Critical Week: I feel pretty

While all eyes continue to be on Los Angeles as the extent of the fire damage becomes even more horrifically clear, the film industry here in London continues relatively as normal. Bafta announced their film awards nominations on Wednesday, the usual expected lists with idiosyncratic touches here and there. And among screenings this week, Michelle Yeoh popped in (on great form) for a lively Q&A at a press screening for Star Trek: Section 31, which spins her Discovery character Philippa Georgiou off for her own action-comedy mayhem. It will be interesting to see how franchise fans take on the film's riotous tone.

BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
I'm Still Here • The Writer
A Complete Unknown
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There was also a late screening of Leigh Whannell's latest reworking of a monster classic: Wolf Man. Stars Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner make the most of the emotional angles in the somewhat thin script, and the grisly suspense will keep fans entertained. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite with Robert Zemeckis for Here, a gimmicky experimental film that places a camera in one place for millions of years. The effects and imagery is impressive, but the mini-melodramas feel arch. From Lithuania, the New York-set drama The Writer features just two actors as they talk over the course of one afternoon, and it's properly gripping stuff, taking on big issues and quietly intimate emotion. Finally there was Charlie Shackleton's Zodiac Killer Project, documenting the film he never got to make. It's witty and inventive, and premieres at Sundance.

This coming week, among the films I'll be watching are Steven Soderbergh's Presence, the Irish drama Four Mothers, the musician doc Luther: Never Too Much and a restored screening of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, which I've never seen projected.

Critical Week: Troubled teens

After a very nice break, screenings have started up in London again, and I've had a couple this week. It's been a gentle start to a new year, with the usual offbeat January releases alongside awards-season gems that are being released this month. My first screening was the comedy-horror Get Away, written by and starring Nick Frost (Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres, pictured, play his kids). It's nutty and gleefully grisly enough to keep fans happy, but is a bit undercooked. Claes Bang stars in a big-scale account of the Swiss legend of William Tell. The settings are gorgeous and the starry cast is terrific, even if it's never hugely involving.

BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
Hard Truths • A Real Pain
The Girl With the Needle
Babygirl • Maria
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From France, the always enjoyable Laure Calamy stars in It's Raining Men, a comedy about a middle-aged woman who tries to spice up her marriage by hooking up with other men. It feels a little simplistic, but is likeable enough. A UK production filmed in India, filmmaker Sandhya Suri's Santosh is a riveting if slightly underpowered procedural thriller with very strong character beats. And the meta-comedy Extremely Unique Dynamic his hilariously packed with layers of gags as it highlights the friendship between filmmakers Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung.

This coming week, among the films I'll be watching are Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31, Julia Garner in Wolf Man, Tom Hanks in Here and the documentaries Changing the Game and Zodiac Killer Project.

Critical Week: Happy holidays

It's been a nice week, hanging out with friends, celebrating the new year and watching very few films. I had a couple more to watch before finalising my lists of the best and worst of 2024, but I didn't go crazy trying to see everything. I'll be catching up on more over the coming weeks, and they'll enter the fray for 2025. The starriest one I watched this week was Joshua Oppenheimer's epic musical The End, with Tilda Swinton, George MacKay and Michael Shannon. It's about a family living underground two decades after society collapsed, and it has a lot to say about several massive topics. Although over two and a half hours it becomes a little numbing. 

BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
Nickel Boys • Nosferatu
We Live in Time
2073 • What I Am Not
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Meanwhile, Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge was a very nice surprise. Despite the blunt title, the film is a nuanced, thoughtful dramatic thriller about a guy whose specialty is de-escalating violence. Aaron Pierre is terrific in the lead role, as is Don Johnson as the backwoods Louisiana police chief running a very dodgy operation. Well worth a look even if the plot is a bit swampy. There were also two acclaimed documentaries: the shattering Sugarcane uses personal stories to skilfully recount stories of child abuse in Catholic schools for indigenous children in Canada. And Grand Theft Hamlet is an inventive, enjoyable film tracing the attempt to stage Shakespeare's play within the murderous virtual world of Grand Theft Auto.

This coming week press screenings will start up again with Claes Bang in William Tell, Nick Frost in Get Away, Laura Calamy in It's Raining Men and the Lithuanian drama The Writer.

