Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
Mystery
The good news about Season 2 of Baptiste is that it is far more engaging than Season 1. That's almost entirely due to the guest cast, led by Fiona Shaw. Shaw's Emma Chambers is a complicated woman. She's someone desperate to be loved by
Mystery
Leonard's court date is upon us on Grantchester, and the church is handling about as well as can be expected. The Bishop (Stuart Bowman) turns up and fires him, withdrawing his license and all. Will wants to stand for Leonard in court, but Leonard refuses; after all, doing
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who: Flux is the show's first six-part adventure since Classic Who and 1979's "The Armageddon Factor" during the Fourth Doctor era. (Once the series crossed into the 1980s, serials shrank to 3 and 4 parters; even "Trial of a Timelord" was
Reality
It's Pastry Week in the tent on The Great British Baking Show, one of the standard-issue weeks that has been with the show almost since the dawn of the series. Pastry Week is one of those that always falls late in the game but is never quite so
Drama
When A Very English Scandal debuted in 2018, the three-part drama was billed as a limited series in its U.S. run on Amazon. It competed as such in the Emmys that year, taking home Outstanding Supporting Actor for Ben Whishaw, one of three awards he took home for the
Sci-Fi
The Wheel of Time is the next big British-esque fantasy series heading to streaming. Based on the 14-book fantasy series of the same name by Robert Jordan, the series is set in a fantasy of the rural medieval British countryside that slowly expands to cover an entire continent's
Mystery
When Happy Valley debuted in 2014, the cop drama was the third hit series from the mind of Sally Wainwright, who was also known for her mystery series Scott & Bailey and her family drama Last Tango in Halifax. The series starred Sarah Lancashire as the iconic Sergeant Catherine Cawood,
Drama
When Masterpiece announced it was bringing Around The World in Eighty Days to American shores last month, it was the end to a pandemic-riddled saga of getting the David Tennant series made. Originally envisioned as a Christmas series for the BBC and European markets for 2020, filming for the project
Mystery
After a disappointing first season, Baptiste landed feet first with the opener for Season 2, hitting the new season out of the park on the first round with future Dame Fiona Shaw as Tchéky Karyo's latest co-star. This season opened with a mystery that didn't just
Mystery
After three weeks of mysteries that either furthered Leonard's story or distracted from it, this week's Grantchester brings a fulcrum of sorts. Technically, this week's case is separate from the ongoing soap opera, pulling Will away at a critical time so Daniel and Leonard
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who's thirteenth season will coincide with the departure of the Thirteenth Doctor, which is either doubly lucky or doubly dangerous, depending on what sort of superstition you subscribe to. For this 13x13 season, the series is taking further risks by changing up the format completely, moving from
Reality
For the first four series of The Great British Baking Show (the U.K. editions, not the American ones, which means we're only talking The Beginnings Season 1 and regular edition GBBO Season 2 here), each Theme Week was a basic bake. Not Just Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and