PBS
The yearly conclusion of All Creatures Great & Small on PBS is a bit like Groundhog Day here in the U.S., signaling that the end of winter is heading our way. ("Groundhog Day," meaning the actual event of a groundhog sticking his head out of a hole,
Acorn TV
How far would you go for a friend? Lie for them? Keep a secret? Help them kill themselves if they asked you to? That's the ethical quandry at the heart of Truelove, a thriller with a uniquely emotional twist that's set to arrive on Acorn TV
Paramount+
John Watson has been skirting medical ethics by prescribing his own medication to treat his traumatic brain injury on Watson. That opened him up to a lot more liability than potentially getting in trouble with the medical board because his righthand man Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) is secretly working for
PBS
Funny Woman Season 2, we hardly knew ye! I wish we’d gotten at least two more episodes of the life and times of Sophie Straw, but it’s been a fun, brisk quartet of episodes. I both enjoy and admire how the season’s many significant plots and character
PBS
Make sure you have some tissues handy! The touching and emotionally charged Christmas episode of All Creatures Great & Small Season 5 has once again been tacked on directly onto the season itself by Masterpiece to serve as a holiday-themed finale. It’s now December 1942, and the course of
Apple TV
Season 1 of Apple TV+'s mystery/thriller Surface introduced audiences to amnesia victim Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). A gorgeous, wealthy woman British expat in San Francisco, she wakes up having fallen off a boat with none of her memories. Aside from her seemingly doting husband James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen)
Movies
If you haven’t been paying attention to Daisy Ridley’s career since she last played Rey in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, then you’ve missed out on the joy of watching the actress prove her talents in a series of really interesting roles in a
Exclusive
If you’re a fan of getting nosey about other people’s suburban sins, both sexy and sordid, then The Couple Next Door certainly delivered on its promise. In just six episodes, viewers got to witness the undoing of two separate neighboring couples, Danny and Becka Whitwell, played by Sam
Movies
If you need a dose of joy in your life, there is no better remedy than the National Theatre Live’s The Importance of Being Earnest. This production of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy originally ran at London’s Lyttleton Theatre from November 2024 to January 2025. Now, thanks to
Starz
I was pretty cheeky at the top of my recap for The Couple Next Door premiere. I assumed critics just didn't know how to have a good time anymore and suspend disbelief in favor of entertaining messiness. It turns out, and I hate to admit it, the critics
Apple TV
Two and a half years ago, the season finale of Apple TV+'s Surface had its amnesiac protagonist, Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), instigate a massive cliffhanger and then knock off to London, escaping a lot of mess she created in San Francisco. It wasn’t until December 2022 that
Disney/Hulu
From writer/creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) comes Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, a stylish series about the rough and tumble streets of London’s East End in the 1880s. Mixing boxing, a gang of female thieves, and stories of immigration, the result is a remarkably entertaining six-episode first season.