This short series, created by and starring Michaela Coel is gripping, difficult, and thought provoking. A young woman in London, out for a night with a friend, is sexually assaulted – not that she remembers it well since she was drugged by her assailant. The series shows her as she comes to grips with what …
Each season is a completely different show with a different cast. Season 1 was great (until the disappointing ending), Season 2 didn’t quite hold up. Season 3 was better. Gritty, complex stories of detectives solving crime. I’m not a Matthew McConaughey fan, but his performance in Season 1 was an epic standout.
Kate Winslet stars as a detective in a hardscrabble Pennsylvania town. She isn’t likeable and does things that are reprehensible, but this unflinching look at a woman trying to deal with family, her job, and her place in a small town while trying to solve a murder is compelling watching. The unique Delco accent is …
Widely regarded as the best tv show made, I’m sure it was true at the time. Gritty, realistic, well-written and well-acted. It follows drug dealers in Baltimore and the police who try to keep the streets safe. This is the show that launched Idris Elba’s career. It’s good, it really is, but it falls into …
This odd miniseries tells the true story of Chris and Susan Edwards, a middle-aged couple in England who were convicted of murdering her parents and burying their bodies in the back garden. Excellently acted by Olivia Coleman and David Thewlis, the series moves around in time and plays with various methods of storytelling as it …
Complex, gory, violent, riveting story of political intrigue in the fantasy land of Westeros. Filled with fascinating characters, twists and turns and dragons. Unlike many, I thought the ending was fine. Winter is coming.
What if there were a playground where everything is allowed because the hosts are actually robots? What is the line between human and not human? What would robots learn when subjected to the worst impulses of people? What is real and what is not real? Marvelously well done, with the incomparable Anthony Hopkins.
This HBO series, starring Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Nicole Kidman is a powerhouse show. It tells the story of a group of women in affluent Monterey. Witherspoon plays Madeline, a woman who needs to get involved in every problem she sees. She takes poor newcomer Jane (Woodley) under her wing and introduces …
Short (five episode) dramatization of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath. Excellent storytelling shows the scientific, bureaucratic and human impacts and causes of the disaster.
This drama follows the machinations of a wildly wealthy family (ala Rupert Murdoch) in which the patriarch refuses to step down. His children are continually thrown off balance as they try to curry favor with their powerful and unpredictable father. No one, NO ONE is likeable but it is impossible to look away. I’ll admit …