TV Show Reviews

Michael Mann sets the tone for this slick crime drama, with echoes of The Insider meets Miami Vice, and a welcome authenticity partly thanks to Ansel Elgort's predominantly Japanese dialogue - Updated for full season review, now available in the UK.  

Netflix launches a pretty entertaining new David E. Kelley lawyer thingy, which is as slick as it gets, but enjoys a charismatic lead in Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.  

Apple's adaptation of Sarah Parry's 2016 novel The Essex Serpent is a slow-drawn but well-drawn period mystery enjoying the welcome dual leads of Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston.  

We take an early look at what could be the best new Trek in decades, boasting Original Series vibes with a charismatic Captain and a welcomly refreshing episodic format, hoping to put things back on course.  

Elisabeth Moss finds another show to look permanently disgusted in, whilst Apple stretches a pilot plot out over three long episodes in this new serial killer thriller-with-a-twist, which could live up to its David Fincher vibes if it could just get going.  

In desperate need of Adam "Vice" McKay's satirical wit, Julia Roberts' Gaslit still has a huge ensemble of wild stars, all thoroughly enjoying colouring in the backdrop to the Watergate scandal.  

HBO Max's dystopian Rosario Dawson vehicle, based on the Vertigo comic run, loses much of its socio-political bite in favour of derivative gang warfare and undercooked family drama.  

Josh Brolin commands this intriguing blend of Yellowstone and The OA - an unlikely union that yields frequently surprisingly compelling mystery drama results.  

Gary Oldman bolsters this strong and oftentimes compelling little spy show from the consistently reliable Apple.  

Some of Samuel L. Jackson's finest acting defines this excellent and unmissable dementia-driven drama from Apple.  

Ridley Scott's bold and audacious sci-fi series returns for a second season that gets off to a slow start but promises more wild far-future tales.  

Over 20 years after Halo: Combat Evolved first launched, and we finally get a big budget adaptation following the fabled Master Chief, but is it all that we've been waiting for?  

With Moon Knight arriving on Disney+ Marvel tries something a little different, venturing a ways down the horror-comedy route, but getting off to a rather inauspicious start.  

The TV spin-off nobody expected, from the soft reboot sequel nobody asked for, Peacemaker is one of the best new shows you may or may not get around to seeing in January - EDIT - but which has finally landed in the UK in March!  

ITV nabs a surprisingly well-drawn long-form adaptation of Len Deighton's classic Harry Palmer story The Ipcress File, which may walk in Michael Caine's shadow, but at least does so with style.  

Picking up from a tone and pace set by the first season, Picard returns with more of the same (slightly less existential angst maybe) and a very poor first episode.  

Two and a half long years later and the tremendous Peaky Blinders returns to finish the story it started that we've now long forgotten.  

Apple TV+ continues its winning streak with its latest science fiction series, a cutting comedy thriller based around office politics and memory manipulation.