In a cultural moment where it feels like every show that’s ever aired is being brought back to life, the reboots and revivals that do work are especially welcome and worthwhile. One particular success story that could just as easily have been a total failure is Bel-Air, a dramatic remake of the popular 1990s sitcom…
Junji Ito in Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, unleashes the genius of a horror anthology on Netflix. The anime series is inspired by the disturbing nightmares of the eponymous mangaka: Junji Itō. In fact, Studio Deen adapts the exquisite original material through twelve episodes, that feature twenty different stories (some episodes condense two tales)….
The increasing prominence of limited series typically represents closed-loop storytelling that is specifically designed to play itself out over the course of a set number of episodes. But those that become truly popular unsurprisingly have network executives and creatives contemplating making more of a hit even if that wasn’t initially part of the plan. Squid Game and Big…
Hirokazu Kore-eda directs his first Netflix series, adapting for the screen the comic that won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award and is a best-seller with over 2.7 million copies sold. The Japanese filmmaker rewrites the manga series by Aiko Koyama, Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san, published by Shogakukan, shaping it into a tender coming-of-age story. The…
Hunters, a fictional series from executive producer Jordan Peele about a group of Nazi hunters operating in New York City in the 1970s, debuted its first season on Prime Video just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A season two renewal took months, and with no news after that for almost two years, it…
There are many reasons people watch television. Airtight, believable storytelling may not be at the top of the list for many, especially for a half-hour comedy series. Those who have made it through the first two seasons of Netflix’s Emily in Paris are well aware of what to expect from this flighty show about an…
The Yellowstone franchise has proved to be a tremendous success, debuting just four years ago on the Paramount Network and quickly becoming its flagship show. Season five is currently in full swing, and its first prequel series, 1883, debuted at this time last year on sister streaming service Paramount+. Now, the Dutton family is once…
Life doesn’t turn out the way we planned it as youngsters and yet every instant turns out to be meaningful. As Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” This concept is beautifully portrayed in the Japanese television series First Love — available on Netflix…
We’ve come to a point that some of today’s most avid movie and TV audiences may not remember or even know what it was like to go to a video rental store. The phrase “Be Kind Rewind” may have no significance whatsoever for those for whom DVDs are a distant memory, though they do still…
In boxing the idiomatic expression to “Toe the line” stands for “getting someone’s act in order,” which is exactly what Hulu’s miniseries Mike does with the controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. This series — based on extensive research of factual accounts, interviews, footage of real-life events — creates a deep and…
It’s hard to deny the cultural impact of Game of Thrones. The HBO series based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by author George R.R. Martin premiered in 2011 and only became more popular as it went on. Its series finale aired more than three years ago, on May 19th, 2019, and…
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