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- CreatorBaran bo OdarJantje FrieseStarsLouis HofmannKaroline EichhornLisa VicariA family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.Netflix’s first original German series, Dark, will inevitably be compared to Stranger Things, but it is much different and well though out. Both series focus on children who have gone missing; both are set, in a dark setting , in the 1980s; both involve unexplained phenomena that cause lights to flicker, among other things; and both reveal a pathways somewhere in a cave that connect to a mysterious facility that’s key to the show’s central mysteries. Than in Dark is becoming totally different as the story goes along.The series tales place in Winden a little town in Germany. There are quiet characters to follows and you will be sucked in as well as addicted as I watched the series.The show opens with a voice-over explaining that “everything is connected,” which turns out to be true of the relationships between the parents and children in four families that are introduced. There are a lot of characters to keep track and you must pay attention because if you blink you will miss something. We meet Jonas (Louis Hofmann), a teenager who has spent time in a mental hospital following his father’s suicide that is the beginning scene , Jonas and several friends go on a late-night expedition into the woods to see if they can recover some drugs that Erik stashed away in a hiding spot, Erick is the one who disappeared at he beginning of the story. They get spooked by going to a cave where you should not go in some kind of nuclear underground stuff, in the process, a friend’s younger brother, Mikkel (Daan Lennard Liebrenz) disappears. The town may not know where Erik is, but we do. Erik is sitting in a chair like an electric chair and you will see someone briefly in the room. You will not know what is going on too much. Town goes searching for Mikkel and now there are two kids missing. He gets weirder from here on out, you will not believe where Mikkel winds up at, and that is all I am going say.
Dark is concerned about atmosphere and suspense with a cliff ending at the end of the series. The series setting is autumn, darkness, rain, and the smell of death is everywhere. It is going to become a chilling classic creepy thriller. Dark is stubble and as the horror element in it even a little bit of neon-noir in there. And yes I think Netflix has a hit on their hand. I can’t wait until next season. - CreatorÁlex PinaStarsÚrsula CorberóÁlvaro MorteItziar ItuñoAn unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.A dude named the professor who is the mastermind of this heist recruits of very peculiar robbers that will assault the Factory of Moneda and Timbre with such precision which could be the perfect robbery in the history of Spain and taking home 2,4 Billon Euros.
This one is so good it is not even funny. Ok the professor is the mastermind who plan every situation so he thinks so far so good as the professor said he does not want to know their names; no personal info about themselves and no personal relation between each other they have to stay focus. They are going to name each other with city names. You have Berlin who the police is looking for him. Tokyo a woman where she did a heist lost her fiancé by gun fire and the police is looking foe her. Moscow on who dig out a tunnel to get in stores to steal furs and diamonds, his son Denver drugs, fights in clubs, Rio who is like Mozart with a computer, know electronics and alarms. The twins Helsinki and Oslo and Nairobi who is perfect at making fake money. She is this perfectionist. There that is the gang they will spent 5 months at planning this heist. But is it going to go as planned and what are the obstacle are going to be facing them. Taking hostages it is not easy not even when there is 67 of them and there are going to be there 60 hours in the first season that is. The cat and mouse of the cops and robbers is like a symphony. 13 episode and you will be addicted plus on your edge of your seat. The actors are top-notch even the chemistry is there, and what a wonderful cast it is. The story is full of twist and surprises and at time it is funny plus there is the suspense and it will kill you. The first season is a joy. And I do love a heist series. Did I mentioned the Dali mask that they wear. - CreatorAndrew SodroskiJim ClementeTony GittelsonStarsGethin AnthonyArliss HowardKelly JenretteAn in-depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.For 17 years an FBI case into a notorious killer in 1995, named the Unabomber, who mails packages containing bombs to people across America which, unsurprisingly, blow up the unsuspecting victims.
There is a fine line between fiction and realty here the discovery channel and Netflix manages to keep it on the dotted line. We follows this talented FBI agent that is trying to understand the language of the Unabomber but his superior are old school and does not want to hear his theory. The investigation in 1995 is a jump forward in time to 1997, it goes back and forth. The show here is trying to do something different from the other series which the narrative is interesting and will keep you on the edge of your seat. Of course you are already familiar with the story you have already seen tin the new however if you are in Europe you might have heard it on some level, in the state we heard it for weeks every time a bomb went off. The acting is outstanding even the cast has great chemistry. A little different in telling the story, and enjoyable to watch. - CreatorJoe PenhallStarsJonathan GroffHolt McCallanyAnna TorvIn the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters.Mindhunter is based on the book of the same name, John E. Douglas’ account of his interviews with serial killers when he was a FBI agent trying to understand the motivations behind their murders. He woke though barrier to get there so everyone in law enforcement could understand how the mind of a serial killer works.
Douglas (Jonathan Groff) a FBI agent a bit head strong who has a partner Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and goes along to interview real killers but at the time they were not called serial killer. The time line here is set in the 70’s. Those two FBI agent are traveling country and even teach the police to figure out a profile of a killer so they can catch them. Once in a while the get in on a case that they solved with the police. The series here feels real with the testimony of those serial killers. It is a series Neo-Noir even the landscape is grippy and shift from time to time as the crime becomes more gruesome. Of course it is a Netflix series of 12 episodes. You will be hooked from the beginning. Both actors here are doing an outstanding job plus the go into their personal life a bit as the episodes goes on. Well written and at times the series goes into dark mode. As a FBI agent told me once it is hard to jungle this kind of job and a family at the same time. You see it in the series. It is like you are living it and you are following the agent while discovering the atrocity that the serial killer describes. Entertaining yes and you want more each time. - CreatorHarry WilliamsJack WilliamsStarsJoanne FroggattIoan GruffuddZoë TapperBritish psychological thriller in which schoolteacher Laura Nielson accuses renowned surgeon Andrew Earlham of rape.After going on a date with surgeon Andrew Earlham schoolteacher Laura Nielson accuses him of rape.
Here is a woman who goes on a date and the next morning is feeling that something is seriously wrong, she has this feeling she has been raped. Later she thinks that Andrew has put in something in her drink than rapped her. Here is a classic she said, he said on this touchy subject which is rape. The viewer has this view of a detective as the story unfold. One little flaw in the series in the third episode you will know who did it. What they should have done is let the story unfold where you will see both characters fight it out sort of speak, the reveal until the very end who did it. At first you go ok who is right and who is lying. On the top on that Laura will uncover secrets of others. The further she digs in the more she is going to piss off Andrew. The police even tells her let us do our job.
The drama is the grippy mystery with Joanne Froggatt is a powerhouse of an actress, while Ioan Gruffudd is superb and fits the bill perfectly well. This amount to some great drama / Crime / thriller with a cool musical score and great cinematography. - CreatorPatrick BenedekClaude ScassoStarsArieh WorthalterBrune RenaultSteve TientcheuAfter a boating accident, woodworker and family man, Florian, wakes up in the body of an officer who leads a task force against illegal body transfers.Awarded at the Mania Series Festival in 2017, the sci-fi series Transfers by Claude Scasso and Patrick Benedek is on Arte the channel in France and I got to see it all six episode and what an imagination. The series is from the German film of the same name directed by Damir Lukacevic in 2010.
In the near future, the transfer of one soul from one body to another has become possible, sparking hopes, fantasies and new trades. Florian (Arieh Worthalter), a father in a coma, wakes up in the body of a policeman, Sylvain, charged with fighting illegal “transfers“. - StarsAlessandro BorghiGiacomo FerraraFilippo NigroIn 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.A Netflix series. There are TV series that start at a high level and keep up the level from start to finish. They are small miracles that spring up to the top, at the highest levels of serial production. But they are rare cases. More often there are highs and lows, between pilot episodes that shoot all the cartridges and remain without anything to say then, you have the series that grow and they keep it interesting . These are the ones that have balls and confidence. When you see the first episode , the first scenes you go damn they control the situation right off the bat. It is the case with Suburra, whose first episode, directed by Michele Placido as the second, goes a step away from the disaster but it saves showing right away those that will then be the best and central aspects of the series inspired by Stefano Sollima’s film, of which Netflix production is a kind of prequel. Nice move.
It is about the gypsies and the mob that fights for the land which politics is going to be into play. The story of tow clan who youngsters want to take over and make their marks. Two will be friend and form an unlikely relationship. The series focusing on the relationship between state, church and crime. In fact, the religious institution is present in a very small, in-depth manner, and politics becomes less important, leaving room for everything else, and that is fine because the rest is a story of criminal families is told by a very good cast. It is very addictive and when the first season is over you will want more. Season 2 please. - CreatorBrian YorkeyStarsDylan MinnetteKatherine LangfordChristian NavarroFollows teenager Clay Jensen, in his quest to uncover the story behind his classmate and crush, Hannah, and her decision to end her life.The series follows teenager Clay Jensen, in his quest to uncover the story behind his classmate and crush, Hannah, and her decision to end her life.
The series from Netflix is based on the young adult novel by Jay Asher 13 reasons why. Before committing suicide Hannah (Katherine Langford) recorded 13 cassettes, each involving a class mate that was somehow responsible to end her life. The tapes are to be listened to in its entirety and then passed along to the next person on the tapes until everyone has heard them. The series focuses on Clay (Dylan Minnette), one of the people on the tapes and how is he going to react to it after hear them.