A Year in Shadows: Vol 40

And so the 40th year of Shadows on the Wall wraps as another 51 covers have been published over the past year, featuring these films in order: Good Grief, Poor Things, The Holdovers, All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, The Iron Claw, Bob Marley: One Love, Wicked Little Letters, Dune: Part Two, Drive-Away Dolls, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Mothers' Instinct, Io Capitano, Back to Black, The Book of Clarence, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, IF, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Young Woman and the Sea, The Dead Don't Hurt, Inside Out 2, The Bikeriders, Kinds of Kindness, Unicorns, Fly Me to the Moon, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Kneecap, Borderlands, Alien: Romulus, The Substance, Black Dog, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Critic, Transformers One, Megalopolos, Joker: Folie à Deux, We Live in Time, The Wild Robot, Emilia Pérez, Anora, Paddington in Peru, Wicked: Part I, Maria, Nightbitch, Kraven the Hunter, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and Better Man, plus the Oscar cover. Of course, full-sized versions of these covers have been posted here on the blog throughout the year.

Trivia alert!

Appearing on multiple covers this year were Aaron Taylor-Johnson (one solo and one shared), Olivia Colman (2 shared), Ryan Reynolds (2 shared) and Zendaya (2 shared). Two others appeared once as themselves and once as an animated character they voice:  Emily Blunt (unicorn) and Scarlett Johansson (robot).

Getting a cover all to themselves:  Marisa Abela, Amy Adams, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Karla Sofía Gascón, Angelina Jolie, Mikey Madison,Ian McKellan,Jason Patel, Jesse Plemons, Daisy Ridley, Seydou Sarr, LaKeith Stanfield, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jeffrey Wright and Demi Moore, who shares her cover with herself. 

Sharing a cover with costars: Freya Allen, Antonio Banderas, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Hugh Bonneville, Jesse Buckley, Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Jessica Chastain, Jodie Comer, Carrie Coon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Harris Dickinson, Adam Driver, Winston Duke, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Zac Efron, Nathalie Emmanuel, Cynthia Erivo, Mike Faist, Cailey Fleming, Lady Gaga, Andrew Garfield, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Gosling, Mckenna Grace, Ariana Grande, Ariana Greenblatt, Madeleine Harris, Kevin Hart, Anne Hathaway, Chris Hemsworth, Lachy Hulme, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel Joslin, Michael Keaton, Logan Kim, Vicky Krieps, Dan Levy, Paul Mescal, Viggo Mortensen, Emily Mortimer, Florian Munteanu, Ruth Negga, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Celeste O'Connor, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Jenna Ortega, Eddie Peng, Himesh Patel, Glen Powell, Florence Pugh, Margaret Qualley, Anthony Ramos, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Archie Renaux, Ryan Reynolds, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Winona Ryder, Andrew Scott, Dominic Sessa, Stanley Simons, Cailee Spaeny, Emma Stone, Channing Tatum, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hannah Waddingham, Julie Walters, Jeremy Allen White, Finn Wolfhard and Zendaya.

Appearing as an animated character they voiced: Lewis Black (emotion), Emily Blunt (unicorn), Steve Carrell (furball), Kit Connor (goose), Ayo Edebiri (emotion), Adèle Exarchopoulos (emotion), Tony Hale (emotion), Paul Walter Hauser (emotion), Maya Hawke (emotion), Scarlett Johansson (robot), Keegan-Michael Key (robot), Liza Lapira (emotion), Lupita Nyong'o (robot), Pedro Pascal (fox), Amy Poehler (emotion), Reece Shearsmith (gnome), Phyllis Smith (emotion), Owen Teague (ape), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (doll), Ben Whishaw (bear), Ben Whitehead (inventor), Robbie Williams (monkey).

The most crowded covers: Paddington in Peru and Inside Out 2 with 9 each.

And finally, here are three outtake covers that were designed but never used: Kung Fu Panda (which was bumped by the Oscar cover), Broken Bird (which opened FrightFest but was bumped for closing film The Substance) and My Old Ass (bumped by Megalopolis).

The Best of 2024: 44th Shadows Awards

As usual, here's a preview of my annual year-end lists - there is much, perhaps too much more on the site. It's just too hard to draw that line at 10. I saw fewer films in 2024 than in the previous several years, a conscious effort to slow down a bit while still aiming to catch all of the serious contenders. As always, I love movies that catch me off guard and demonstrate the power of cinema...

