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The set-up paves the way for a wonderful series of amusing dialogues between the old biddy and the ‘quintet’ whose pretence she never twigs until the final comically violent frames. Guinness and Lom are the standouts; both look as if they’d strayed in from a Hammer production. ...
Spin-off series are usually never as good as the original and very often outright bad. Better Call Saul is definitely not an example of that rule. The prequel to the current number 1 in the best TV Series of all time ranking, Breaking Bad, shows the same strengths as the original. No...
All these years later, the familiarSeinfeld-esque convergence of subplots at the end of episodes still pays huge comic dividends, whether the stories were familiar (like Jerry, Larry winds up befriending a key participant from the 1986 World Series) or wildly different (Larry hires a sex ...
(the voice of Daniel Stern)tells usthat Kevin’s father (Dan Lauria) will die not long after the events of the series. The show’s air of innocence was infectious, and that’s been ably captured by the current reboot (which was for a time produced by Savage, before colleagues at the...
ignorance. What makes this BBC period drama compelling is that both are naive about each other's ways of life, but soon their misconceptions melt away as does their animosity into blatant attraction. Many recognizable character actors appear throughout the series, including Brendan Coyle ofDownton ...
Like many BBC serials of the era, it was made on a low budget, with sound studio sets, and generally avoided battle and crowd scenes due to inability to stage them in a convincing manner. The series is based on the Marlboroughs' famous descendant Winston Churchill's life of his ...
It’s time to give the BBC some attention. As the undeniable home of British drama, the studio has given us some wonderful TV series over the years. In just the last few years, the BBC has really been spoiling us, with the limited series Normal People a prime example of the quality ...
Before there was Yellowjackets, there was The Wilds, a drama series that was also centered on a group of teenage girls who find themselves stranded in the woods after a plane crash (but without all the cannibalism). In its first season, the show was praised for its realistic depiction of ...
Next on our list of the best TV shows of all time isOnly Fools And Horses. This British television sitcom debuted in 1981, on BBC One, and ran for ten years, with a further sixteen sporadic Christmas episodes. In a nutshell, the series follows the “Trotters,” a south-east London fam...