OK, so I have Netflix, Crave, Disney (for a month, anyway) , Amazon Prime and CBC Gem. Why can’t I find a series I want to watch? I tried True Detective on Crave, but it seemed more like sci-fi than detective. I got a few episodes into Fool Me Once on Netflix, but gave up
The Christmas/holiday season is upon us. Once the shopping is done, the kids have been put to bed and/or the out-of-town relatives have gone home, it’s a good time to put up your feet, decompress, and watch some TV. But where to turn? What to watch? If I may, a few humble suggestions about TV
What’s the opposite of a Golden Age? Tin? Aluminum? Plastic? Whatever it is, we are definitely NOT in a golden age of network TV comedy. NBC has just two lame programs, the revived Night Court and something called Lopez vs. Lopez. ABC has Abbott Elementary, which despite critical acclaim, is at best feel-good pablum. The
With Hollywood’s writers and actors still out on strike, and with no resolution in sight, you may be wondering when you’ll be getting new episodes of NCIS: Des Moines or Peoria Fire. Well, even if these shows existed, who really cares? As someone who watches exactly zero network drama series, I frankly don’t care when
In this edition of Under the Radar, I have a miniseries that works, a movie that does not, and a documentary that cleans up the mess left by the movie. The Watergate scandal, which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, forever altered America’s opinion of politics and saddled us with thousands of cheap ‘Scandalgate’
Recommending comedy is always a risky business. A comedy that might leave one person rolling on the floor in a puddle of laughing tears may leave the other person stone cold. But I’m willing to take that risk. I can’t guarantee you’ll find these three recommendations funny, but if you don’t, well, that’s your loss.
The last time we met, I recommended a sweet series called Schmigadoon. Lest you think that I’m just an old softie, this time around I’d like to recommend a couple of hidden gems that are distinctly un-sweet. First, whether you’re a wrestling fan or see the whole sham sport as a sign of the decline
According to a number of sources, the average person spends almost 18 minutes a day trying to figure out what to watch on Netflix. That’s a lot of wasted time, and it doesn’t take into account searching the seemingly bottomless catalogs of Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Crave, Disney, etc. Despite the fact we have reached