FAVOURITE FILM

1. 
   Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
2. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
3. A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
4. Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
5. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)
6. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
7. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
8. Anora (Sean Baker)
9. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
10. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

DIRECTOR

1. 
   Luca Guadagnino - Challengers, Queer
2. RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
3. Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
4. Alice Rohrwacher - La Chimera
5. Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
6. Sean Baker - Anora
7. Payal Kapadia - All We Imagine as Light
8. Halina Reijn - Babygirl
9. Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
10. Rose Glass - Love Lies Bleeding

SCREENWRITER

1. 
   Chris Sanders - The Wild Robot
2. Payal Kapadia - All We Imagine as Light
3. Megan Park - My Old Ass
4. Alice Rohrwacher - La Chimera
5. Rich Peppiatt - Kneecap
6. Levan Akin - Crossing
7. Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold - The Brutalist
8. James Mangold, Jay Cocks - A Complete Unknown
9. Sean Baker - Anora
10. Justin Kuritzkes - Challengers, Queer

ACTRESS

1. 
   Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
2. Demi Moore -The Substance
3. Mikey Madison - Anora
4. Mzia Arabuli - Crossing
5. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
6. Soheila Golestani - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
7. Amy Adams - Nightbitch
8. Florence Pugh - We Live in Time, Dune: Part Two
9. Nykiya Adams - Bird
10. Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here

ACTOR

1. 
   Sebastian Stan - A Different Man, The Apprentice
2. Colman Domingo - Sing Sing, Drive-Away Dolls
3. Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two
4. Payman Maadi - Opponent
5. Jesse Plemons - Kinds of Kindness, Civil War
6. Josh O'Connor - Challengers, La Chimera
7. Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
8. Nicholas Hoult - Nosferatu, Juror #2, The Order
9. Andrew Garfield - We Live in Time
10. Hugh Grant - Heretic, Paddington in Peru, Unfrosted

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. 
   Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez
2. Isabella Rossellini - Conclave, La Chimera, Problemista
3. Lesley Manville - Queer
4. Isabelle Huppert - The Crime Is Mine, A Traveller's Needs
5. Margaret Qualley - Kinds of Kindness, The Substance, Drive-Away Dolls
6. Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
7. Guslagie Malanda - The Beast
8. Ilça Moreno Zego - Ama Gloria
9. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
10. Divya Prabha - All We Imagine as Light

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. 
   Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
2. Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown
3. John Magaro - September 5, Day of the Fight
4. Marcel Otete Kabeya - Omen
5. Jonathan Bailey - Wicked: Part I
6. Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
7. Scoot McNairy - Nightbitch, A Complete Unknown, Speak No Evil, The Line
8. Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
9. Yura Borisov - Anora
10. Fred Hechinger - Thelma, Nickel Boys, Gladiator II, Kraven the Hunter

WORST FILM

1. 
   Borderlands (Eli Roth)
2. The Garfield Movie (Mark Dindal)
3. Reagan (Sean McNamara)
4. The Exorcism (Joshua John Miller)
5. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Adam Wingard)
6. Strictly Confidential (Damian Hurley)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Kenji Kamiyama)
8. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah)
9. Cellar Door (Vaughn Stein)
10. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (Mark Molloy)

TV SERIES

1. 
   Somebody Somewhere (Max)
2. Hacks 3 (Max)
3. The Bear 3 (FX)
4. Shogun (Hulu)
5. The Sympathizer (Max)
6. Fargo 5 (FX)
7. Disclaimer (Apple)
8. Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (Max)
9. Ripley (Netflix)
10. Only Murders in the Building 4 (Hulu)

SINGLES

1. 
   APT. - Rosé & Bruno Mars
2. Lose Control - Teddy Swims
3. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
4. A Bar Sony (Tipsy) - Shaboozey
5. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
6. Kiss the Sky - Maren Morris
7. Illusion - Dua Lipa
8. Too Sweet - Hozier
9. Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish
10. Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter

Critical Week: Almost paradise

It's the final week of the year, and I'm enjoying the relative silence of my email inbox these days. I'm using this time to catch up on missed movies for my year-end best/worst lists (coming very soon!). And I've also been watching some mindless television and eating rather too much, as you're supposed to do at this time of year. Of course, some of these movies are coming out over the holidays, or soon thereafter. This includes Los Frikis, a beautifully made true drama from filmmakers Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson (The Peanut Butter Falcon) about a group of young Cubans in the early 1990s who made audacious choices to survive and created a rock-n-roll paradise in the process.

BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
A Complete Unknown
Nosferatu • Better Man
Vengeance Most Fowl • 2073
The Order • Los Frikis
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Kerry Washington stars in the inspirational true drama The Six Triple Eight, about a platoon of Black women who solved an insurmountable problem during WWII. It's over-egged by filmmaker Tyler Perry, but the story is great. Looney Tunes returns to the big screen with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in The Day the Earth Blew Up, a rather too-silly apocalyptic animated slapstick comedy that only has moments of genuine charm. Asif Kapadia's offbeat documentary 2073 is very pointed, but is packed with urgent reporting about the state of the planet right now. And from Thailand, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is a charming, very sentimental comedy about a teen who learns some important lessons while caring for his feisty, dying grandmother.

