Our story takes place two hundred years after a nuclear holocaust in a 1950s reality that isn’t quite our reality. A naïve young vault dweller, Lucy, leaves her safe underground shelter to explore the wasteland that used to be Los Angeles, looking for her father. A young soldier, Maximus, uses a steel suit to become …
Best friends Dr Sleech and Dr Klak navigate relationships (good, bad, and really bad), anxiety-eating parasites, time loops and all kinds of other intergalactic maladies in this animated comedy. Not going to say that eating an edible first might increase the enjoyment, but NOT NOT going to say that either.
When you need the biggest dose of body-positivity possible, Lizzo delivers with this competition show featuring try-outs to join her group of larger-sized back-up dancers – The Big Grrrls. This isn’t an elimination show per se – once the group to join the house is selected, all of them could qualify to join Lizzo on …
Darkly funny story of a young woman in London. In Season 1 she is struggling with the death of her best friend and making poor choices. Season 1 is funny, quirky, smart, rueful and amazing. Season 2 is transcendent. Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and stars.
Julia Roberts stars in season one of this smart, stylish drama about a center that assists returning servicemembers in the transition to civilian life. Janelle Monae takes the lead in season two, as a woman who wakes up in a rowboat with no memory of who she is. The show switches back and forth between …
Dramatic space opera – sometimes confusing and the first season could drag, even with the fantastic special effects. The first season also really bothered me by the dearth of strong female characters and reliance on tropes. However, the second season introduced new characters, which fixed the representation problem, and with great new characters and more …
What if Japan and Germany won WWII, and the allied powers lost? This series takes place in the 1960s in what used to be America – the Eastern half a Nazi stronghold, the Western run by the Japanese. The characters begin to find film snippets that show a different reality – one where the allied …
Well-made but ultimately heavy-handed show set in a steampunk universe with fae and other creatures. Political intrigue and a police detective investigating a series of murders in a world with both dirigibles and fairies. The problem is that the show has a Message (prejudice against immigrants is Bad) that is a subtle as an anvil, …
In a world where there are superheroes, absolute power corrupts absolutely and behind the shiny façade, some of the superheroes are sociopathic assholes. This show follows a group of ordinary men who band together to expose the myth of the superhero. Great story, but wildly (beyond the anything) graphic violence.
Fun romp about the battle between good and evil with a demon (played with delicious glee by David Tennant) and an angel, (Michael Sheen). It’s all good fun, pitting Heaven and Hell and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse against one another, but very light.