Avengers Assemble
The movie face Avengers cartoon from Disney XD, 126 episodes across five seasons. The Cantons of Civilization genre episodes are the hidden gems. 7.0 on IMDb, all on Disney+.
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes Marvel cartoon fans still call the best Avengers series ever animated. Founding members one per episode, then the Kree Skrull war. 52 episodes, all on Disney+.
Planet Earth III
Twenty years after the original, David Attenborough returns for Planet Earth III, the eight-part BBC Studios Natural History Unit series with television’s hardest brief: find the unseen on a planet already filmed to death. The answer is to make climate…
Planet Earth II
Ten years on, the team went urban: the same species negotiating cities, highways and rooftops, cut like an heist film with an Attenborough whisper track. The concrete jungle hour (snakes taking the stairwells of Singapore) and the hawk versus pigeon…
Planet Earth
The nature documentary as action movie, shot over five years by the BBC Natural History Unit with budgets that had previously only been spent on planets in sci fi. David Attenborough narrates like a man reading you into bed, which…
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain on this show is not the guy you think he is. Before Parts Unknown polished him into a travel journalist with a food angle, No Reservations was a funny fat man with a bad mustache kicking down doors…
The A-Team
Four wronged Green Berets, one van, and a rule that the good guys never land a punch that shows. The A-Team is eighties action television reduced to a formula so pure it became a language: Hannibal sketches the plan, Face…
Doctor Who (2023)
The Disney era handed Russell T Davies the biggest budget in the show's history and Ncuti Gatwa the keys to the TARDIS, and the result is the most confident Doctor Who has looked in a decade. After three 60th anniversary specials gave David Tennant a victory lap, The Church on Ruby Road properly introduced Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor on Christmas 2023: a flashier, flirtier, more emotionally open Doctor with Millie Gibson's found family orphan Ruby Sunday alongside. The production upgrade is immediate, with cinematography and score that finally match the ambition the scripts always had.
Dark Matter
The one you meant: the 2015 space opera about six people who wake on a derelict ship with no memories, armed with a pile of weapons and a receipt for murders they cannot remember. Each carries a hidden past, and…
Star Trek: The Animated Series
The forgotten chapter: the original cast returned in 1973 for two animated seasons that are officially canon and quietly ambitious. Freed from budget limits by animation, the show went places live action never could: alien designs the 60s show could…