Here is a series for young adolescent but the adult can watch it as well. It is quit addictive. It has a bit of realism into it like the realities of teenage insecurities and the power people’s words and actions have over others. But the thing it is unlikely that a teenager will do that and leave tapes for everyone to hear. It is a fictional story here. Clay doesn’t listen to all the tapes in one night it does in 13 days one at the time and try to figure out why she ended her life. He is playing detective a bit, and the thing is you want to get to the 13 episodes to see why gives. The series is design well here to keep you interested until the last episode 13. Terrific series here on Netflix. Do not miss it. - CreatorAlice Chegaray-BreugnotGrégoire DemaisonNicolas JeanStarsCarole BouquetFred TestotPascal DemolonA serial killer, nicknamed 'La Mante' decides to collaborate with the police when a string of murders that copycat her style suddenly appear.Jeanne Deber (Carole Bouquet) La mante (a famous serial killer) who terrorized France, has been imprisoned for more than 25 years. When a murder who is identical of the crime scenes of “La Mante”, Commissioner Ferracci (Pascal Demolon) decides to collaborate with Jeanne. However, the latter has only one request: to have as sole interlocutor her son (Fred Testot) that she has not seen since her arrest.
Scary maybe but well writing and directed here is an other series, well here is my problem they said it is a mini-series but there may be a second season so I will let you know as soon as I can. However let’s go back to the series shall we. In the series there is this balance between action and psychology trying to get inside the head of a killer. It is not going to be easy for Damien seen his mother since he is with his new girlfriend who has a kid from a previous relationship. Carole Bouquet does an outstanding job here to play this series killer even though she has played plenty of femme fatale before that. The game between her and her son and the manipulation begins. The fear of not finding the killer in time plus other thing is going to be in play. Here is a refreshing thriller that is nice and works well because of its great cast. - CreatorGeorge PelecanosDavid SimonStarsJames FrancoMaggie GyllenhaalLawrence Gilliard Jr.A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s, when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.The rise of the pornographic industry from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. In the specialty stores, another cinema is sold under the coat. Pornographic movies are made cheaply as fast as they can make them. But soon, all this will change … At the forefront of this cultural revolution, two twin brothers who owns a bar serving as a cover for the local mafia, Vincent and Frankie Martino and Candy, a prostitute in search of freedom, a courageous visionary, listening to the evolutions of his time.
It is New York and two twin brothers here who are working for the mob owning a bar so they can launder their money , their father in the construction business has on foot with mob also, plus the pimps and the hookers that are roaming the streets trying to make a buck. Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an astute prostitute with aspirations, and Marty Hodas (Saul Stein), the real-life King of the Peeps, knowledgeably discussing what could be lucrative. The actual Deuce, is in the area of New York City that was Times Square/42nd Street. The deuce here is the real deal, you fell like you are in the 70’s early 80’s and that you are going a part of something. For those who were there back then it is going to bring back memories. I was there in the late 70’s in the U.S. and it is was the coolest thing back then. The cars, the women, booze, the bar scene the music it has it all. Maggie Gyllenhaal here shines big time she even steal the show, however James Franco who is doing double duty doing an outstanding jobs here of which the casting is near perfect I will even say perfect. I say this to you do not miss this one. The first season consist of 9 episodes of an hour and 1/2. - CreatorBlake CrouchChad HodgeStarsMichelle DockeryJuan Diego BottoTerry KinneyLetty Raines is a thief and con artist whose life is always one wrong turn, one bad decision, from implosion. Which is just how she likes it.Letty Raines ( Michelle Dockery) is a thief and con artist whose life is always one wrong turn on one bad decision after an other. Fresh out of prison, she’s attempting to stay …
Based on the Letty Dobesh series of books by Blake Crouch, the show follows Letty Raines (Dockery), a woman who is out of prison for good behavior. And is she going to stay out of trouble. She has a son who is staying at her mom. She is certain that she can be a good person by not using drugs and drinking too much not to mention stealing. After being fired from her job for stealing which she did not, so she gets into stealing in hotel in rooms of the guest. Well that is how she meets this hit man Xavier. Some how she is drawn to him but can’t seen to go on her own. And the adventure begins.
Terrific series here that works well with a great cast. Letty here tries to be good but can’t help herself because old habit dies hard. Here comes this hit man and she kind of know that they need each other. Later in the series it is reveal how Xavier became a hit man and why he is out of touch with his family for 20 years. The pilot sets up the series but still leaving you intrigued enough to keep you coming back for more. Letty is smart and quick on her feet, but also vulnerable. She is strong and find ways to succeed plus she want to in order to see her son again. Xavier is the same way but has anger issues and wants to get reconciled with his family especially his father. The series is character driven full of twists and turns and Dockery and Botto bring a depth to the series that makes it not just fun, but interesting to watch. - CreatorKim Fupz AakesonStarsMartin BuchEsben DalgaardViktor Lykke ClausenThomas (Martin Buch) and Dion (Esben Dalggård) are two old friends in dire straits trying to open a restaurant.Niklas (9-year-old Viktor Lykke Clausen) wakes up every night to draw the ever more precise contours of a recurring dream: he sees his mother stretched out on the road, overthrown by a driver. An accident that happened two years ago. Since then, the little boy is no longer talking and Thomas (Martin Buch), his father, has sunk into alcohol. Dion (Esben Dalgaard Andersen), a friend of Thomas, gets out of prison, but is expected by the Mafia aka “P’tite Souris” (Nicolas Bro) to whom he owes money …
The story evolves around two friends struggling to get their dream restaurant off the ground. They need money and Dion owes money to the Mafia Don (Petite souris). The thing is that Thomas is mounting his wife and can’t move on plus he is left to raise his son. He was the top sommelier who is dyslexic. Dion owes money to the mob plus got pregnant the female prison guard. It seems to me that trouble finds him every where. The actors are outstanding plus the chemistry in near perfect. It is hilarious at times plus there are detours left and right and a few surprises along the way. There the series feels like a modern western kind of cool. The French however copied it and named it Chef. Yes it is good but the second season of Chef is missing something. Anyway Bankerot means Bankrupt in English. - CreatorJohn HlavinStarsRyan PhillippeShantel VanSantenCynthia Addai-RobinsonA conspiracy thriller that follows the journey of Bob Lee Swagger, a highly-decorated veteran who is coerced back into action to prevent a plot to kill the President.Bob Lee Swagger, a highly-decorated veteran who is coaxed back into action to prevent a plot to kill the President. The series is done as a thriller conspiracy theory.
Now days they are doing series off the film. Ok fine but this time done a little differently I think. You know it is going to be predictable well like the instructor (Character in the series) tells Swagger “what they ask you to help them to figure out where the shooter is going to shoot the president and you didn’t see that one coming? “ exactly I saw that one coming as I watch the series. You damn well know that you have a sniper who is the best at his job, he is secluded for good reason and a man arrives at his home and said that they need for him to figure out if there were a shooter who is going to kill the president where who he take the shot. The thing is you know what is going to happen now you have a series kind of like the Fugitive. Swagger is now framed for the murder of a president and he is on the run.
Yes there are some shady characters in it and you do not who to trust. It is a fine series here but I wish they would make them less predictable I know not easy to do. The writing is fine and the actors has chemistry, and formidable. The series move along at the pace you want it to move no doubt and you are going to be addicted it is on Netflix In Europe. It is entertaining as hell. - CreatorBill DubuqueMark WilliamsStarsJason BatemanLaura LinneySofia HublitzA financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.Ozark, the new neo-noir series that Jason Bateman has directed a couple of episodes on Netflix is kicking some ass here.
Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) who’s best friends put him and his family in a bit aof a pickle has to relocate in Ozark Missouri. You see Marty launders money for the drug dealer named Del (Esai Morales) great choice for a bad guy here. It seems that Marty best friend here has taken over a certain period of time 8 Million dollars which pissed off Del. In order to save his own ass Marty made him a deal to relocate to Ozark and to continue to launder Del’s money. So far so good. But once in Ozark Marty is going to walk on someone’s feet.
Marty here has this sex less marriage and has two kids. He has an investment firm which is laundering the money of their drug lord. Marty is awesome at his job. Yes the series at first tries to settle but by the third episode shit is hitting the fan big time and does it takes off. The series is constant does not follow any time line and it is brilliant, and so I love it. The all characters are a joy to watch even they have great chemistry. Voila a must see and have fun. You will be hooked as I was. - CreatorSilvana AguirreCarlos ContrerasStarsMarco de la OHumberto BustoDiego VásquezA look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power during the '90s as the head of the Sinaloa Cartel and his ultimate downfall in 2016.Too funny I heard on the news that El Chapo escape from prison but way later he got caught again and escape from prison once again in Mexico where he was detain. And now Netflix has done a story about his life. The most dangerous drug dealer from the Cartel family and the one who can escape jail .
