●●●●○ Woe betide any show that tries to start its run at the same time as cultural behemoth Game of Thrones airs its final season – but that is exactly what this intrepid half-hour comedy is doing. Following three series … Continue reading Ghosts BBC // Review
Overdue Among the literary podcasts from across the pond, Overdue – a podcast themed around all the books you should have read by now – is a firm favourite. Each week, American hosts Andrew Cunningham and Craig Getting focus on … Continue reading A selection of potential podcasts for all book lovers and writers alike
●●●●○ One of sci-fi’s many glass ceilings shattered with the arrival of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor in The Woman Who Fell to Earth. Caught in the now-standard confusion that follows regeneration from one Doctor to another, Thirteen crash-landed … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Woman Who Fell To Earth // review
●●●●○ Single mom Penelope (Justina Machado) faces the challenges of raising two teenagers and a grandmother once again in the third series of convivial sitcom One Day at a Time. The bright, busy Alvarez family apartment is back, complete with … Continue reading One Day At A Time // review TN2’s resident historical drama fan takes a peek at the present with this sitcom
●●●●● Netflix’s recent efforts to revive the rom-com bleed into one of its latest TV offerings with The Hookup Plan. The messy city lives of Friends meet the contemporary feel of The Bold Type in this French-language series about a … Continue reading The Hookup Plan // REVIEW This fresh, French-language series proves a heady mix of romantic comedy-drama
●●●●○ If killing off Keeley Hawes halfway through a series wasn’t enough to tell you that there’s little the BBC considers sacrosanct anymore, then just look at Upstart Crow, a near-blasphemous Shakespeare sitcom which has somehow become one of the … Continue reading Upstart Crow // Reviewed The smartest Shakespearean sitcom you’ve never seen
The days when anyone could claim women aren’t funny are long gone. From those plucky Derry Girls to Hannah Gadsby’s tour-de-force stand-up show Nanette, funny women are killing it on stage, on TV, and in movies at the moment. Here … Continue reading 5 Lady Comedians From Around the World Who Should Be On Your Radar
●●●●○ In some ways, turning William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair into a weekly costume drama is a return to its serialised roots. Now considered a classic novel, it is set during the Napoleonic Wars and first appeared in 1847-8 (around … Continue reading Vanity Fair // REVIEW This new Sunday night drama revels in its own Bacchanalian theatricality
It’s time for your next binge watch. You’re doing your best wine mom, with your feet up and some food on. But what to watch? Consider: foreign-language TV. I know, I know, subtitles are scary, but it will be worth … Continue reading Why foreign-language TV should be your next binge-watch Embrace the subtitles.
●●●○○ Netflix’s efforts to revive the rom-com reach another milestone with Sierra Burgess is a Loser: mediocrity. Sierra Burgess is not unlike previous hits of this so-called rom-com renaissance. It combines the semi-nostalgic teen-centric stylings and hot-right-now male lead of … Continue reading Sierra Burgess is a Loser // REVIEW It’s terrific to see a movie with a heroine who looks more like an ordinary teenage girl than Hollywood usually allows.
A Discovery of Witches is the kind of book that occupies a curious – and some might even say skilful – place between the pulpy and scholarly. This is story of Diana, a professor-turned-witch who invokes powerful magic upon discovering … Continue reading Read the book first: A Discovery of Witches
●●●●○ Jenny Han’s 2014 young adult novel To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before spent 40 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list (that’s right, long enough for people to grow entire humans) and has been translated into 30 … Continue reading Read the book first: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before Netflix’s latest book-to-screen adaptation has a young Asian-American girl’s heart at the heart of the story