Apple TV
Most people probably missed Surface the first time around when it debuted on Apple TV +. The series initially arrived in 2022, about a month before the first season of Bad Sisters and less than a year after star Gugu Mbatha-Raw appeared in Max drama The Girl Before, another thriller
PBS
Sophie Straw (née Barbara Parker and played by Gemma Arterton) just wants to exercise her judgment in both professional and personal matters. Why is that so hard? That’s rhetorical; I know why it’s hard: there would be no TV show without this central conflict and journey, and it
PBS
Tristan Farnon relates a hair-raising wartime encounter as All Creatures Great & Small reaches the season's halfway point. James and Helen listen enthralled to his story, which builds to a tense climax when he recounts how he felt a pistol at his back. But the notorious prankster
PBS
So long and fare thee well to Patrick Nash. Miss Scarlet springs the morally gray private detective from prison for one last case in "The Deal" before putting him on a boat to Australia for (presumably?) good. The show gives him a fairly great send-off in an
Movies
On an idyllic honeymoon in a traditional (unnamed) European country, Delores (Sarah Goldberg) and Declan (Himesh Patel) immediately run into diplomatic issues. They are sequestered by a state security officer, Bkofl (Steven Yeun), in a sterile, office-like interrogation room and told they are suspected of smuggling cabbages into the
AMC/AMC+
Most Americans are unaware of the Sky series Gangs of London, despite the show initially debuting five years ago in April 2020 and now gearing up to debut its third season in March 2025. While not nearly as egregious as, say, Rogue Heroes being lost on MGM+, from its first
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T.S. Elliot claimed April was the cruelest month, but by my watch, that honor should go to February, which is grey, cold, and dreary. The only thing this month has in its favor is that if it's going to be nasty and brutish, at least it'
Movies
There’s a familiar and questionable trope at the heart of Plainclothes – someone exhibiting homophobic behavior or responsible for anti-LGBTQ+ violence is secretly repressing their own queerness. To writer-director Carmen Emmi’s credit, the film tries to sidestep the most egregious hallmarks of the trope, but in doing
Starz
The Couple Next Door has been practicing the art of the slow burn for the first two episodes of the season. Thankfully, the plot finally started showing signs of life, turning things up to a simmer in the middle episode. Becka invited Pete and Evie to a fancy spa weekend
Acorn TV
Everyone should probably know going into Acorn TV's new limited series Best Interests that the drama is not an easy watch. But that's often true of television that deals with difficult or important subject matter. (Still, have your tissues handy.) The four-part drama tackles the
PBS
Out of all the British series coming to American shores in 2025, the return of Wolf Hall to PBS, a decade after the series initially debuted, might be the most anticipated. The original series covered the two books released by Hilary Mantel at the time, Wolf Hall and Bringing Up
Netflix
Netflix is the home of several shows that have come to dominate the pop cultural landscape in recent years (Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday). However, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the streaming service’s international offerings — at least those not named Squid Game —are too often overlooked by the