You see El Chapo want to rise in power as fast as possible and he is not a patient man. But unfortunately he gets shafted left and right at times. You see the Mexican government has to call the military to try to caught those drug dealers because sometimes the police is too corrupt and they need help. The first season is about El Chapo personal quest of becoming the most powerful drug dealer. You will find out that it is not easy to be a drug dealer seeing the life of El Chapo who sometimes gets in trouble and over his head. However there is a couple of people who want him behind bars. It is not going to be as good an Narcos but it will come close. You will be addicted to it, and wanting more. It is on Netflix streaming so have fun with it. - CreatorLeonardo FasoliStefano BisesRoberto SavianoStarsSalvatore EspositoMarco D'AmoreIvana LotitoCiro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.Here is the second season of Gomorra the season that has a feel like the sopranos combine with the wire a little bit anyway. The second season start where the first left off. But this time Genny Savastano (Salvatore Esposito) who escape injuries and is somewhere in south America making sure that the production of the drugs is the best that is ever been. However his father is in jail. His mother tries to run things back home. In the means time Ciro di Marzio (Marco D’Amore) is obsessed with being the godfather of the clan and yes it is going to cost him. He will stop at nothing to get there.
The second season step it up and it is who con who , who gets killed and yes it is a cut throat business. violence is shocking only in its brutality, because some of it is not predictable and will hit you in the face. the cool moments in season two take place between Gennaro and the withdrawn Don Pietro. it is going tot be old school vs new school ( the young one) who is going to be left standing? Gomorrah’s straightforward cinematic style allows its Neapolitan style that grows and envelop the gangsters that move through it. do not miss this one. I watch all 12 episodes in 3 days. - CreatorHamid HliouaStarsKate MoranChristophe PaouYasin HouichaWhen a huge marijuana shipment falls prey to thieves, the aftermath touches players from all ranks on the drug trade between Morocco and Europe.Here is a cool series Franco German on the Arte channel. It is what you expect and more. It is shot in Spain, Morocco, and France. It is the drug trade of those 3 countries. The dealers are dealing and everything is fine when a drug boat does not come back for his delivery. The main drug dealer the boss is looking for their dude who possibly took the marijuana and left. did he really do that? If so where is he now?
There are a few surprises in this one by far. It is the cut throat business who gets killed in order to move up and never trust no one. One dealer wants to go straight and grow strawberries, the others are in the lure of easy money. One woman is trying to rise in power but wants to get out, but get drag back in. She quickly going to become in power we will see the second season. There is blackmail and stealing the drugs from the boss. It is a tight group that can’t be trusted and they have look behind them constantly in order to survive and not get shot. The first season it too cool and things are moving along just fine. There if you get the chance to see that one have fun with it. - CreatorM.A. FortinJoshua John MillerStarsAlice BragaHemky MaderaPeter GadiotTeresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Some how she found herself in Texas doing drug deals left and right. On to become the queen of the biggest empire in Texas so she can avenge her lover’s death.
After her lover ’s death Theresa tries to warn her friend that her husband is going to be killed for skimming drugs and money which he was doing with Theresa ’s lover. Theresa flees on to the US to find herself in this gas station which the owner phoned the ex-wife of her lover’s boss named Camila Vargas ( Veronica Falcòn) who is in Texas and has a drug empire. . Theresa gets pick up and in order to stay a live she runs drug for her. However Camila wants something from Theresa a book that her lover got her and Camila wants the book before her husband finds Theresa and the book.
Theresa know she has to keep the book in order to stay alive. She however wants to learn the business she has needs and wants to get a piece of the pie. Also she is trying to get her friend settle once she is in America. Theresa will stop at nothing to get to the top. Veronica Falcon as Camila Vargas is extremely talented as well as Alice Braga. Camilla here dresses well has the legs and the cleavage men are turned on by her she got them by the balls and turn on their brains so they can be on the same level as her, she is manipulative as hell. She seems to get what she wants. Here is a terrific series by Netflix that should not be over looked. - CreatorRonan BennettStarsAshley WaltersKanoJasmine JobsonTwo London drug dealers ply their lucrative trade at a public housing estate in East London.A thriving but underground drugs business is being run by Dushane (‘Ashley Walters’) and his friend Sully (Kane Robinson) to become the richest men on the block.
Here is a cool totally great 2 parts series of 4 episodes. What I like about it is fast paced and has a bit a realism into it. It is about a local gang to want to get rich, they want to move up the latter as fast as they can and in the drug business you either die young if you are no careful enough, or if you careful enough you can retire rich. But the thing is here and the real world being a drug dealer has a short life to begin with.
A good kid (aka a top boy) who stays out of trouble but whose kindly actions result in criminality, a local gangster who hopes to become a top crime-lord but who must reconcile personal ethics, friendship and morality with a violent career path, a reformed criminal whose ethical behaviour gets him killed etc. Dushane here is this bottom drug dealer who manages his gang but wants to get into the big leagues. He want to get rich. Top boy here has his mother in the hospital for depression and he leaves now on his own. A friends who works at the hospital makes sure he is ok. Top boy here has been friend with this young lady who is trying to make money by growing cannabis so she can buy the flat. All those characters are going to cross each other. It is a cut throat business as we know it. A cool series that won’t disappoint you. - CreatorEric RochantStarsMathieu KassovitzFlorence Loiret CailleJonathan ZaccaïA very unique and captivating series about the "bureau des légendes", the mythical powerhouse within the French Secret Service and its dare devil ghost agents.Four months have passed within the DGSE. Guillaume Debailly (alias Malotru), promoted to deputy director of the Bureau des Légendes, became a double agent on behalf of the CIA. Under cover of psychoanalysis sessions, he delivers to the doctor, his contact agent at the CIA, the information he gathered weekly. In exchange, Malotru expects the Americans to release the woman he loves, Nadia, imprisoned by the Syrians somewhere in the world. On the other hand, as Loiseau starts her delicate and dangerous underground mission in Iran, the DGSE is confronted with a new crisis: a jihad, now an officer of Daech, publicly harasses France in a bloodthirsty way.
The first season of the Bureau des Légendes had seduced us last year by its authenticity, its realism and the inclination of Eric Rochant to continue to dig further into the universe of espionage and intelligence that ” He has known so well since his films Les Patriotes and Möbius. The first season however took place in Paris When Malotru comes back in Paris. Eric introduce us with the characters and such. The stories are purely fictional but of what is going on today. The second season however is that the agents on the field. Nadia who trained to be an agent is going to be in Iran to work in a company well that is her cover. The talented Sara Giraudeau assumes the role beautifully well here as wells the other actors Camille de Castelnau, Cécile Ducrocq, Hippolyte Girardot, Raphael Chevènement, Antonin Martin. The narrative intersect with intelligence, participating in the immersion in this new season which is proving exciting. These new episodes embrace, moreover, the actuality with a realism that will put a chill thought your back, taking as background the narratives evoking both the Syrian conflict and the Islamic radicalism. Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Pierre Darroussin recover their characters with greediness and engage in this duel of cat and the mouse game, the two actors seeming to savour their acting by bringing more nuances to their characters that one might have thought immovable. Over all a terrific second season that went up a notch big time and yes there is a season 3. Season 3 will be the final chapter like a trilogies than Rochant I think is going to put new character for season 4 that will start a new chapter. - CreatorClaudio CorbucciStarsMiriam LeoneMatteo MartariThomas TrabacchiDetective Valeria Ferro investigates crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice.Inspector Valeria Ferro ( Miriam Leone) works at the PJ in Turin. stubborn , beautiful and tough, she is assisted by Andrea Russo (Matteo Martari), veteran Gerardo Mattei and new recruit Luca Rinaldi (Luca Terracciano) under the direction of Giorgio Lombardi ( Thomas Trabacchi). As her investigations progress, we also discover the difficult past of the investigator.
The series is also known under the name of Squadra Criminale. It is a terrific Italian series where Valeria Ferro is this tough detective who wants to solve the case as family as possible even check out all the possibilities before closing the case but every time she does an investigation her boss tells her to close it quickly or go easy on the victim they are not suspect. Her partner in crime issuing with the flow, he knows that he is the second wheel on this, he tend to follow her league but sometimes enough is enough and her boss has the final say. As the series goes along you discover that her mother is in jail. As the story goes along you discover more about her and the difficult relationship that she has with her mother. Overall it is a terrific series. - CreatorJarl Emsell LarsenStarsAxel BøyumAnneke von der LippeOdin WaageTwo 15 year old boys secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy took the publishing industry by storm and everything since then the Nordic noir is in business. Eyewitness is something slightly different, merging crime thriller and family drama.
When Philip (Axel Bøyum) and Henning (Odin Waage) witness a multiple-murder they stay quiet, fearing for their lives, normal reaction for teenagers. Philip has his foster-mother who is the officer leading the investigation, Helen Sikkeland (Anneke von der Lippe). When the SRO are drafted in to deal with a drugs war involving The Sixers and a biker band called The Ferrymen, Sikkeland begins to see connections. However, without evidence and the gun that they can’t find she is at a halt and struggle to make progress.
