Lacy's love of British TV primarily involves evangelizing all things Doctor Who and watching as many period dramas as possible. York apologist and Ninth Doctor enthusiast, you can find her other writing all around the entertainment web.
Drama
The basic concept of this week's episode of The Larkins is simple. Ma's sister Bertha - who is, naturally, her complete opposite in virtually every conceivable way - comes to visit the farm and friction ensues. And, as such things go, it's fine. I
Comedy
it's true, popular Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso isn't precisely a British series. But it's such a good show, with such decidedly British sensibilities (I mean, it basically had a Christmas special last season) that it seems basically built in a lab to appeal
Drama
The highly anticipated fourth season of cat-and-mouse thriller Killing Eve arrives in just a couple of months, and BBC America has given us a rather fantastic holiday present: The first real trailer for the final run of episodes. (Granted, it's only 30 seconds long, but at this point,
Drama
It seems unlikely that anyone is watching Acorn TV's The Larkins for its high-stakes drama. There really isn't any. Each episode usually features an overarching plot, but none of them are what you might call deep. This week, the hour's larger "story"
Drama
Netflix gave Bridgerton fans the best Christmas gift of all this year: An official premiere date for Season 2. (And one that's so much sooner than most of us likely expected!) The first season of Bridgerton dropped on Christmas Day in 2020, a colorful, confectionary swirl of romance
Drama
As we emotionally prepare ourselves to enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the virus is now infiltrating our pop culture in more concrete ways than simply causing the shows we love to arrive on our screens months after they were
Culture
For a year that was again frequently marred by shutdowns and production setbacks, there've been a surprising number of great releases on our screens in 2021. Granted, most of them arrived in a flurry through the latter half of the year as those same delays eased (though our
Drama
The Larkins' third episode, "In Which Ma and Pa Go on Holiday," is basically exactly what it says on the tin, and no one is likely at all surprised, or even remotely upset, by that fact. Part of the appeal of this show is its quiet straightforwardness,
Comedy
Though many viewers likely have some mixed opinions about the way that the second season of the award-winning comedy Ted Lasso wrapped up, it's hard to argue the idea that the Apple TV+ series is one of the sweetest, most heartwarming things on any platform at the moment.
Drama
It's the end of an era, sort of. While acclaimed drama Killing Eve will only have aired four seasons and fewer than 40 episodes by the time its final credits roll, the dark drama that followed the story of an intelligence agent and the assassin with whom she
Drama
Given everything happening in the world around us at the moment - global pandemic, new coronavirus variants, supply and production shortages, and all manner of other reminders that no matter how much we might want to be we're just not back to normal quite yet - it'
Drama
For the better part of 500 years, we've been obsessed with the story of Anne Boleyn. Queen of England in her own right, her life is largely remembered for the facts of her death - and her inability to give her insane husband King Henry VIII a male