Category: TV series
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Riot Women, invisible no longer
Riot Women, written and directed by Sally Wainwright, tells the story of five menopausal women who have at least 50 problems each. They deal with life by forming a punk rock band. The series will air in weekly installments in the U.S. on BritBox beginning in January 2026. I’m keeping this review spoiler free in…
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Quick Takes on films and TV
This post is one of those quick looks at several films and TV shows I don’t feel the need to write a complete review about. Today’s topics will be the live action How to Train Your Dragon, Task, Maintenance Required, and Peacemaker, season 2.
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The Diplomat, S3, Keri Russell still saving the world
The Diplomat, season 3, showed its love for the binge watchers by uploading all 8 episodes of the new season on the same day. So naturally, I watched them all immediately! This series, created by Debora Cahn, is irresistible. It’s so good! High stakes drama, humor, interesting relationships, brilliant characters, sharp dialog, and outstanding actors…
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The Crow Girl, dark police procedural
The Crow Girl is a dark and mysterious British adaptation of a Swedish novel. Eve Myles, Dougray Scott, and Katherine Kelly star in this one. It starts off like a simple murder mystery but grows darker and more foul as the investigation expands. This review is of season one. Season two is filming now.
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Long Story Short, an animated family dramedy
Long Story Short could have been a long story. If it were a novel it would be a generations-long family saga about a Jewish family of about 800 pages. This animated TV series manages to explore the entire family and even a few secondary characters in 10 concise half hour episodes.
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Obituary, dark Irish humor in a murder mystery
Obituary is an Irish series full of mystery and dark humor. Siobhán Cullen stars as Elvira Clancy. Elvira is an entirely appropriate name for this mistress of the dark. She is a writer who manages to land a job at her local newspaper writing obituaries. This review is only about season 1.
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Wayward, Mae Martin brings a creepy vibe
Wayward is by turns a love story, a thriller, and a horror-light look at a school for troubled teens hidden away in the Vermont woods and surrounded by a very peculiar town.
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Graveyard, a Turkish crime series, season 1 review
Graveyard (Mezarlik) is a police procedural from Türkiye. It’s a series about a woman who is assigned to head a special investigations unit working only on the cases of murdered women.
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High Country, a tense mystery series
High Country is an Australian police/mystery series. Leah Purcell stars as a cop who moves her family to a small town in the mountains of Victoria. It isn’t as peaceful and serene as she hoped. She uncovers a complex web of crimes and murders that involve many people.