Here is a terrific Nordic Noir as I love them with some terrific actors and story telling. Henning, an alpha male motocross champion, seems more terrified by his family to discover who he is really. In keeping quiet Philip to protects him but messes up his already complicated relationship with his foster family. Thank god for trying to avoid the clichés. The performances of the actors are strong with some great sensitive writing to go with it. The Norwegian / Swedish nine series has 6 episodes that are dark and tense. - CreatorMathieu MissoffeStarsSuliane BrahimHubert DelattreLaurent CapellutoA police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.Villefranche is a small isolated town in the heart of a gigantic forest, a green labyrinth of thousands of hectares making any telecommunication hazardous. This place is not quite like the others has its unmapped areas, its crimes, its disappearances and other mysteries to be elucidated and a rate of homicide six times higher than the national average … but apart from it all everything is fine. , The city can count on its sheriff, Major Laurène Weiss (Suliane Brahim), a girl of the strong country in mouth and strangely connected to Nature. As she continues to investigate, she sinks farther and farther into the forest she discover secrets even some from her own adduction 20 years ago.
Viilefranche is a fictional town somewhere in Belgium. It has 8 episodes and it is a French Belgian series. The filming took places in between the Voges and Belgium. So you can feel the fog, the nature and the thousand of acres of forest, it is a perfect setting for this kind of series. It is dark, intriguing and mysterious and when you watch it the story will have some twist and turns that you won’t expect. Well casted and written which I can’t wait for season 2 to come out. I just finished watching the last episodes this week and what great ending which you are going to want more. Do not miss this one. - CreatorDamon LindelofTom PerrottaStarsJustin TherouxAmy BrennemanChristopher EcclestonThree years after the disappearance of 2% of the global human population, a group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.This spooky series where a 140 millions people just vanished off the earth like babies, lawyers, drunks, thieves, surgeons, murderers, grandmothers, bartenders, celebrities and even the pope. Where did they go?
Three years after 2 percent of the world’s population disappeared, a lots of people believe it was an act of God, but nobody has any answers. Some churches close, and new cults form, including one called Guilty Remnant, whose followers wear white, take a vow of silence and chain smoke. Too funny there why I am not surprise and what is up the chain-smoking they have nothing to look forward to ,so why not catch cancer. Most survivors just try to get back to normal, but some how the cult will not let them forget.
“The Leftovers” has an intriguing premise that is intelligently and well presented. There are a lot of series with fantasy theme here those days and I think that is where we are going . But is France going to follow the trend most of the time it does not happen. Well will see. there is something that is unexplained in this series but maybe by second season we’ll know more. well do not miss this one. - CreatorAnnette HessStarsSonja GerhardtClaudia MichelsenMaria EhrichGenerations clash when the feisty daughter of a dance studio owner defies her mother's wishes and embraces the fight for gender equality in 1950s Berlin.The story is set in Berlin in the year 1956 and tells us about a dance teacher and her 3 daughters. And yes there is a little bit of everything here in this dysfunctional family. Homosexuality, happy and unhappy relationship, motherhood, a father that disappear after the war, an underground dancing contest.
From the beginning it never lets up. This series is flying with a strict cold-hearted mother that wants here daughters married to wealthy men. She will stop at nothing plus she has a dancing studio where she is stuck in old fashion mode and does not want to teach Rock-N-Roll dancing. Here is a lesson in modernisation if I ever saw one. The wall is not up yet but you begin to see that Germany is separated in two east and west. It is the whole question of the modernity with the rapid transformations of a society that are imposed on to Caterina Schöllack, a mother with authority , who alone raises her three daughters to be ready for marriage. And yes there will be one who will rebel against her mother the youngest one Monika. It is the time of Elvis Presley and of James Dean here plus a lot of Rock-n-Roll came out and a lot of modern invention as well. Thing are moving fast in Berlin where the war is forgotten. The series explore the modern world that is going to emerge, with a family who has their own problems in the middle of it of which the mother is going to have trouble adjusting to it. A terrific series here from Germany that is worth looking at. - CreatorMichael D. FullerGraham GordyStarsLogan Marshall-GreenJodi BalfourDamon HerrimanQuarry, a disillusioned Vietnam War vet, returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny at every step. A mysterious man known only as The Broker gives him an offer he can't refuse - to work for him as a hitman.Cinemax here has done it again "Quarry” is torrid pulp storytelling and sweaty with original flavour, and yes it is fun as hell.
Quarry is the nickname of the story’s antihero, who just returned from Vietnam named Mac Conway (Logan Marshall-Green) who was implicated in a My Lai-like massacre. Spit on by protesters at the Memphis airport, rejected by his father and unable to find a job, he somehow finds himself working as a hit man for a mysterious boss called the Broker (Peter Mullan). The series is based on a series of novels by Max Allan Collins. The director Greg Yaitanes’s artfully composed Southern landscapes to go with the violence and his characters. The series gets just a little while to get started and then let the sex, gunfight, fist fight, couples fighting and bullet flying begin. The series fits the bill with PTSD-themed, post-Vietnam crime dramas and does it works here. It is well written as well as the costume with the cars and the scenery are as near perfect as it can be. And yes there is an explosive ending where you are going to say what the f–k! awesome. Is there an other season I do not know if there is please let me know. - CreatorSanne NuyensBert Van DaelNathalie BasteynsStarsLynn Van RoyenGene BervoetsInge PaulussenA young woman wakes to discover her own murder on her hands. Struggling to get help and solve the case from five locals who are somehow involved with the night of her death, she uncovers so much more.Here from Belgium on the Dutch side a fantastic realistic thriller series. A hotel room under renovation and a girl who is in a blood bath in a bathtub. Someone knock on the door and she disappears. Later her body is found by the lake. She soon realise while solving her own murder that 5 people can see her.
Terrific series here where the tile is the name of the hotel. Beau Séjour is the collective creation of Sanne Nuyens, Bert Van Dael, Kaat Beels, Nathalie Basteyns, the two last one being also the directors of the episodes. Kato is a ghost, but of a very special type: five people can see her, communicate with her … and even more, Her alcoholic father, a policeman who does not hesitate to eliminate evidence, his half-sister Sofia, devoured by jealousy, Ines, a friend who rounds off his end of the month by hard drug trafficking and Charlie, a Another friend just out of a psychiatric asylum. But the police investigation is the main part of the plot with the elimination, one after the other, of people wrongly suspected. Secrets will emerge left and right. It has been rewritten as almost the same style as the film named Six sense , where the ghost is trying to solve her own murder. In order to make it sinister the series was shot in the winter to reinforced the landscape that got with the theme of the series. The rumors that circulate on a season 2, in the form of an anthology with another story and other characters, have not yet been denied, nor confirmed. I ham hoping for a second season. - CreatorRoberto Aguirre-SacasaStarsLili ReinhartCamila MendesCole SprouseWhile navigating the troubled waters of romance, school and family, Archie and his gang become entangled in dark Riverdale mysteries.In a small town life is almost perfect at Riverdale until a teenager disappears plus Riverdale has a facade well a little strange even weird but wholesome to a certain extant.
Here is the new high school noir from the Archie comic books franchise. It is steamy, weird a little gossip in there as well as wholesome notes much but it is there it fells like twin peaks. The familiar characters are back, as are landmarks like Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe. On the inside the town fells like this squeaky clean that is hiding decay, corruption and secrets.
Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines), who disappeared while going out in the woods with his girl twin sister Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch). Archie (K. J. Apa) — an aspiring musician with six-pack abs — witnessed a key bit of evidence but can’t talk because of the circumstances (see the series). Ms. Grundy (Sarah Habel), now a sultry knockout. Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), the super hot rich girl, is coming from Manhattan whose father is in jail for fraud. Kevin Keller (Casey Cott), a gay student. Well you have at least to put in the gay student now days it is the hip thing to do. Then you have the mayor, the principal and the girl group Josie and the Pussycats which I love the great name for an all African-American band. The malt shop is still in business, but the drive-in is closing down. If you have not guess yet the story has been reinvented. It has also a feel of blue velvet here as well. It is fine series here especially for teenagers who will talk about it after school or on their cell phone or social networks. The all thing works here to the costume, the design, even the casting stand out. Have fun with this one and enjoy it for what it is . - CreatorScott BuckStarsFinn JonesJessica HenwickJessica StroupA young man is bestowed with incredible martial arts skills and a mystical force known as the Iron Fist.Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who returns to New York City despite being presumed dead for 15 years after a plane carrying him and his parents crashed in the Himalayas. The young Rand is the only survivor who was adopted by monks from a mystical dimension called K’un-Lun, where he was trained in martial arts.
So when we meet him he tries to return in the corporate world where his father left off because the plane crash. If you ever seen Arrows the same thing almost his boat sank, the lost of his father and the daughter. Olivier was on an island got trained and came back with the list of his father of people he should out to jail. There are similarities here. Og course here Danny has learned new sills like martial arts. The thing is that the it is missing something here it is not moving as well as the others. But it is watchable. But they have to speed it up on the second season here or otherwise it is going to sink. Danny here does not want the money but wants to reconcile with the family that he has left. Plus he wants to teach others. He is trying to make friends but it is not going to be easy. The other cast members works well here. Well we are going to see it holds for next year. - CreatorDavid GuggenheimStarsKiefer SutherlandAdan CantoItalia RicciA low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession.During the annual State of the Union speech, one member of the administration is chosen to stay behind at a safe location in case an attack wipes out the rest of the government. This has never happened so the writers said to themselves what if?
Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) is the outgoing Secretary of Housing and Urban Development but disaster strikes, Tom is quickly sworn in as leader of the states and yes there are people who thinks he can do the job others not so much. Seth Wright (Kal Penn), a speech writer that does not think the new guy has what it takes. Nor do any of the military leaders and is understandable here the military people wants to find out who did this to the country and strike but the new guy thinks we should make sure who did this then strike. So there is going to be conflict here. Yes it is an intelligent script here and works well. Tom here is not military he wants the people who did that behind bars but he has to make sure who did it. He is the brain of this investigation, the military the muscle. The thing is the show is moving a little quickly I am not sure if it is a good idea but it is still watchable. the cast however is just fine Natascha McElhone as Tom’s wife, Alex, Italia Ricci as Tom’s aide, Emily, Adan Canto as the new president’s, well, tutor seems appropriate though isn’t entirely accurate, Aaron, LaMonica Garrett as a Secret Service agent, Mike, and Maggie Q as an FBI agent, Hannah. voila have fun. - StarsMegumi ToyoguchiDaisuke NamikawaBrad SwaileA Japanese businessman, captured by modern-day pirates, is written off and left for dead by his company. Tired of the corporate life, he opts to stick with the mercenaries that kidnapped him, becoming part of their gang.A Japanese businessman, captured by modern-day pirates, is written off and left for dead by his company. Pissed off and tired of the corporate world he sicks with the pirates that kidnap him to become one of them.
Here is definitely an animation that is filled with action and explosions. there are plenty of gun action in this one. Plus boat chase, scuba diving, more gun action. The pirates here are the cool under dog here big time. Revi here is the girl in this gang who loves guns and action, Rock on the other hand is being kidnap and is a little mellow and start up to warm up to Revi who does not want to do anything with him. And yes they even have the guy who stays in the back and takes care of the computers and such. Plenty of action in this one but I ma told that the company that made this series stop selling it over seas. So there is only 2 season so far of 12 episodes. Well I am going to have fun with this one anyway. - StarsAlba Gaïa BellugiOulaya AmamraLéa RougeronThe fate of Manon, 15 years, before her final judgment, after trying to stab her mother. During six months, the life of the adolescent, locked up in a specialized center, can switch to the encounters.Manon is a 15-year-old teenager rebellious against everything. She is sent to a closed educational centre after stabbing her mother with a knife. She has six months to rehabilitate herself and think about her future.
Here is a terrific series that should of lasted only 3 episodes because it was rewarded with a Fipa award and the rating was there on the channel Arte there will be a second season. And yes it is a joy to see such a great series from France succeed in creating such a quality series.
Here is a Manon (Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi) who stab her mother who is a little too loving if you know what I mean., well you think she is a little strange. Manon get to go to a rehabilitation centre which she has 6 months to get rehabilitate. Once she gets there she is trying to control her anger but she can’t help it, she react violently. She find comfort in this woman who is the cook there. But there is something there with Manon and her mom something is not healthy and Manon most of the time does not want to talk to her on the phone. Marina Foîs here does an out standing job here to play Manon’s mom . she is a little disturbing. Manon tries to get it together but is she going to succeed? - StarsAlex DimitriadesMirrah FoulkesRahel RomahnThe Principal is set in a notoriously violent and difficult Australian high school. Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of Boxdale Boys High because of his different and radical approach to reform.Here is a great TV series from Australia that is worth seeing. It is a bit of a complex story here which involves muslin kids at school. The old way is not working and the kids are miss treated. The boys in the school are almost all traumatized by violence and some of them don’t make it out alive. Every years there is one or two that died. There are in territory ghetto where the drug dealers are king and deals in school.
Enter Principal Bashir who comes from an all girls school as a teacher now is a step up as the principal and yes he has his own issues to deal with , don’t we all. The opening scene show us a murder happening we do not even know who did what and who is the victim then we jump to 2 weeks before. When the principal comes in the school he did not get the welcome he was hoping for. He has a new way of getting the kids around respect them they will respect you. But is not an easy task because the teacher here does not know how to teach and to react toward the kids. But slowly they will come around. The police on the other hand are trying to solve the murder. Well acted and written in only 4 episodes , do not miss this one. - CreatorRobert KirkmanStarsPatrick FugitPhilip GlenisterWrenn SchmidtA young man searches for answers as to why he's been suffering from supernatural possessions his entire life.Robert Kirkman is the horror story-teller and has proven it with the walking dead the series that I love and so well written here. So now Kirkman here is second comic series The Outcast delivers the horror fans loves so much.
Kyle Barnes (Patrick Fugit) was abused as a child and has been plagued by demons ever since.They destroyed his mother (Julia Crockett) and his marriage. Now Kyle comes back to the house of his childhood in the same down that the demons killed his marriage his wife thought he was hurting his daughter. Now Kyle can not go near her daughter but he feels he has to protect her. And what is this evil force that is going to get him?
His sister, Megan (Wrenn Schmidt) brings him groceries and attempts to engage him, even as her husband, Mark (David Denman) does not trust him around his niece. Reverend Anderson (Philip Glenister) his helping him exorcise his demons. Of course there is a police chief in the mix to stir things up.is something is going on in the town and the reverend and Kyle are going to find out well that hell is going to break loose. Then series works here with a cliff hanger at he end of season one. - StarsJulia RagnarssonKjell BergqvistCecilia NilssonA student at the Police Academy is tasked to study a cold case: the murder of a pregnant woman on a Swedish beach 25 years ago.In the summer of 2015 a young Stockholm police academy student, Olivia Rönning (Julia Ragnarsson), is giving this assessment of investigating a 15 year-old unsolved murder. a pregnant woman who was murdered on the beach on Nordkoster Island, and was subsequently drowned by the incoming tide. She comes to find out that it is a case that her father did not solve before he died.
Olivia is this student that is going to put her nose where he does not belong well you have too if you investigate a case but the professor told her look at it and the evidence of this case but do not try to solve it. the more she dig in and is going to investigate people are getting nervous and who are those people? It is going to cause her problems and even almost her life but Olivia will find out something about herself where is it going to be a shock.
To start it off the series get going with a bunch of murders of the homeless people where teenagers are filming while the other beat the shit out of him or her and puts it on the internet. The police however can not trace it. As the investigation goes on they find out that one of the homeless guy is an ex-cop with his help they have finally on a piste to go on to catch those bastards it is connected to underground fighting and in the mix there is a woman turn call girl who has tried to take care of her son. The further Olivia gets in the more she discovers. Here is a Swedish series that is kicking ass big time well written and you think you are going to figure it out it will take a turn here and there. Julia Ragnarsson here does an amazing job here. she had a small roll on the terrific series Bron/Broen (The bridge) which the US has remade of the same title. A series of 10 episodes. I might add a terrific ending as well. - CreatorRob BlackiePeter BlackieStarsJason MomoaLandon LiboironZoe BoyleFollows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.This Series is the adventure following the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. The series takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights or death, and where delicate relations between Native tribes and Europeans can spark conflicts.
This one you can watch it on Netflix. But the thing is here is how rough and tough was the fur trade business where others will cheat you, steal from you or even kill you plus the fact that one man wants to monopolise it. Young Irish-born Michael Smyth (Landon Liboiron) tries to steal gunpowder off a fur trade vessel headed overseas to the northern wilds well he hides in the ship and ends up in Canada. His best friend is killed, his girl (Lyla Porter-Follows) is tossed in jail. Benton (Alun Armstrong) who is the captain on the ship has this idea to sent Micheal to this ruthless fur trader Declan Harp (Jason Momoa) to see who is next move, in return he gets his girl out of jail.
There are subplots here that works well the series is still watchable but I think it is missing something. The episodes are full of tension, intrigue, and sure enough there are cliffhangers. I love the female characters here that are strong-willed, tough, intelligent and trying to get trough the day into this man’s world. Back then the women had to be to stand on their own. Not bad for a first season here let’s see if there is an other. - CreatorRich CohenMick JaggerMartin ScorseseStarsBobby CannavalePaul Ben-VictorP.J. ByrneRichie Finestra, a shrewd record executive from New York, tries to promote American Century, his music label, amidst the changing music scene in the 1970s.Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) , an exec trying to sell his struggling company. Married to Devon (Olivia Wilde), Richie seems ready to get away from the catastrophe. His business is taking a dive so his is marriage. Using cocaine, drinking, women, and parties Richie is also trying to find the next big thing. But is he going to find it?