This coming week I'll be catching up on a few more year-end titles, including the epic musical The End and the acclaimed documentaries Sugarcane and Grand Theft Hamlet. Press screenings won't start up again until 7th January.

Screen: December TV Roundup

This roundup is a few months late, as my autumn was sidetracked in all kinds of directions. I have still managed to watch the odd episode of a series here and there, so I've been slowly getting through things, especially in the run-up to the voting deadline for the Golden Globes TV categories (but it's impossible to see everything). As always, television is my therapy, a chance to relax from the more intense work of watching and reviewing films. Still, it's been great to see cinematic ideas and approaches in series this autumn, most notably in the first one here. Starting with new shows...

Disclaimer
Who would have thought that a pitch-black battle of wits between Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline was what we always wanted on TV? Turns out that was gifted Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, who put together this ripping dramatic thriller about grappling with past decisions and present-day accusations. Offbeat and unexpected, it continually flips the tables on its characters, with powerhouse performances from Blanchett and Kline, plus Sacha Baron Cohen, Leslie Manville and Kodi Smit-McPhee. With unusual nuance, the actors bring out dark themes in ways that are powerfully provocative. (Apple)

A Man on the Inside
Ted Danson reteams with The Good Place creator Michael Schur for this ingeniously designed comedy mystery based on the terrific 2020 Chilean documentary The Mole Agent. Danson is on top form as a man who goes undercover in a San Francisco retirement home to investigate a robbery. Residents are wonderfully played by veterans like Sally Struthers, Margaret Avery, Veronica Cartwright, Susan Ruttan, Stephen McKinley Henderson and John Getz. Cleverly, the show remains consistently funny and astute, while refusing to shy away from some surprisingly moving moments. (Netflix)

The Perfect Couple
A sudsy mystery set around a fabulously wealthy family in Nantucket, this show delights the audience with a series of snaky relationships between relatives. Essentially White Lotus Lite, the writing is never quite as surprising or tricky as it thinks it is, as everything is fairly obvious from the start. But the jagged editing makes sure that there are some great surprises along the way, and terrific scenes for the ensemble of terrific actors led by Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as parents who aren't as oblivious as they seem to be. And the story's messier edges are rather good fun. (Netflix)

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
In this third season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series, the notorious Menendez case provides plenty of juicy tabloid-style nastiness to hold the attention. And the central performances from Nicholas Alexander Chavez and especially Cooper Koch as the troubled siblings make it riveting. Stir in edgy turns from Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny as their (probably) abusive parents, Ari Graynor as their tenacious lawyer and Nathan Lane as too-involved novelist Dominic Dunne. It's a clever look at the questions between the lines, leaving us with a lot to talk about. (Netflix)

Agatha All Along
Kathryn Hahn gets her own Marvel spin-off with this sequel to WandaVision, as the witch Agatha meets a teen (Joe Locke in a nice break from Heartstopper) who holds a very dark secret. As they set off down the Witch's Road with a group of rivals including Aubrey Plaza and Patti LuPone, the plotting becomes a bit knotted and dense, but there's a light sense of humour that keeps the show fizzing along entertainingly. Indeed, the mischievous performances make sure that all of the witchy nonsense isn't as impenetrable as it feels. (Disney)

Kaos
Sunny and sparky, this energetic series puts Greek gods in the modern world, threatening the balance between their encampment on Mount Olympus, the humans on Earth and the residents of the Underworld. First a warning: this is one of those series that sets up something huge, then only delivers it in the final seconds of the final episode, leaving it all hanging on a potential second season, which sadly isn't happening. That said, it's a lot of fun to watch this talented cast play with the material, including Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer, Cliff Curtis, David Thewlis and especially Nabhaan Rizwan. (Netflix)

Time Bandits
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement adapted Terry Gilliam's sublime classic film into this scrappy series, considerably altering the premise to make everything much murkier. Strangely, the characters feel under-written and not particularly funny, especially the roles Waititi and Clement gave themselves (the Supreme Being and Pure Evil). Most surprising is how unsophisticated this feels, like a cheaply made children's TV show. Lisa Kudrow is enjoyable as the leader of a group marauding through time, and others have their moments. But it never quite grabs hold, and won't be back for another season. (Apple)

