I know it’s been a while, but I have been watching stuff even though I haven’t been writing about it all. Colour me surprised when I renewed my Apple TV+ subscription in order to catch the latest and final season of Ted Lasso, only to end up watching several more series (and one documentary film)….
Category: Sitcoms
Fantasy TV for Fall 2022
As a fan of fantasy stories, I am loving that this post-Game of Thrones resurgence of the genre is making a big-budget run at streaming success. Previous seasons already gave us The Witcher and The Wheel of Time (sadly neither have become my favourites), and now we have a few more series bringing their tales…
Midwinter TV 2021
This time of year used to be when we got some midseason replacements for shows that didn’t survive the fall. However, in a year when there’s a dry breeze and tumbleweed rolling across the barren viewing schedule, we still get plenty of shows from our streaming channels to keep us busy (while we endure lockdowns)….
Fall TV 2020 – More Shows
I was particularly looking forward to catching new episodes of Netflix’s The Crown this past week as new and returning shows debut into the late fall and early winter. The pandemic-hobbled TV season continues sadly, with a lot of recent new shows having been disappointing and uninspiring. In a time when I could really use…
Fall TV 2020 – Second wave
Thanks to COVID-19, the fall TV season is in a very odd shape, but shows have continued to trickle out over the last few weeks. A lot of stuff comes from the streamers (who apparently have a healthy backlog), but even the broadcast networks are trying to stay in the game as a few shows…
TV Universes Keep Expanding
One of the best things about streaming TV is that it’s giving media companies a channel to expand their cinematic universes. For us fans, it means there is no end in sight to the new shows being announced, at least for three of the biggest sci-fi properties around: Star Trek, Star Wars, and Marvel (MCU)….
What I Watched in Quarantine – 10 Shows
While it’s far from the most important problem of the current pandemic (and its accompanying prolonged global shut-down), one of the side-effects will be that pretty soon (especially by the time the fall TV season is regularly scheduled to begin) TV networks and streaming services will run out of new content. That is a trivial…
Winter TV 2020
I keep saying that there’s so much TV I want to watch that I can’t keep up, but never has that been more true than this winter. Here’s a rundown of 15 new and returning shows that just kicked off in the last month or so. I have to be brief in my reviews of…
10 Favourite TV Shows of the Decade
This past 10 years has seen a lot of change on TV. We barely still call it “TV” because it’s mostly watched via internet streaming, and on-demand. This age of “peak TV” has brought some big names (and big budgets) to the small screen, and we get to enjoy the fruits. Now that the 2010s…
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