Now there is a great cast in their one big time Ray Romano , Max Casella, P.J. Byrne , and Juno Temple . Dam here we go. You get to be introduced to the characters and little by little young said to yourself damn! this was the 70’s and yes it is taking place in the 70’s but there is a twist later a few episode later Richie accepts help well you know from who after all it is a Scorsese series. At first you see Richie who love Devon and trying to do right by her but he is struggling for it, you begin to see who is really Richie. It is a monstrous paradox Vinyl and you will be as addicted after the two first episode. It is a wild ride and the costume and design of the 70’s here is dead on. Dam I remember those good old days. Party, muscle cars, and great women. Scorsese has done great here recreating those time but unfortunately HBO has decided to pull the plug only 10 episodes and that is it. Have fun. - CreatorCharlie BrookerStarsWunmi MosakuMonica DolanDaniel LapaineFeaturing stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world.NOSEDIVE: In a distant future where people rate each other through their daily social interactions, we follows a young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) trying to move into an upper-class neighbourhood. she must secure a high-ranking and a friend’s wedding seems like the perfect occasion to up her social status. But unfortunately , not everything goes according to plan. It is like the network that we have now but friends has to like you in order to be popular. I thought they were going to go somewhere dark with it but the episode turned out to be funny.
PLAYTEST: An adventurous backpacker (Wyatt Russell) signs up to test an experimental virtual reality game. While the technology starts off as fun, it eventually it goes into this horror trip from hell. Actually it is my favourite one. Nightmarish imagery is employed to scare the viewer and a few moments. It was a bit predictable here but hey! what isn’t those days. I knew how it was going to end. Maybe it should end differently. well c’est la vie.
SHUT UP AND DANCE: Here is the coolest one of them all . Anteenager (Alex Lawther) is blackmailed after the hackers record him through his webcam. In order to keep an embarrassing video off the internet, the teenager goes through with their increasingly strange demands. Great performance by the actors here. What I like they think they are done and the hackers keeps demanding stranger demands. The ending is just right there they nailed it. So cool.
SAN JUNIPERO: In 1987, (Mackenzie Davis) meets an outgoing party girl (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in a strange town. However, things aren’t exactly what they seem and a timeless romance soon blossoms between them. They keep meeting in different time and you think they are time travellers. They try to look for each other every time the switch world. I do love this on as well do to the fact this one is the romantic one and become a bit twisted.
MAN AGAINST FIRE: After his first battle a soldier with an elusive enemy A soldier becomes experiencing unfamiliar sensation and strange technical glitches. I do love this one where they will be a twist in there they even ended it just right. This soldier goes in battle to fight the enemy but he comes back he has some vision and glitches that will question him of what is going on here. When he does well he superior gives him an alternative and the end I did not expect here it is so good.
HATED IN THE NATION: A journalist (Elizabeth Berrington) is brutally murdered, two detectives (Kelly Macdonald, Faye Marsay) investigate a series of homicides that are linked to social media. Unfortunately, the case is complex and things are out of control. So far season 3 seems to deliver some great episodes. I can’t wait until season 4. - CreatorChad HodgeStarsSiobhan Fallon HoganToby JonesShannyn SossamonA Secret Service agent goes to Wayward Pines, Idaho in search of two federal agents who have gone missing in the bucolic town. He soon learns that he might never get out of Wayward Pines alive.It’s a 10-episode thriller based on a series of novels by Blake Crouch it has an edge of Twin Peaks but is not as imaginative and the series works.
Ethan (Matt Dillon) is on assignment in Idaho, investigating the disappearance of two other agents, when he has a car accident and awakens in a suspiciously empty and creepy hospital in Wayward Pines. The only person he sees there is Nurse Pam (Ms. Leo) and it feels like she is nurse Rachet fencing at that. When he makes it outside the town it is clear to him that something is going on. The phones are not in working order, everybody is strange and makes strange remarks, and the Sheriff Pope (Mr. Howard) well like ice cream that is all he eats plus he won’t give him too much information. Ethan tries to call his superior and his family but can’t get though. He gets to dig around a little more and find out…….
Ok it is a little bit predictable here and it seems that you already saw that but it is still entertaining and has some sense into it. As humans we are going to have arguments and we are going to turn against each other but the ending is just right. What I would you for the second season is getting the creativity going let’s make a 360. I hope they do otherwise well you know. - CreatorTony AyresLouise FoxStarsPatrick BrammallEmma BoothSean KeenanSeven people return from the dead with no memory and attempt to unveil what brought them to the grave in the first place.Ok you have the French series the returned which the Americans copied but the Australian has their own version but totally different with new elements in the story. So far so good.
Glitch is set in a small Australian town where one night, people start crawling out of their graves. A policeman, James Hayes (Patrick Brammall), finds them and does not know what to make of it. But then he finds his wife Kate (Emma Booth) . She died a few years back after a battle with breast cancer. It becomes apparent that these people are definitely something different. There some similarities between the two series which I am not going to get in because I do not want to give any away. The biggest drama comes from Hayes and his former wife Kate. After her death, James fell in love with Kate’s best friend Sarah (Emily Barclay), and they are expecting a child any moment. The thing is here this series will surprise you at every turn. Who are those people and why did they come back. Maybe the came back to finish some unfinished business. Some even say an act of god. James is trying to keep everything under control and contained but shit hits the fan at every turn. Not easy task to do when most of all he wants to protect his wife Sarah. Can they sent them back? This Australian series has only 6 episode on Netflix in France anyway. With a great cliff hanger at the end paving the way for the second season which I can’t wait. Have fun. - CreatorTom KapinosStarsTom EllisLauren GermanKevin AlejandroLucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.Comic book-based TV shows are becoming so common those days I have review more than a few. It is in fashion it seems and people can’t get enough. It’s based on the DC/Vertigo series from the ’90s.
Lucifer Morningstar ( Tom Ellis ) needs a vacation so he decided to take off for L.A. When we meet him, he’s moved to Los Angeles and opened a nightclub .The ruler of Hell has come to Earth to solve crimes on a weekly basis. He gets hooked up sort with a detective who also happens to be a single mother to the world’s most adorable kid. There are the usual flippant jokes, but our anti-hero who has a darker more sexual edge also goes to a shrink don’t ask. It seems that Lucifer has the ability to charm any girls he wants except the detective. Plus he is going through some changes well no you are going to have to see the series. Plus, humans can’t help but spill their deepest, darkest secrets to him. This makes the solving of crimes ridiculously easy. There is twist and turn and it is so enjoyable to see. One down fall it is on Fox therefore no nudity or cursing. Well I enjoyed this show with a bottle of whiskey. Sin away if you dare. It is a sinful guilty pleasure hot as hell of a series. - CreatorFanny HerreroStarsCamille CottinThibault de MontalembertGrégory MontelFrench serial about the lives and jobs of people working at a talent agency in Paris.The accurate translation here is 10 percent that what is an agent gets from the actor. Inspired by the experience of Dominique Besnehard, a great agent representing many French actors, the series “Dix pourcents” plunges us into the universe of the agency AKS.
The agents Mathias (Thibault de Montalembert), Gabriel (Grégory Montel), Andréa (Camille Cotin) and Arlette (Liliane Rovère) give themselves body and soul to represent their actors and also to incidentally touch … 10% of their cachet. Following the sudden death of Samuel, founder of ASK, the agents and their assistants try to manage the agency as well as possible. and yes the Guest stars are : Cécile de France, Françoise Fabian, Joey Starr, Laura Smet and Nathalie Baye (playing mother and daughter) and more. Ten percent is a successful French series; Funny dialogues filled with humor, caricatured characters and an ironic look at this facet of the film industry. They include desperate, vain or capricious actors and actresses , tortured filmmakers and outdated and relentless agents. This monstrous little world of the agency ASK, where the “big ones” of this world are found finally seems to be transformed into a place where simple humans coexist. The self-mockery with which Ten percent builds his story and his characters is probably his greatest strength and intelligence. And if the 6 episodes made you want more laughter and glamor, a second season is about to be written. Would you believe that most actors the guest stars were hard to find due to the fact they did not want to play themselves. The series delivers from beginning to end and it is not even boring, It is on Netflix video streaming. - CreatorSam CatlinEvan GoldbergSeth RogenStarsDominic CooperJoe GilgunRuth NeggaAfter a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire and his ex to find God.Preacher is enigmatic and crazy nuts , a richly-crafted series that perfectly brings the near-unfilm able graphic novel series to life, thanks to Seth Rogen and company. It took nearly a decade to make and worth the wait plus they had the right vision for it.
Preacher brings a small Texas town to life as you could have never imagined, and takes its time to develop the colourful characters whose future journeys you’ll be addicted to follow. Dominic Cooper is perfectly cast as Preacher Jesse Custer, whose crisis of faith and is possessed by a supernatural ‘blessing’ provides the backbone to the first season. Well he comes with partner in crime, the lovable Irish vampire Cassidy (Misfit’s Joseph Gilgun who mails his role to a T, and Ruth Negga’s tough childhood sweetheart Tulip. Of course you must have in there somewhere Jackie Earle Haley an interesting antagonist.
The first season the characters will be introduced to you and will pave the way to the next season. The series does a good job adapting the look of the comic. It is dirty and dry and almost feels like a modern western , and the characters look like the characters that they are adapting. It is a bit hard to nail down but it is a fun ride plus it has humour in it. It has 10 episodes and wow what a series. I know they nailed it thank god. Have fun. - CreatorZal BatmanglijBrit MarlingStarsBrit MarlingJason IsaacsScott WilsonHaving gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Prairie returns home, now in her twenties with her sight restored. While many believe she is a miracle, others worry that she could be dangerous.The OA centres around a woman we’re introduced to as she jumps off a bridge. The woman (Brit Marling), who initially refers to herself only as The OA, is to be Prairie Johnson, who went missing almost 8 years ago. She has strange scars on her back, doesn’t want to talk to anyone, and isn’t blind anymore. As she tries to readjust to life, she enlists some neighbourhood kids, and one teacher, to listen to her story over the course of several nights and theoretically help her… with something.
