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Big Love: Season 1
Another superb series from HBO, in a similar spirit to Six Feet Under, focussing on a family with an ‘odd’ situation but basically just telling the stories of their day to day lives. The family here is...
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Pilot Review: Life Unexpected
The Brief: Fifteen year old Lux is trying to escape the foster care system and go it alone as soon as she hits her birthday in a couple of days. But to do that she needs the signatures of her birth...
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Pilot Review: Parenthood
The Brief: Based on the Steve Martin film of the same name, it’s an ensemble drama featuring the extended Braverman family. I found it impossible to watch this show without at every step comparing it...
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Brothers & Sisters: Season 4
I’ve been quite harsh on a number of shows this year, so it makes a nice change to sit down to review a show and realise that it’s managed to entertain me without fail for 24 episodes and leave me...
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Pilot Review: No Ordinary Family
A ‘regular’ family have grown apart so take a holiday to try to reconnect with each other. Then their plane crashes and they end up in a sparkly lake. They return home and gradually each begin to...
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Brothers & Sisters: Season 5
Five seasons of sappiness was apparently all that the world wanted from Brothers & Sisters. The accountants just didn’t like the balance between the large, expensive cast and the falling ratings,...
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The Big C: Season 2
The Big C is a show that really does defy convention. Each episode is only half an hour long so I automatically tagged it as a comedy, and while it certainly has a good number of laughs in it, there...
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Blue Bloods – Season 2
While you read the following review it’s important to remember that despite the fact that I’m laying into the series, I did watch all 22 episodes. It’s not even that I just caught up on them over the...
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Last Tango in Halifax and The Secret of Crickley Hall – Pilots
I’d not had a great day and I retreated to bed with my laptop to catch up on a couple of new BBC series thanks to the power of the almighty iPlayer. Miraculously, this turned out to be the perfect cure...
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Blue Bloods: Season 3
I’m struggling to think of a single thing to say about this season that isn’t just a repeat of last year. Actually, why bother – here’s what I said last year. First up… nothing happened! Of 22 plots...
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Jane the Virgin: Pilot Review
Jane is saving herself for marriage for various reasons including god, a terrifying grandmother, a mother who got pregnant at 16, and a heartfelt belief in romance. But then she is accidentally...
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Transparent: Season 1
Transparent is basically a family drama. Although the driver of the story is the father’s revelation that he has been hiding the fact that he identifies as a woman, really the series is as much about...
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Grey’s Anatomy: Season 12
I not only had to look up what number season this was, but I had to look up what on earth happened as i’d forgotten most of the details. Broadly speaking I still love Grey’s Anatomy. It’s my first pick...
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American Gothic: Season 1
This is proper escapist television, pretty much completely rubbish, but just absorbing enough to keep you from any risk of thinking about the ironing that needs to be done, or the stupid meeting you...
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Orphan Black: Season 4
This was the penultimate season of Orphan Black and I need to make a mental note to re-watch the series from the beginning as it’s increasingly evident that I’ve no idea what on earth the plot is on...
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Bates Motel: Season 1-3
I’d been meaning to watch this for a while and finally spotted it while rummaging on Netflix. It’s just going into the fifth and final season so I’m pretty late for the party, but at least I’m now...
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Orphan Black: Season 5
I’ve written a lot of superlatives about Orphan Black over the years and it’s been one of the first things I mention whenever asked for recommendations of what to watch. Now that it’s finally...
View ArticleCasual: Seasons 1-3
I powered through three seasons of this in just a couple of weeks. It’s only about 40 episodes in total, and they’re only 1/2 hour, so it’s no big commitment of time. However, it does do a slightly odd...
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The Crown: Seasons 1 and 2
Apparently I never got round to writing a review of The Crown Season 1 when I watched it last year, but that’s ok, because I re-watched it immediately before watching Season 2 so I’ll do them as a...
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 1
I gave this show a try for no particular reasons. I knew it had won awards and praise, but not so much that I felt I absolutely had to watch it, particularly given that no one I knew was actually...
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