Apple TV
Apple TV+ has always had grand ambitions for its streaming service, and why shouldn't it? As one of the richest tech companies in the world, Apple has the money to spend on high-end dramas, if not always the best taste in what they should be. (Sorry to The
Peacock
Peacock continues to try to figure out where it fits into the landscape of the streaming world. When NBC-Universal launched it in 2020, it was the last of the old-school "big four" broadcast networks to get into the market, and it attempted something different than everyone else, to
Drama
The BBC has announced further casting for its upcoming detective thriller The Jetty, a series that will reportedly wrestle with complex questions of sexual morality and identity The four-part series stars Jenna Coleman as Ember Manning, a rookie detective called in to investigate after a fire tears through a holiday
Feature
Welcome back to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, our Gilded Age column covering exclusively Carrie Coon’s costumes in her role as the beautiful and socially ambitious nouveau riche matron Bertha Russell. Series costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone’s costumes for other characters are fascinating and worthy of conversation, but
Netflix
As the current most successful streaming service, Netflix has a lot of original programming and films to market to viewers over the year; a task made difficult by the sheer glut of entertainment and information that pours forth from the internet on a daily basis. Where once, something like a
PBS
Annika has always had daddy issues hovering in the background of the series since the series began, an odd choice considering it's a series centered around a female police detective and her daughter. But men aren't the only ones who have issues with their fathers, and
PBS
This week's World on Fire actually starts in France, but for continuity's sake, we'll discuss Libya first and then backtrack since most of the season has led off with North Africa. Also, like in France, things are pretty dire. The British soldiers are on
PBS
Poor Rose! I know I haven’t been exactly sympathetic towards her in these Hotel Portofino recaps. But you would have to have a heart made of stone to not feel for Rose in “Subterfuges.” She dons a sexy negligee and begins to seduce Lucian and tries to ...how do
TNT/TBS
The Lazarus Project didn't have the most fortuitous start in the U.S. Originally scheduled to debut on cable channel TNT and then stream on HBO Max, it bumped off the calendar less than a week before it was initially scheduled to premiere in January 2023 due to
Apple TV
Apple TV’s The Buccaneers is something of an unconventional adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final unfinished novel, a series that rejects prestige stateliness for a distinctly youthful attitude and contemporary feel. A show that’s often as brash and messy as the girls at its center, it’s certainly
BritBox
Renewing a show initially planned as a limited, closed-ended series can be risky, but for Jimmy McGovern’s Time, it took what was a one-hit wonder and turned it into a tour-de-force series. Season 1, released in 2021, starred Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the newly imprisoned Mark Cobden
AMC/AMC+
Most streaming services are pretty straightforward. Download the app, find all the shows in one place, and watch. A few are a little more complex — Disney, for instance, has been prevented from putting Hulu under its main banner, Disney+, due to a longstanding deal where Comcast still owned a third