STEVE! (martin)
A short (two-part) mini-series about Steve Martin the comic and Steve Martin the person. A must for fans.
Channel: Apple TV+
Criminal Record
In London, a call to police sheds doubt on whether the right man was convicted in the murder of a woman several years previously. A young, Black Detective Sergeant is given the routine task of looking into it, and so she approaches the original investigating officer, DCI Hegarty, ably portrayed by Peter Capaldi. After getting …
Silo
Based on the excellent Hugh Howey novel, Wool, a subterranean city is carved deep into the earth. No one knows why they are there, but they believe that outside is a poisonous wasteland. Anyone who says that they want to go out is put in a suit and sent out the door, where they appear …
Truth Be Told
Octavia Spencer stars as Poppy, a NY Times journalist turned true crime podcaster. Poppy has recently returned to the Bay Area, where she grew up and where her family lives, and each season presents a different mystery that she aims to solve. Poppy can be a frustrating character – she has a tendency to fixate …
The Afterparty
Someone is murdered at a party and each episode is a different witness/suspect telling the story of the evening, Rashomon-style, with the added benefit that each story is a different genre (action, romantic comedy etc). A genuinely amusing whodunnit.
Slow Horses
A group of MI5 agents are banished to a backwater office for various failings. Their irascible boss, played to perfection by Gary Oldman, doesn’t seem like much, but he’s a canny old spy who’s better than he seems. When a young man is kidnapped by a group of ultra-nationalists, the group (the slow horses) are …
Severance
When the first season of this show ended I immediately went back to the beginning and watched the entire season again, it was that good. Our protagonists work for a mysterious company that allows some workers to completely sever their work life from their personal life – their work persona (their “Innie”) has no knowledge …
Invasion
Slow burn show about an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth. The primary problem with the first season of this show is that most of the characters remain focused on their pre-invasion problems – which, I don’t know – I’m thinking that the fact that THERE ARE ALIENS INVADING FROM SPACE AND KILLING EVERYONE, might prove a …
Foundation
I liked this adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Full disclosure, I didn’t love the books, so I was very happy with the changes made – the premise is that the Galatic Empire that has existed for millenia is coming to an end and a group of humans creates a Foundation to preserve culture and …
The Morning Show
Drama about the fallout after the beloved long-time host of a network morning news show is discovered to have been a sexual predator. Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston lead the great cast in this show about complicity, deception (including self-deception), and the harm caused.