Author: James Brad

As of May 20, the first two of ten episodes of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed are available to stream on Apple TV (the remaining episodes will be released one per week on Wednesdays). This dark comedy-thriller series was created by David J. Rosen (creator of Sugar, and writer of several episodes of Hunters and Citadel 2) and stars Tatiana Maslany, known for Orphan Black and She-Hulk. If you’re looking for a miniseries—or at least a self-contained thriller series—it’s worth noting that this new series was written to continue into a second season, which has yet to be confirmed. But if you…

Amid the boom in South Korean productions and the superhero genre—which shows no signs of ever going out of style while constantly reinventing itself—Netflix is releasing The Wonderfools, a series that combines the two concepts in a way that surely made someone think, “What could possibly go wrong?” And the answer is: everything. Kang Eun-Kyung returns to Netflix as the creator of The Wonderfools after having tested the waters of superpowers in the series An Unusual Family, but instead of having her characters lose their special abilities, here they are discovering and exploring them. It’s far from a revolution for…

The legend of ‘Money Heist’ is over, and it’s time to accept it. There’s no point in dragging out the story of the most famous gang of thieves on the small screen with spin-offs and remakes: the Spanish heist series that became a global phenomenon has nothing left to tell, and the poor quality of its spin-off—available on Netflix since May 15 with a second installment titled ‘Berlin and the Lady with the Ermine’—is proof of that. Berlin and the Lady with the Ermine: the plot Let’s start with the plot. The second season of ‘Berlin’ tells the story of…

Specifically, the first season, developed by Louisa Levy, adapts The Deal, the first novel published by Kennedy in 2015, which has been followed (so far) by four other books in the main series and eight more in the two Off Campus spin-off series. Meanwhile, season 2 of the TV series was already confirmed months before the release of the first. Off Campus is about love, sex, and ice hockey. Given this premise, it’s easy to think of Heated Rivalry, the TV series that premiered in recent months on HBO and became a global phenomenon, also based on a series of…

The Punisher: One Last Kill, Marvel Studios’ special presentation dedicated to the iconic character and released on Disney+ on May 13, left us with a strange feeling. And, as you can already tell from the review’s rating, we don’t necessarily mean that as a negative: the short format, akin to a true mid-length film, continues to strike us as a more than apt choice to give space and justice to small corners of the MCU; Jon Bernthal is, once again, exceptional in the role; and the Punisher’s signature violence was certainly not held back. In short, there is much to…