Blackadder
Cast & Key People Stephen Fry Patsy Byrne Hugh Laurie Miranda Richardson Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Tony Robinson Tim McInnerny Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Blackadder (1983) is a comedy and history series from BBC One. It has built…
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Twenty Twelve
Cast & Key People David Tennant Hugh Bonneville Jessica Hynes Karl Theobald Amelia Bullmore Vincent Franklin Olivia Colman Morven Christie Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Twenty Twelve (2011) is a comedy series from BBC Two. It has built a…
W1A
Cast & Key People Hugh Bonneville David Tennant Jessica Hynes Hugh Skinner Jason Watkins Monica Dolan Nina Sosanya Ivan Gonzalez Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review W1A (2014) is a comedy series from BBC Two. It has built a run…
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
Cast & Key People Matthew Holness Richard Ayoade Matt Berry Alice Lowe Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) is a comedy and horror series from Channel 4. It has built a run of 6 episodes at…
Cunk on Earth
Cast & Key People Diane Morgan Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Cunk on Earth (2022) is a comedy and travel series from BBC iPlayer. It has built a run of 5 episodes at roughly 29 minutes each. It premiered…
Belzebubs
JP Ahonen's webcomic about a black metal family man made the jump to animation and lost none of its warmth in translation. Sløth, frontman of the world's least successful satanic band, is a stay at home dad raising Lilith and Leviathan with his wife Lucyfer, and the show's genius is playing every domestic beat completely straight: school interviews, in law visits, band practice in the garage, all conducted in corpse paint. The mockumentary confessionals, where family members speak to a documentary crew that is never explained, give it a Modern Family rhythm filtered through church burnings.
South Park: The End of Obesity
Special number seven takes on the weight loss drug era with the show's usual lack of mercy. When Cartman is denied the new miracle medication because he is not diabetic enough, he and Butters start sourcing it from Canada, and the plot builds to a full Cartman empowerment arc that satirizes body positivity discourse and pharmaceutical gatekeeping at the same time. A Lizzo subplot, where she is rebranded as the face of the drug to make it relatable, drew the loudest headlines and remains the special's boldest swing.
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
The sixth special is the influencer economy takedown fans had been waiting for. A new energy drink called Cred takes the school by storm, and the boys' quest to score it becomes a genuinely cutting look at how brands manufacture belonging and sell it to kids who cannot afford it. Meanwhile Randy launches an OnlyFans career with tragic optimism, and the special's most savage joke is that the adults' exploitation economy and the kids' hype economy are the same machine wearing different outfits.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
The fifth special is the multiverse parody everyone saw coming and nobody expected to be this pointed. Cartman dreams of a universe where everyone is diverse and it drives him insane, while the real plot follows a displaced multiverse version of him landing in our world and a desperate Disney executive, an unflattering Bob Iger caricature, trying to fix a company whose adult fans have turned on it. The special's take on pandering, box office panic, and the grown man Star Wars discourse is bracingly mean to everyone at once.
South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2
Part 2 pays off the cliffhanger with the reveal everyone expected handled in the least expected way, and the back half turns into a full parody of prestige crime dramas, complete with a Detective Harris investigation that eats half the runtime. Pi Pi, the urine obsessed water park owner, becomes the special's unlikely breakout villain with a crypto and NFT endorsed pitch to run Colorado's water supply, and a running joke about everyone in town having a podcast gets funnier each time it is deployed.