Here is surprised the new big thing on Netflix. It is this brilliant series, mystery like that is going to be addictive. It has the same feel like the other Netflix series Stranger things even the intensity of it. Amazingly as you watch the episodes you want to see the other immediately. The acting is and even the cast is perfect here. The OA is far from formulaic. With the first season only containing eight episodes you will most likely turn off your Netflix device feeling that you watched sixteen episodes. You have to pay attention here there is information that you can not miss or other wise you are not going to understand what is going on. There will be a lot of question after you watched the first episode. It looks like Netflix is reinventing television. Wait until the last 15 minutes of the last episode. I can’t wait until next season. - CreatorJonathan NolanStarsJim CaviezelTaraji P. HensonKevin ChapmanAn ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mystery.You are being watched. The government has a secret system; a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people. People like you. Crimes the government considered irrelevant. They wouldn’t act… so I decided I would. But I needed a partner. Someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You will never find us. But, victim or perpetrator, if your number’s up, we’ll find you.
The mastermind behind the secret government surveillance tech is wealthy recluse Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), and his machine doesn’t just see everything, it has predictive capabilities too. His partner is John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a highly skilled CIA field agent who, despite his best attempts, has a difficult time uncovering information about his new boss, Mr. Finch. Finch monitors the machine and analyses its data feeds, you see the machine though in a number and a crime is about to commit the number is the social security of someone who might be in trouble and he or she needs help. Reese handles the heavy lifting, relying on his training and expertise to get the job done. Their efforts attract the attention of the New York City police — detectives single mother Joss Carter (Taraji P. Henson) and Finch’s man-inside-the-NYPD, Lionel Fusco (Kevin Chapman) — a potential threat Finch and Reese use to their advantage.
Here is a cool little series kind set in today where Finch has the machine that can predict when a crime is gone to be committed. The series takes off just fine. Caviezel who plays Reese here is enigmatic and has a tortured soul. Person of interest is a break out series here as original as it gets. It is an intelligent action-packed audience pleaser. I was hooked on it for 5 years and that is a good run for a series plus later in the years to come there will be different characters that is going to pop in and out. U fortunately it ended this years on a note of 16 episode only. - CreatorNic PizzolattoIssa LópezStarsVince VaughnColin FarrellRachel McAdamsAnthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) is detective who is dealing with the after effects of the long ago rape of his ex-wife, a rape which may or may not have resulted in the conception of a little boy Ray has always claimed as his own, but for whom he now needs to fight to gain custody or even visitation rights.
Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) is a Ventura County Sheriff Sergeant who also has some family dysfunctions, including a sister who is working in the porn industry and her father in some kind of religious cult. Motorcycle cop Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) is the third leg , a stand up guy who is dealing with a perhaps hard past as a veteran and does not seems to shake it off his shoulder.
Ray has a history with Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn), a former criminal who has been attempting to go straight, Yeah that will be the day. When Frank’s partner, Vinci City Manager Ben Caspere, turns up dead (and mutilated), the project is threatened while the three different police converge on various point of the murder investigation surrounding Caspere.
I think there is a lot of bullshit going on where some people had is that it is not connected to season one , let’s say like Fargo or American Horror story. Plus the story telling did pan out, but to me it is still good, ok not as good as the first one, fine but the second season works well here. The one problem is that the character of Vince Vaughn did not have too much great dialogue might of you might even considered the series a little slow. I found it watchable but it needed a little more detective work other that it is fine. Will there be a season 3 well they are trying to get a great script for the third season. God knows when this will be. I hope they do. - CreatorStephen Adly GuirgisBaz LuhrmannStarsJustice SmithShameik MooreHerizen F. GuardiolaA ragtag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s.This series is on Netflix and it is a comprehensive look at the art form’s true origins and an authentic evocation of late-’70s New York, that caldron of burning buildings, bankruptcy, cocaine and revolutionary forms of popular music.
The first episode is 90 minutes to introduce the characters, the colors are bright and glossy, the camerawork fluid, the editing smooth, the cast works well here. You through in the corrupt official, the gangster fighting over turf , the drugs trafficking, two teenager in love, disco at its best and rap music plus a grand master thrown in the mix. It does not avoid the clichés but who cares just have a good time with it. It is like Romeo and Juliette, Le Moulin Rouge, and West Side Story combine into one.
Giancarlo Esposito and Jimmy Smits play brothers, an indignant fire-and-brimstone preacher and a wearily corrupt local politician. Lillias White who owns the cotton club and is this major drug dealer. Smith and Shameik Moore are fine, in the roles of in the lead roles of Ezekiel and Shaolin Fantastic, the nascent M.C. and D.J. whose combustible relationship forms the show’s primary plotline. The best thing in many scenes is the comic relief provided by Skylan Brooks and Tremaine Brown Jr. as brothers who serve as a protective posse for Ezekiel. The series has six episode. It does remind me all those show black show in the 70’s . - CreatorAnna Bache-WiigSiv Rajendram EliassenStarsNicolai Cleve BrochLena EndreHenrik RafaelsenAfter having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.Coup de Coeur for the Norwegian series Acquitted by Siv Rajendram Eliassen and Anna Bache-Wiig. In the vein of these dark series and of very high quality coming from the North, Acquitted is an unexpected story that will have some twist and turn but at the end will reveal an exploding ending.
Twenty years after being acquitted of a murder, Aksel (Nilsen) Borgen (interpreted by Nicolai Cleve Broch), who had exiled in Asia where he made a fortune, returns to his hometown for business …
In 2013, the American channel broadcasts the series Rectify by Ray McKinnon whose starting point is the return home, 19 years later, of a former condemned to death who was released thanks to new evidence. In 2015, the Norwegians Siv Rajendram Eliassen and Anna Bache-Wiig do the same with this Aksel Borgen and question the reintegration of a man acquitted by the justice but whose innocence is not necessarily recognized by his community d ‘origin. But is he really innocent? Technically they rewrote the story and made it their own, nothing wrong with that. This uncertainty will create tension in the community over the 10 episodes of 45 minutes of the first season.
Aksel Borgen returns to his area twenty years later to save a bankrupt company and to avoid the consequences on the rest of the city. This surprise return does not happen smoothly. Between rejections, physical violence and even fresh reunion with his family, everything does not go as planned. He is not expected as a saviour by everyone and will face in particular the fierce opposition of the mother of the child for the murder of which he had been condemned. The beauty of this series the tension will rise slowly to the point it is going to blow at the last episode. Keep in mind and pay attention to the photography here that is so beautiful and yes Norway is a beautiful country. And yes there is a second season enjoy. - CreatorDaniel AbrahamMark FergusTy FranckStarsSteven StraitDominique TipperWes ChathamThe disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist links the lives of Ceres detective, accidental ship captain and U.N. politician. Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the greatest conspiracy.A couple of hundred years into the future, humanity is spread out throughout the solar system and divided into 3 opposing forces who are on the brink of an all out war for political power and resources well like water and such which is harvested in the form of asteroid ice. The 3 fractions consist of the two superpowers Earth and Mars; the third-party are the “belters”, which is basically everyone unfortunate enough to be living on poor planet well they are the bottom of the barrel. Many belters are represented by the “Outer Planets Alliance” which is a radical group demanding more autonomy and fairer distribution of resources for the inhabitants of the asteroid belt, but are considered terrorist. The belters are miss treated and are given ration of water and food to survive.
Here it is series from Sci-fi that is kicking some ass for the Sci-fi fans it is from a book from by James S. A. Corey . There are here three different protagonists: a high-ranking U.N. official on Earth named Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo); a belter police detective named Miller (Thomas Jane) whose story starts on Ceres; and a young executive officer named Holden (Steven Strait) working on an ice freighter in space. There is Three stories that are connected to each other . In terms of special effect it is perfect as far as I can tell it feels like a Neo-Noir Sci-fi here well worth the effort of watching it. It is well paced with some talented actors the fits in to this thrilling, mysterious tale of adventure and discovery. - StarsOscar IsaacNatalie PaulCarla QuevedoNick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.David Simon has an incredible ability to tell stories populated with real people. Show Me a Hero, explores the long struggle of Yonkers, New York to comply with a court order to desegregate its public housing. Seven years over six episodes, the miniseries follows the city hall politics and politicians while also introducing viewers to the lives of the people they govern. This includes the residents of the existing public high-rises and those who live on the side of town where new housing will be built. The thing is this actually happen in the late 80’s in Yonkers. And may the side-show begins.
Nick Wasicsko, (oscar Issac) a city council member who rises to mayor through his opposition to the Federal judge’s ruling. His election as the youngest mayor in the country (28 years old) is a trying experience as he must comply with the ruling, angering the community that put him in power, or face bankrupting the city through a series of increasing fines. the early episodes you will fall the political dynamics of city hall and the fervour held by opponents of desegregation. Yes there is scenes of backroom drama is the lives of community members most affected by the housing. plus we will follow the lives of 4 families that lives in the housing project and Nick Wasiscko’s home life. I loved in the states so I know how the politics works over there I am learning how it is working in my country well because I kind of forgot. But the politicians and the people are frustrating with a tension that is rising fast enough. This is a terrific series from HBO Quality TV here and David Simon has done it again.
