Looking
A half-hour drama about the lives and loves of a group of gay friends in modern-day San Francisco.
Channel: HBO
Gentleman Jack
Historical drama loosely based on the real life of Anne Lister, a woman in 1830s Yorkshire who lived openly as a lesbian, even taking a wife. It’s fine, but Anne sometimes seems a bit manipulative – which is better than having a perfect protagonist, but means we’re not always rooting for her. Also, I never …
The White Lotus
Billed as a comedy, I did not find anything funny about this show. It tells the story of a week at an exclusive Hawaiian resort. Well-done character study of people behaving terribly, with terrible consequences.
The Undoing
In the land of ultra-wealthy New Yorkers, Nicole Kidman plays a psychologist married to an oncologist (Hugh Grant). When a mother of another student at their child’s exclusive private school is killed, their world is thrown into turmoil when the husband is arrested for the murder. Twists and turns, no one is likeable.
Silicon Valley
There aren’t many likeable characters in this show, but its scathing take on the tech world is worth putting up with these jerks and idiots, particularly since we get to laugh at them along the way.
McMillion$
The criminal investigation of the takeover of the McDonald’s Monopoly game in the 1990’s by someone on the inside who stole the winning tickets and sold them. If that sounds like a boring, victimless crime – think again. Riveting.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
The story of Michelle McNamara’s search for the Golden State Killer and the story of the rapes, the survivors and the eventual capture of the perpetrator.
The Lady and the Dale
The tale of a longtime con artist and grifter, whose biggest con was “the Dale” a three-wheeled fuel-efficient car in the 1970s. Described by everyone as deeply convincing and delusional – she is an interesting character. What made it more interesting, and confused the issue, was that she was a male-to-female transexual, which was highly …