W E L C O M E   B A C K

Only Murders in the Building: series 4
Hilariously continuing to play with its premise, this series gets more intricate with each season. And this time our trio of podcasters (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) has been pulled into the sphere of a blithely shifty Hollywood producer (Molly Shannon) who wants to make a movie about them starring Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis and Eva Longoria. Cue their hilarious pastiche performances from them and a crowded cast of big-name stars. Through it all, a murder propels them into another messy whodunit that twists and turns with each nutty episode. (Hulu)

Heartstopper: series 3
Things get a bit more intense in this season, as one of the main story threads centres on how Nick (Kit Connor) struggles to help Charlie (Joe Locke) get help to deal with his eating disorder. The issue is never simplified, so it gets genuinely dark along the way, and this adds a shadow over most of the other plotlines as well. So while this more serious edge kind of undermines the show's usual sweetness, it also allows it to grow up a bit and tackle something important and relatable. And the production and performances are terrific as always, with a superb role for Hayley Atwell. (Netflix)

Frasier: series 2
For its second season, this legacy series continues to complicate its inter-relationships, bringing back some favourite characters (most notably Peri Gilpin) while adding some depth to the new ones who have been introduced this time around. At the centre, Kelsey Grammer shines as the oblivious egomaniac shrink with a heart of gold. While Niles' absence is still sorely felt, as is any reference to Frasier's earlier life in Boston, the writing is sharp enough to keep us laughing. And the connections between these people are warm and involving, and funny too. (Paramount)

A N D   S O   I T   E N D S

Somebody Somewhere: series 3
Frankly, this is heaven in a television series, upending all of the usual sitcom cliches to depict the relationships between a group of almost staggeringly real people. At the centre is Bridget Everett's Sam, who still hasn't quite found her place amid her feisty sister (Mary Catherine Garrison) and goofy best friend (Jeff Hiller). So she can't see why a hulking new neighbour (Olafur Darri Olafsson) could like her as much as she likes him. Like a balm for the soul, this show makes you laugh, sigh and cry ugly tears of joy. And it reminds us how important it is to find our people. (Max)

The Umbrella Academy: series 4
For their final season, this makeshift bunch of siblings is trying to get back to their original timeline. Yes, multiverse nonsense abounds, as does yet another reality-ending plot. As tiring as that is, there's enough interest in the characters to keep us watching. They are also well-played by an ensemble that has grown very tight over the run of this series, and over these six rather annoyingly fragmented episodes they get to wrap up their various stories. It also helps to have Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman on hand as the antagonists. (Netflix)

Unstable: series 2
Rob Lowe is back as the nutty tech boss who is still navigating his relationship with his adult son (played by Rob's son John Owen Lowe). The whole show feels a bit too carefully constructed as a wacky workplace sitcom, but there are funny moments along the way, thanks to a cast that isn't afraid to look ridiculous. Both owes are terrific, and their good-natured banter is thoroughly entertaining, especially when augmented by the up-for-it supporting cast. Perhaps with a little more forward momentum, this show might have caught on with viewers and then returned for more. (Netflix)

Elite: series 8
For the last season of this Spanish show set in a prestigious private school, the writers have gone even darker than usual, as almost everyone is now indulging in some sort of criminality, often involving violence that's unusually grim. That said, the storylines are as sexy as always, even if the direction has a new coyness to it that throws the camp soapiness and lurid lustiness out of balance. This means that the actors have to scramble to keep their characters grounded in any sense of reality. But it just about works, and we'll miss this nutty, lusty, grisly mess when it's gone. (Netflix)

Snowpiercer:
series 4
Returning for its final season after a long break, this high-concept futuristic thriller immediately throws logic out the window. A fractured structure never quite makes sense, while characters have jolting personality shifts, most notably Daveed Diggs' leader Layton, who thoughtlessly jeopardises everyone with a personal quest. But then, none of the plot threads serves the characters very well, and the splintered approach keeps anything from gaining momentum, as it were. It's all so choppy, and such a bit let-down after the intelligent first three seasons, that I didn't make it to the end. (AMC)

GUILTY PLEASURES: The Great British Bake-Off, Strictly Come Dancing, Queer Eye, Drag Race (UK, Global All-Stars, Canada vs the World), The Circle, Selling Sunset.

NOW WATCHING (OR INTENDING TO): Squid Game 2, What We Do in the Shadows 6, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, Dexter: Original Sin, Black Doves, The Madness, The Day of the Jackal, Landman, The Sticky, Laid.

COMING SOON: The White Lotus 3, Severance 2, Zero Day, Prime Target, The Traitors 3.

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