Author: Sridhar

A curious take on the small-town mystery genre, The Boroughs is the new series that has just landed on Netflix, produced by the creators of Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers. This sci-fi miniseries, written by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, evokes Cocoon and The Goonies, The Thursday Murder Club, and the aforementioned Netflix cult classic; it’s delightfully full of references (Geena Davis appears in a scene clearly inspired by Thelma & Louise), entertaining, and with a touch of horror. Set in a luxury retirement community, The Boroughs follows former engineer Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), a recent widower, as he is…

All good things must come to an end, as they say. And this inevitably applies to today’s hit TV shows, not least Emily in Paris. One of Netflix’s biggest hit series in recent years, the show starring Lily Collins has become a phenomenon not only on television but also in style and pop culture. Last January, a renewal for a sixth season was announced, but in the last few hours, coinciding with the start of filming in Greece, news broke that the upcoming sixth season will also be the last: “Thank you for letting us be a part of your…

The wait for the fourth season of Reacher has been a little longer than fans expected, but the hit series on the Prime Video streaming platform, starring the beloved Alan Ritchson, will return to screens by the end of the year. After three seasons, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Reacher, but fans might be surprised by the direction the series takes when it returns with the Season 4 premiere: Of course, the former military police detective turned nomadic anti-hero played by Alan Ritchson will continue to beat up bad guys and dispense justice across…

The warning signs were there; there’s no point in denying it: as early as Season 4 (see our review of The Boys Season 4) and in our preview of The Boys Season 5, we had noted how the show’s long-standing flaws had reached a critical point. But this is not meant to be an attempt to pass ourselves off as some kind of phantasmagorical Nostradamus; on the contrary, because not even in our worst-case scenarios did we imagine such a collapse, where every narrative and structural choice (or at least, the few that exist) turned out to be wrong or…

After years in the making—consider that the announcement dates back to 2018—the animated series inspired by Devil May Cry is now in its second season, just one year after the first: It was strongly championed by the multifaceted producer Adi Shankar, a die-hard fan of the Capcom series, who drew only loose inspiration from the video games’ plot, writing a story set in a parallel universe that serves as an ideal entry point for those unfamiliar with Devil May Cry, yet at the same time has upset longtime fans. What upset fans were not only the changes made to the…

WARNING: Spoilers for The Perfect Crown ahead! IU and Byeon Woo-seok apologized on their social media accounts following the airing of the final episodes of The Perfect Crown, which sparked controversy in South Korea over a scene that portrayed the country as a “vassal state”—that is, submissive—to China. What happens in the controversial scene from The Perfect Crown? The sequence in question is the coronation of I-an, Byeon Woo-seok’s character, as the new king of Korea. The series is set in an alternate 21st century where the Asian country still lives under a constitutional monarchy. In the scene, which takes…

Beef – The Show immediately stood out as one of the most innovative and compelling series when it arrived on Netflix in 2024. Produced by A24, it told the story of a downward spiral of despair and fear into which the protagonists (Steven Yeun and Ali Wong) were plunged after a single, ill-timed honk at a parking lot exit. A trivial encounter that sparked a feud (a clash, in fact) with unimaginable consequences: here’s our review of the first season of Beef. After eight Emmys and a Golden Globe, there was great anticipation for the announcement of a second season,…

There’s just one episode left until the finale of The Boys, the TV series that has redefined the superhero genre on both the small and big screens. The show got off to a great start but then, as often happens with anything that becomes a franchise, it lost its edge over time, reaching a point of no return with episode 7 of season 5. So far, The Boys Season 5 has delivered a highly controversial final season, the result of a writing process that has revealed a general sense of fatigue: it’s clear, even from past seasons, that the Prime…

In the new spin-off of The Big Bang Theory, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, fans should get ready to return to the iconic comic book store that Sheldon and his friends loved so much—but not in the way many expected. As the title suggests, the new series—written and produced by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prad—will indeed be a continuation of the hilarious comedy through the character of Stuart Bloom, the comic book store owner played by Kevin Sussman; but it will take the story into a completely different dimension—or rather, multiple different dimensions. The proof comes from…

Now in its second season, we can say with certainty: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is exactly what Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was to the MCU—at least during the first half of its run—namely, a sort of companion to the events of the films. And, let’s be clear, we don’t mean this in a negative way; on the contrary, in our opinion, it’s a clever way to delve deeper and add depth to both the narrative universe itself and the major events, viewing them from different perspectives (the build-up of the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which essentially serves as a…