Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The granddaddy of British parody, and still the funniest thing Rowan Atkinson has ever done. Across four seasons, Blackadder reinvents itself each time: a snivelling medieval prince, a courtly dandy surrounded by gits, a butler in Georgian Bath, and finally…
Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk is the dumbest smart woman on television, and this five part Netflix co production with the BBC is her masterpiece. Cunk on Earth sends the professional idiot through the whole of human civilization, from the Big…
Peter Morgan’s drama about Queen Elizabeth II’s reign is the gold standard of the Netflix prestige era. Each two season block recasts the royals, Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, and each actress builds the same woman at a different…
Five episodes about the 1986 nuclear disaster, and not one wasted minute. Jared Harris’s scientist, Stellan Skarsgard’s bureaucrat, and Emily Watson’s physicist work to contain a reactor that cannot be contained while the Soviet system lies about everything. The radiation…
Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer, yearns to explore and raid the distant shores across the ocean.