This incredibly bingeable show with its half-hour episodes caused me to make bad decisions about how late to stay up. I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. Serious, studious Emma and playboy Dexter meet on graduation night in 1988 and spend the night and part of the next day together. Despite their …
Charlie, the only out gay student at an all-boys prep school in England, forms a crush on handsome, athletic Nick. Despite dire warnings from his friends, Charlie gives in to his crush on the apparently straight Nick, forming an unlikely friendship. It’s hard to explain everything that is right with this show. It’s a charming …
Full disclosure, I’ve never been a fan of K-Drama – the overacting and sappiness are just too much. That said, I adored this charming romantic comedy. Rich, high-powered Yoon Se-ri, a South Korean business woman, is blown into the DMZ in a freak paragliding accident, where she lands on the handsome, honest, serious Captain Ri …
Jane Austen started writing Sanditon but died before it was finished, so she left nothing but the characters and a setting for the story – an oceanside village that a local promoter is trying to make into a grand resort destination. That set up allowed the writer to take this adaptation to a darker place …
A half-hour drama about the lives and loves of a group of gay friends in modern-day San Francisco.
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 …
An anthology series (different actors and stories each episode), with each episode telling a love story. Amazing actors – Dev Patel, Andrew Scott, Catherine Keener, Tina Fey and more. Importantly, the stories are not necessarily about romantic love – there is friendship, family, and yes – romance, but romance is usually not the main love …
A short series, very Dickensian. The story of two families, and more importantly, the two matriarchs, bound together by a secret. A trademan’s wife and a Duchess find themselves adversaries and surprising allies, while villains are villainous. Some are redeemed, the just prevail and virtue is rewarded. The wonderful Tamsin Grieg and Harriet Walter lead …
A perfectly serviceable adaptation of a Trollope novel. Filled with snobbish people, young love, revenge and family secrets.
Adapted from a popular series of romantic novels, this series as adapted by Shonda Rhimes integrates Black characters (almost) without comment. A cheeky interpretation (many of the scenes are backed by “classical” versions of modern pop songs. Intrigue and romance, love thwarted, scheming mamas, gamblers and opera singers and innocent ladies – all narrated by …