which was refreshing considering the amount of reboots/remakes we’ve gotten of late. After such a strong start, season 2 […]

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More than a mystery, more than a thriller, Wolf could be best described as a twisty, turny thing. The twists are the big beats it’s building to. The issue is that it gins up the most tension and energy during these buildups, rather than the climactic moments of the twists. It still has the tension, don’t get me wrong, and this makes it very watchable – just inherently flawed. Wolf does a manful job at layering at least three largely […]

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Cruel Summer is officially an anthology show, which means every season features a new mystery with a new cast of characters. In many ways, this makes it very similar to a limited show, which is arguably the greatest thing a mystery show can be. For audiences, it means there’s a definite episode where the killer gets revealed and all the important questions get answered. For writers, it means they can plan out the show with a definite ending in mind, […]

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I stopped watching every episode of The Simpsons a long time ago, but still watch the newer episodes occasionally. My big problem with many that I’ve seen is that they’re the dictionary definition of lackluster. Not a single joke or plot line gets a reaction out of me, and I end every episode feeling like I essentially watched nothing, like all I did for half an hour was idle around and wait for the time to pass. Captain Fall feels […]

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Like Gaiman’s other big page-to-screen success story, The Sandman, the first run of Good Omens was by and large a workmanlike adaptation of an original which had been rather special. This second lot is, all too clearly, something intended as a script from the start (beyond the vague ideas of a sequel that Gaiman and the sorely missed Terry Pratchett threw around a long time ago) – and this is to its advantage. This time, the production isn’t lumbered throughout […]

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They say in life, timing is everything. Sometimes you meet the perfect person, but the pieces just don’t align. Last season, Belly (Lola Tung) was at a place in her life where she could finally act on her lifelong, intense interest in Conrad Fisher (Christopher Briney), but he was in a dark place, having to wrestle with his father’s infidelity and the reality of Susannah’s (Rachel Blanchard) cancer coming back. He didn’t want to make summer miserable for everyone else, […]

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Just as plenty of wags have pointed out that the county of Midsomer seemed to attract cold-blooded murderers like flies to honey, a small Tasmanian town literally called Deadloch is practically inviting a corpse to surface in dramatic fashion. Or, if not that, then some kind of work of horror, but the zombie apocalypse has hit its wilderness years – so murder mystery it is. Obviously a chalk-and-cheddar, Tango-and-Cash pair of mismatched detectives isn’t some incredible new invention, but Deadloch’s […]

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I’m going to let you in on a secret: reviewing TV shows usually isn’t all that hard. Sure, I occasionally fret over how well I’ve understood the creators’ intent or agonize over what score to give, but with rare exception, it’s not that difficult to determine if something is good or not. Silo is one of those exceptions. On paper, the first season of this Apple TV+ sci-fi dystopian drama (based on Hugh Howey’s novel series of the same name) […]

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MonsterVerse fans, rejoice: Skull Island is a blast and a terrific addition to the franchise. While I think the last thing anyone expected after Godzilla vs. Kong was an anime-styled animated series on Netflix, the show manages to impress with its characters, humor, and action, even if it does take a while for it to find its footing and be consistently solid. Skull Island follows two teenagers named Charlie (Nicolas Cantu) and Mike (Darren Barnet) who find themselves stranded on […]

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A four-year sabbatical seems to be exactly what Black Mirror needed. The creeping Americanisation is no longer distorting the whole production around its service, when it wheels out the A-listers there’s a good reason for it, and, most importantly, the ideas – the hideous, beautiful ideas – behind it all are back to full strength. After Netflix snapped up Black Mirror, ‘ideas’ became something less than the right word, and we ended up with episodes based not so much on […]

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As I watch interviews of the cast speaking about how emotional they were shooting the last season of Never Have I Ever, I feel it’s the same for us viewers. This is the last leg of our journey with these characters, and my last review of the show after covering it every single season. It’s definitely bittersweet , but wrap-up seasons are also immensely difficult to do well. The writers may feel inclined to give these characters the absolute best […]

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When I first heard about Based On A True Story, I thought the premise sounded a bit too much like Only Murders in the Building. But I was wrong. The two shows are not alike. I would say Based On A True Story feels more like Santa Clarita Diet, with the story’s focus being the marriage at the centre of things on top of all the satirical commentary on the true crime genre. The series follows married couple Ava (Kaley […]

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Teen movies have been obsessed with female friendships lately. The Edge of Seventeen, Lady Bird, Booksmart, Little Women, Banana Split, and Unpregnant all feature young female protagonists whose female best friends play much bigger roles than just the sidekicks. The same can’t really be said for teen shows, though, so it’s pretty cool on paper that Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies decided to take this route as well. A prequel show to the 1978 film Grease, this musical show […]

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Perhaps the biggest draw for shows like Inside No. 9, which has just wrapped up its eighth season, is that, as an anthology, each episode allows it the chance to do something completely different. Over the course of its run, the creative duo behind the show, Reece Shearsmith, and Steve Pemberton, have tackled a range of genres, from psychological horror to silent comedy, to more mundane, kitchen sink dramas – all while retaining their own distinctive style and limiting each […]

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