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'Lucky' series review: Anya Taylor-Joy cons Apple TV crime thriller out of money
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as the titular Luciana "Lucky" Armstrong in Lucky, a new miniseries based on Marissa Stapley's novel of the same name. We link up with the character in Las Vegas, Nevada where she's celebrating a heist with her husband Cary (Drew Starkey), $10 million tucked in a suitcase. Next morning, she wakes up in their hotel room and finds both Cary and the money gone. Lucky is pursued by the authorities and Harris Dutch (Clifton Collins Jr.). Naturally, Lucky goes

S.J.
6 days ago


'Silo' season 3 review: Apple TV dystopian sci-fi drama weaponises truth bombs
This is one of the many dumb jokes not included in season three of Silo (adapting Hugh Howey's book series of the same name), which returns to bring us our weekly dose of dystopian drama shenanigans. Following the flaming cliffhangers, we do discover that Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) did make it out alive, but she's now experiencing memory loss. In a past timeline, American congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) attempts to get involved in the country's military mi

S.J.
Jul 29


2026 Emmy nominations predictions: Drama, comedy, limited series & TV movie
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to be presented on September 5-14, 2026, with nominations to be announced on Tuesday, July 8th. Below, you can find our predictions in all the main categories for drama, comedy, limited series and TV movies.
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms
Bridgerton
Paradise
Pluribus
Slow Horses
Task
The Diplomat
The Pitt
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
OUTSTANDING LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES
OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE
Last upd

S.J.
Jul 4


'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed' season 1 review: Tatiana Maslany faces facts in Apple TV drama thriller
Tatiana Maslany stars in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed as Paula who's a divorced mom and fact checker whose online life leads to unpredictable outcomes. She regularly chats and pays for private shows with "Trevor" (Brandon Flynn). He later calls her asking for money, saying that he'll be killed unless he pays his debts to the attacker. Paula reports this to the police and detectives Sofia Gonzalez (Dolly De Leon) and Baxter (Jon Michael Hill) are assigned to the case. Oh, but t

S.J.
May 25


'Beef' season 2 review: Netflix dark comedy fights a losing cattle
We're all out of waspf, but we do have more Beef if you're interested. In season two of this anthology series, we meet fresh-faced Gen Z sweethearts Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin (Charles Melton). They work at a Californian country club. A recent engagement and financial struggles are on their minds. They smell an opportunity when they see and film a fierce fight between their manager Joshua (Oscar Isaac) and his English wife Lindsay (Carey Mulligan), an affluent, millenn

S.J.
Apr 16


'Daredevil: Born Again' season 2 review: Disney+ action crime drama gives 'em hell
Daredevil: Born Again returns to crush bodies and wrestle with faith as its second season follows Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) when he is forced to operate in the shadows. Daredevil investigates a cargo ship carrying suspicious weapons, which seemingly has ties to New York City's mayor Wilson Fisk's (Vincent D'Onofrio) anti-vigilante guidelines that seek to capture and punish vigilantes. Matt and his girlfriend Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) are mostly in hiding becaus

S.J.
Mar 29


The 10 best TV shows of 2025
Spy thrillers, epic sci-fi, murder mysteries, cringe comedies and samurai action. Incels, pilots, office workers, authors, money launderers and rebels. Devouring feculence, getting hit by paint cans and hanging out with alligators. Put all of these elements together and you have a recipe for outstanding television.
ADOLESCENCE (miniseries)
ANDOR (season 2)
LAST SAMURAI STANDING | イクサガミ
POKER FACE (season 2)
SEVERANCE (season 2)
SILO (season 2)
SLOW HORSES (season 5)
THE STUDI

S.J.
Jan 24


'The Beast In Me' series review: Claire Danes & Matthew Rhys are closed books in Netflix crime thriller
On a more serious note, there's nothing that writers love more than writing about writers, which brings us neatly to a new miniseries called The Beast In Me. This eight-episode crime thriller created by Gabe Rotter and showrun by Howard Gordon starts with one thing and that's Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes). She's a successful author. Aggie's life takes an unexpected left turn when her new neighbours in Oyster Bay, New York turn out to be Nile (Matthew Rhys) and Nina Jarvis (Britt

S.J.
Nov 13, 2025


'Slow Horses' season 5 review: Apple TV+ spy thriller rules, London drools
Everyone's favourite spy thriller series Slow Horses returns to rage at nightclubs and cook with toxic gas, adapting 'London Rules' from Mick Herron's 'Slough House' series of novels in the process. In season five, the titular group—J.K. Coe (Tom Brooke), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) and Shirley Dander (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) —led by Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) is on full freak-out mode when they discover that Ho is dating a real woman.

S.J.
Oct 20, 2025


'Wayward' series review: Netflix mystery drama goes looking for trouble
You're in luck because Wayward arrives just when you thought there was nothing. This new miniseries is set in 2003 and one of our entry points is Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin; they're also the series' creator and co-showrunner), a cop who is moving to Tall Pines, Vermont alongside his pregnant girlfriend Laura (Sarah Gadon) who's originally from there. In Toronto, we meet Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind), two teenage best friends going through a somewhat rebel

S.J.
Sep 24, 2025


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