I had a damn good time watching TV this year. Not everything wowed me–Reacher was a slog, I don’t understand the now old buzz about The Blacklist, Wisting was too gloomy, and The Bear, a yawn. But these are quibbles in a very good year. And for the purposes of this column, I’m sticking to…
I’m watching Season Three of Reacher—my husband, who loves the books, is also suffering through it—and I am furious. Not just at the show, which is violently dull and predictably brutal, but at the culture that continues to treat this blood-soaked void as serious storytelling. We’re three seasons in, and the only evolution is that…
This year I discovered TV Time, a well-designed app that makes it easy to keep track of the shows you’ve watched and want to watch. Thus, I can tell you with complete confidence that my favorite TV show of 2024 is Hacks…. or Black Doves … or The Diplomat. I CAN’T CHOOSE–2024 was a year of so…
I have, for the past two months, been reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. This, dear readers, is astonishing. And I’m not talking about the book although it is phenomenal. No–it’s that I’ve stuck with and enjoyed this book! It’s non-fiction (not my usual fare), over 700 pages long, and about war (a topic…
Last week, the Washington Post had an in depth article about the British show Naked Attraction. I was startled to read that the show: The U.S. trailer asks viewers: “What do men and women really find physically attractive?” The “chooser” will then winnow down from a pool of six potential dates — whose fully nude…
It’s summertime and the watching is… what? It used to be that there was nothing on in the summer. Streaming has changed all that. (Although, as far as I’m concerned, there are no interesting sports on once basketball is done….) I’m so excited for the final season of Endeavour. (Those on the other side of…
After polishing off the final season of Derry Girls–good but not great though I could watch Siobhán McSweeney as Sister Michael all damn day–thoroughly enjoying Nicola Walker’s chatty Annika, loving the final of Shetland, and peering through the gloom (on the screen) at Wisting, Dr. Feelgood and I are now obsessively watching Peaky Blinders. We’re…
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I am three episodes into HBOMax’s mini-series, Station Eleven, based on the award winning and best selling novel by Emily St. John Mandel. I haven’t read the book, which, I suspect, would help me better understand its intricate and somewhat obscure plot. The show, thus far, is wistful, desperate, and hauntingly lovely. AND, it’s somewhat…
It’s here! I’ve just watched episode one–I thought it was smashing. I love the Queen’s boredom, Kate’s chat with Lady Danbury, Penelope’s desire for Lady Whistledown to do more, Benedict’s humor. The tone is less frivolous than season one which works for me. And I’ve adjusted to the changes the show is making–the Featherington heir,…
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