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'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


'Alien: Earth' season 1 review: Lost boys will be toys in FX sci-fi horror
Speaking of, Alien: Earth is a new series that is set in the 'Alien' franchise. This first season begins in 2120 in space and on Earth. Five corporations are in a race to the top. One of these is Prodigy whose young, eccentric human CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) develops hybrids in his research facility on a remote island alongside synth scientist Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant). We mainly follow Wendy (Sydney Chandler), the first functional hybrid who is essentially a child in

S.J.
Sep 20, 2025


2025 Emmy predictions: Drama, comedy, limited series & TV movie
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to be presented on September 6-14, 2025. The nominations were announced on Tuesday, July 15th. Below, you can find our predictions in all the main categories for drama, comedy, limited series and TV movie. And because we like to have fun and celebrate things we've enjoyed, there's also the "Should win" shout for achievements that we'd like to see take the trophy. Browse through them and perhaps you'll also find some help for your o

S.J.
Aug 25, 2025


'Hostage' series review: Netflix political thriller craves a captive audience
In Hostage, a new political thriller miniseries, Suranne Jones portrays Abigail Dalton who happens to be the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Abigail is trying to negotiate a deal with French president Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy) to fix the country's urgent medication shortage, but they are thrown a curveball when Abigail's husband, a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor Alex Anderson (Ashley Thomas), and his colleagues get abducted in French Guiana by masked goons.

S.J.
Aug 21, 2025


'Untamed' series review: Nature calls Eric Bana & Lily Santiago in Netflix crime drama
But it is a perfect setting for a miniseries like Untamed, which stars Eric Bana as Kyle Turner, a federal agent for the National Park Service investigating crimes in Yosemite. But since this is a crime drama, he's also a tortured soul and possibly an alcoholic, still feeling the aftershocks of a personal tragedy that severed his marriage with park counsellor Jill Bodwin (Rosemarie DeWitt). Kyle gets a new partner when fresh-faced agent Naya Vasquez (Lily Santiago) enters the

S.J.
Jul 17, 2025


'Smoke' series review: Apple TV+ crime drama plays with fire, Taron Egerton & Jurnee Smollett
And where there's a new miniseries called Smoke, there's also something charred, like fragile souls of men. Someone who knows a thing or two about that is David "Dave" Gudsen (Taron Egerton), a former firefighter and current arson investigator in the city of Umberland. There are two suspected serial arsonists terrorising the community so Dave receives a brand new partner in Michelle Calderone (Jurnee Smollett), a detective seemingly demoted to less important duties like arson

S.J.
Jun 30, 2025


2025 Emmy nominations predictions: Drama, comedy, limited series & TV movie
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to be presented on September 6-14, 2025, with nominations to be announced on Tuesday, July 15th. Below, you can find our predictions in all the main categories for drama, comedy, limited series and TV movies. OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Will Be Nominated
Andor
Paradise
Severance
Slow Horses
Squid Game
The Last Of Us
The Pitt
The White Lotus
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Will Be Nominated
Abbott Elementary
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murd

S.J.
Jun 28, 2025


'The Better Sister' series review: Jessica Biel & Elizabeth Banks bury the hatchet in Prime Video drama
Most of these also happen to have a lust for blood, including The Better Sister, a new miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Alafair Burke. Jessica Biel's character Chloe Taylor has some kind of a fancy job in media and lives a high-end life with her lawyer husband Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll) and their 15-year-old son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) in New York. But things go sideways real fast when Chloe comes home one night and finds Adam stabbed to death.

S.J.
May 28, 2025


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