Tag: Ato Essandoh

  • The Diplomat, S2: high stakes global pressure cooker

    The Diplomat, S2: high stakes global pressure cooker

    The Diplomat, season 2, continues with the same plot line that began in season 1. It’s of global concern who bombed a British naval vessel and killed over 40 British sailors. American Ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) investigates several possibilities with tense, behind the scenes action.

  • Reptile, long and brooding procedural

    Reptile, long and brooding procedural

    Reptile stars Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, and Justin Timberlake in a long and complicated tale of murder and corruption. We get a primo dose of Benicio Del Toro as the stoic, brooding homicide cop Tom Nichols in this one.

  • The Diplomat, smart and fascinating television

    The Diplomat, smart and fascinating television

    The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as Kate Wyler, the newly appointed US Ambassador to the UK. It wasn’t the job she wanted. She was thrown into it in mid crisis when somebody blew a giant hole in the side of a British Navy ship.

  • Review: Tales from the Loop

    Review: Tales from the Loop

    Tales from the Loop is a sci-fi drama series on Prime Video. It’s about time – time can stop, or loop back on itself, or pass in the blink of an eye, or simply march on whether we want it to or not.

  • Review: Altered Carbon

    Review: Altered Carbon

    Altered Carbon is a science fiction series set in a technologically advanced future where people with money and power could choose to never die. That was the central thesis and conflict in the 10 part series from Netflix. The series touched on many other themes, but superficially. I thought the series tried to do too…