Running the gamut of tropes, we've seen witches, cults, haunted hotels, and more. With each season taking on a different spooky narrative, the Ryan Murphy series is creepy, compelling, and a little camp. Premiered: October 5, 2011 Dig Deeper The 22 Most Grotesque Things That Have...
Running the gamut of tropes, we've seen witches, cults, haunted hotels, and more. With each season taking on a different spooky narrative, the Ryan Murphy series is creepy, compelling, and a little camp. Premiered: October 5, 2011 Dig Deeper The 22 Most Grotesque Things That Have...
The TV. The box. The telly. The small screen. The television set (if you want to be formal). Call it what you want, we’re living in its golden age. Long gone is the time where all you had was a fistful of channels on your nan’s terrestrial static magnet; now, you could do ...
95. The Circle (Netflix) How to watch: Netflix Netflix's The Circle had a quarantine-friendly concept months before quarantining became a way of life for most Americans. When it premiered in January, The Circle's novelty was in how contestants were forbidden from having face-to-face co...
42. The Americans Eighties Cold War espionage epic The Americans kicks off with a rather hook-y premise. What if an FBI agent moves right across the street from Soviet agents who’ve spent years in the States assimilating to American life? Or…let’s flip that. What if Soviet Agents — ...
Sherlockhas always shown a keen but loving disregard for its source material. Despite serving up a bevy of classical crime-solving tropes, its fluid aesthetic and modern-day realism eschew the stuffy reverence of countless other re-toolings of Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated series. Instead, co...
Rather than fall into the trap of the same old comedic tropes, I found the humour quite irreverent, you never know what Noel will come up with next or in what direction each character is going to go. Great supporting cast and it's nice to see a show which clearly doesn't take ...
Shows to Binge-Watch: "The Americans" During the Cold War, a pair of KGB spies are assigned to a long-term, deep cover mission, posing as an ordinary married couple in the American suburbs. Over the years, they build a life and a family in their new home, but as they're called ba...
and media critics—have grown adept at merging the tropes of soap operas with the platitudes of history books with the higher, often impersonal production values of films released during Oscar season. What Swanberg brings to the medium is his sense of cinema as a self-critical gateway toward ...
‘The Americans’ FX The best TV dramas of the start of the 21st century were Trojan horses that used genre tropes (Mafia forThe Sopranos, cops and crooks forThe Wire, Western forDeadwood) to smuggle in much bigger commentary about the birth and/or death of the American dream. The 2010s...