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Paradise
You’ll have to trust us on this: it’s best to know absolutely nothing about this show before you start watching.…
Black Doves
I would be okay if Black Doves was just a straightforward spy thriller; Knightley and Whishaw have enough charm, enigma,…
A Man on the Inside
Man on the Inside may be a detective show, but at its core, it’s a series about the beauty and…
The Gentlemen
After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…
Griselda
With the success of Narcos, Netflix has created multiple shows about drugs in Latin America to the point that the…
Twilight of the Gods
Partially due to the surviving Norse myths, as well as certain modernized cinematic depictions, most people think of the Norse…
Killer Soup
How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…
Maamla Legal Hai
With the stakes involved in plenty of cases, legal dramas tend to be more serious and dramatic. However, sometimes, ludicrous…
Cristóbal Balenciaga
When Cristobal Balenciaga was in his prime, the courtier was lauded for his technique. More than anything, his dedication to…
Mary & George
After the likes of The Favourite six years ago, modern historical portrayals have now become more interested in the salacious…
Batman: Caped Crusader
It’s easy to mistake stills of Batman: The Caped Crusader with Batman: The Animated Series, that iconic ‘90s series that…
No Good Deed
It takes a while to adjust to the unevenness of No Good Deed, especially if you’re not familiar with director…
Eric
Backed by Netflix’s deep pockets, Eric looks as good as any prestige miniseries out there. As a portrait of pre-gentrified…
Constellation
A lot goes on in Constellation, Apple TV+’s latest addition to its growing collection of sci-fi shows. It begins as…
PLUTO
Reimagining a children’s classic as a mature serial killer mystery, PLUTO already had high expectations for its anime adaptation. The…
Bodies
Based on the DC Vertigo comic, Bodies is an intriguing crime thriller with a unique twist – one body, in…
Scavengers Reign
“World-building” doesn’t quite capture what Scavengers Reign does — the sheer imagination on display in just the first three episodes…
Black Cake
We don’t really know our parents the same way they know about us. Black Cake recognizes this, and takes that…
Dear Child
Dear Child may be tackling difficult themes, including sexual violence and domestic abuse, but it’s not hard to watch at…
Such Brave Girls
In an early scene in Such Brave Girls, Josie (Kat Sadler) compares herself and her sister Billie (Lizzie Davidson) to…
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher isn’t an exact one-to-one television adaptation of the titular short story. Instead, the…
Skull Island
Set in the Monsterverse—the same shared universe that King Kong, Godzilla, and their respective films inhabit—Skull Island follows a group…
Hi Nanna (2023)
When your dad is single, and he isn’t in a relationship with someone else, naturally, a kid would wonder about…
Extraordinary
Imagine if the show Girls was Marvel-ized (or if you like, Derry Girls blended with Encanto): that’s kind of what…
Mrs. Davis
It’s difficult to describe Mrs. Davis without sounding a little bit insane. It is, after all, a sci-fi series that…
Turn of the Tide
Also known as Rabo de Peixe, after the real town where the series is based, Turn of the Tide follows…
The Lying Life of Adults
Based on a novel, The Lying Life of Adults might feel, at first, like a standard Netflix coming-of-age series, complete…
Count Abdulla
This new six-part comedy series is as razor-sharp as a vampire’s fangs, skewering everything from the horror genre’s historically iffy…
Wrestlers
The OVW are practically nobodies outside the pro-wrestling scene, and they know it. They describe themselves as a “third tier”…
Undead Unluck
Undead Unluck is such a strange anime with such a strange duo. Named after their respective powers, the undead Andy…
Sixty Minutes (2024)
While not having world-ending stakes or large-scale operations, Sixty Minutes just works as an action movie. Sure, the plot is…
Better
From Happy Valley and Line of Duty to Luther and Sherwood, the BBC has produced some of the finest police…
Jury Duty
Between HBO’s The Rehearsal and Peacock’s Paul T. Goldman, it would seem that genre-bending reality-based shows are having a moment.…
Deadloch
Deadloch begins like any other self-serious police procedural. A body washes up on shore, sparking widespread fear and a twisty…
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