●●●●○ The Greatest Dancer, by all appearances, is a generic televised talent competition. Currently airing on the BBC, it’s set up as a panel of four judges positioned against an elaborately lit stage, reminiscent of the glory days of X … Continue reading The Greatest Dancer Season 2 // Review
●●○○○ Fleets of starships looming impressively over bright and brilliant planets, Shakespearean actors confidently babbling about the ethos of space travel, and aliens with funny ears scheming against humanity. I am not a fan of Star Trek, having never followed … Continue reading Star Trek: Picard // Review
●●●●● With over two hundred screen adaptations to his name, Count Dracula ranks second only to Sherlock Holmes in his cinematic popularity. Consequently, the practice of resurrecting the character has become an increasingly difficult one to pull off over the … Continue reading Dracula // Review
●●●●● A horse walks into a rehab centre. Not quite the joke most of us would have expected when we initially (and in my case, tentatively) began Bojack Horseman’s first episode, but six seasons later, here we are. It was … Continue reading Bojack Horseman Season 6 // Review
●●●○○ Dublin Murders is the most recent foray by Irish TV into a media culture saturated with crime and police drama series. The series is an adaptation of crime novelist Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad book series, and is shown … Continue reading Dublin Murders // Review Deconstructing Dublin Murders
The influence of Skam (2015-2017) after its astoundingly successful run has remained very relevant. Its memory is sustained through seven international remakes, both satisfying the loss left in the show’s loyal fandom (to a point), and gaining plenty of new … Continue reading Why Skam Has Taken Over European TV The Norwegian TV show remains relevant, now more than ever
For too long the baseless stereotype that “women simply aren’t funny”, or rather, “women are not as funny as men”, has been allowed to stifle the creativity and progress of the entertainment industry. The recent resurgence of female-led shows, like … Continue reading The Success of Fleabag and the Impact of the Female Voice in Comedy Phoebe Waller Bridge’s love letter to modern women is full of caustic wit not typically seen in leading heroines, paving the way for the future of female-led comedy.
The BBC mini-series Daniel Deronda is something that I think about quite often, and yet it appears to have been overlooked in popular culture since its release in 2002. Directed by Tom Hooper and adapted by Andrew Davies, the BBC … Continue reading Daniel Deronda: Elegant and Overlooked
●●●●○ Following a successful but heavily criticised second season, Stranger Things has returned to Netflix with a Fourth of July-centered, eight episode-long spectacle which finally finds a fitting balance between its themes of coming-of-age, science fiction and nostalgia. Against a … Continue reading Stranger Things Season 3: Reviewed Grace Kenny reviews the latest season of Netflix’s nostalgic sci-fi hit.
●●●●○ 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
●●●●○ The second – and final – season of Netflix Original American Vandal was released in September this year following its successful first season, which amassed a cult-like online following. The show is a mockumentary, filmed and presented as a … Continue reading American Vandal: Season Two Reviewed Ren O’Hare takes a look at round two of the Netflix cult favourite.
●●●●○ 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