The cast is perfect here the great Oscar Isaac as Mayor Wasicsko and Carla Queveda as his wife, Nae, the city council opposition is led most vocally by Alfred Molina’s Hank Spallone. Saverio Guerra as city manager and Catherine Keener as an east side resident, LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s performance as a home health aid who is losing her sight due to her diabetes, and Paul Haggis has directed all of six episodes. Do not miss this one. - CreatorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonIn a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.Trapped has found audiences across the world, its storytelling is so gripping that each and every episode leaves you waiting for more answers. It’s a crime mystery with tough characters, tense sequences and a stunning look.
It is an Icelandic series and yes you will follow Andri Olafsson (Olafur Darri Olafsson), a chief of police who is now working in Seyoisfjorour as a ferry from Denmark comes in and a body surfaces in the harbour. People from the town and off the boat are under scrutiny as Andri and his two officers try to identify the murderer, but a storm’s arrival leaves them all trapped.
It first start in an abandoned building where two young people where in when suddenly the building catch fire and one them gets out alive. The next scene is in the present and when Andri tells the passages of the ferry that he has to stay in port until they interrogated everyone on board it does not seat well with the captain. And so is the tension rises also they have to try to solve this before the snow storm comes in. As they try to investigate they find themselves in danger. It is 10 episodes with some breath-taking scenery of this cold arctic land. Television is changing it looks like there are more quality series that is being created and the writing is outstanding. Finally we are going somewhere. The atmosphere in this story is chilling and cold. I so love the fact that they shot this one in the winter when it was snowing it gives it authenticity. Trapped gets you in and never let go. - CreatorChristopher CantwellChristopher C. RogersStarsLee PaceScoot McNairyMackenzie DavisFollows some players in the 80s technological revolution that lead to information society.Set in the 1980s, this series tells the story of the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations will change the world.
Halt and Catch fire brings back memories big time. At the time in the 80’s I saw it all happens HP, IBM, Apple, Texas instrument, even Radio shack, got on the band wagon to invent the PC. But not an ordinary PC, the one that is going to stand out. The series takes place in Texas where IBM at the time ruled the world.
Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), is a former IBM sales executive who has talked his way into a small tech company to enlist a software specialist to help him covertly reverse-engineer an IBM PC. It is fictional, but based on the real tech boom of the early 1980s, when companies like Texas Instruments, SCP and Compaq were battling to come up with their own PC, I even remember the Tandy 1000 back then sold at radio shack. Reverse engineering may have seemed daring back then, but now it carries a certain stigma. Some call it piracy others espionage. Here is Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a once-promising engineer who burned out when his computer design flopped. Gordon is depressed, drinking heavily and ignoring his wife and two daughters when Joe recruits him for his project. Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a rebellious computer science student who is smart, with a sassy attitude. The smarter of them all I think is Gordon’s wife who is an engineer but works as a secretary in this company. There are romances that is going to flourish as well as back stabbing get your dagger out there is going toe a battle to be won. Terrific series here that is addictive as hell I finished the first season in 2 days. - StarsMax BeesleyJohn SimmPhilip GlenisterFollows the reunion of four old sixth form friends. They head to Spain to visit the fifth member of the gang, but things take a dark turn.Four friends, Woody (Max Beesley), Quinn (Philip Glenister) , Baxter ( John Simm), and Rick (Marc Warren) arrive in Majorca (is the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean) to visit their old mate Alvo (Ben Chaplin) , who is now a wealthy property tycoon enjoying the fruit of his labor.
This is the British series I know that the American has remade it but I am not going to see it. I saw it once plus they are going to change a few things in it as they always do. I prefer to see the original. Here is a bunch of friends who are invited to this Alvo’s mansion. It seems that Alvo here has done well for himself. Each of his friends that he has not seen in a long time has their own problem and looking at Alvo they think he has everything and want a part of that. Also invites them to eat on him as well as at the disco to live it up a bit. But as they come back from partying things are getting darker like murder. What are they going to do?
This series is moving along like a slow burning cooker that is ready to explode which is a good thing you can feel the sun through your screen. The tension between the character is going to grow. Yelling adding to confusion and what are they going to do next is not going to be an easy task here to top it all off. It is shot in they beautiful location. What I like about British series is that it is character driven and they are doing well here. But the thing is that the US has made the remake. They always copy on each other instead of rewriting the story into something different. The actors here are on the top of their games no doubt even the chemistry is there. over all once you watch an episode you will be hooked and want more. - CreatorMartin GeroStarsSullivan StapletonJaimie AlexanderAudrey EsparzaJane Doe is found in Times Square with no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body.A woman wakes in a duffel bag in the middle of time square New York, and she is cover with tattoos to top it all off she does not remember her name or where she came from.
Here is a scene that is an attention getter, it’s a variation on a puzzle series, where the plot are with clues that slowly unveiled, but what a variation. This puzzle is etched on a human being as a form of tattoos. Jane Doe, a woman who has been tattooed from head to toe and whose memory has been chemically obliterated. Jaimie Alexander who plays Jane who is this vulnerable who man who can kick some serious ass. Weller and the rest of the investigative team at the FBI soon realize that the tattoos are instruction or clues. Here is a series that does not pull punches it has action, and mysteries and as the series advances it begins to unravel more about Jane. The real question with any solve-the-puzzle series is whether there is going to be a rewarding payoff at some point or whether the show is just going to be a series of clues that lead only to more clues. “One thing’s for sure,” Weller says. “Someone likes playing games, and this is just the beginning. "You will have to watch it like the rest of us to find out more about it. - CreatorHagai LeviSarah TreemStarsDominic WestRuth WilsonMaura TierneyA struggling novelist and a young waitress strike up an extramarital relationship that promises to forever change the course of their lives.Noah Solloway (Dominic West) is a public school teacher, happily married to his college sweetheart Helen (Maura Tierney). Every year, they and their 4 children leave their suburban New York home to spend the summer in Long Island with Helen’s rich parents. They stop at a local diner, where Alison Bailey (Ruth Wilson) has been a waitress since she finished school. She is married to Cole (Joshua Jackson), who is from a local and owned a family ranch. Something clicks between Noah and Alison, although their recollection differs in interesting ways.
Those recollection are a bunch of flashback as they are interviewed by a detective and here is the part I like you do not know why yet. These recollection are different first you will have Noah’s and then Allison’s. As the story goes on you will know a little more. Here is what I like the story takes turn and an other it will never cease to amaze you. It is extremely well written as well as acted. The theme is about the affair and human relationship, family issues and particularly marriage on a deep level. Characters that are deeply flawed and you are uncomfortable watching them. Ruth Wilson won the Golden Globe for Best Actress and the series has won for best series. There you have it if you are not watching this yet get on the band wagon. - CreatorSam EsmailStarsRami MalekChristian SlaterCarly ChaikinElliot, a brilliant but unstable cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global chaos when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation his company is paid to protect.The lonely, alienated computer whiz is the hero and his solitary battle against, among other things, corporate greed and corruption is at the core of the show. (He also hates debt of all kinds — credit card, third world and college.) By day, Elliot works as a programmer at a cybersecurity company whose major client is E Corp; it’s a job that he found through a childhood friend, Angela (Portia Doubleday). Elliot has a thing for Angela, but she has a handsome, normal boyfriend, Ollie (Ben Rappaport), who’s favourite line is “I don’t need this kind of negativity in my life.” In his off hours, Elliot has some hobbies, like hacking into and searching the emails and caches of strangers and even his friends. He meets this guy a self proclaimed hacker who has a plan to hack and make the big corporations well all businesses drop to their knees into a financial melt down a self proclaim anarchist hackers (led by Christian Slater) who want to recruit Elliot to their cause.
You see Elliot coulee crazy and at the same time could be the saner dude in the room. Mr. Robot is either a gripping high-tech thriller or a gripping psychological drama. The brilliant thing is you are not quite sure. Elliot here has this problem with morphine although he uses it in low dosage. Like every hackers paranoia plays a big role here, he thinks he is follows and he si careful enough to leave no trace when he hacks but then again. We spent a good portion of the show in his head. The show has a dark social complex commentary hidden into a rich layer of high tech mambo jumbo. Do not miss this one. Here in France we are going to get to see the second season already which is unusual and that is fine with me. - CreatorCheo Hodari CokerStarsMike ColterSimone MissickTheo RossiWhen a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must confront his past and fight a battle for the heart of his city.Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix there was a character names Luke Cage. Well you also knew that it was going to be series. You should anyway our superhero brooding and tender, shackled by the memory of his dead wife and enraged when he discovered the truth of her fate. Just because he had unbreakable skin didn’t mean that his heart couldn’t split in two. The series uses film noir ambience and rhythms to set itself apart from the usual action-oriented superhero adaptations which I like a good move there it put me right in the mood. The series takes place in Harlem it’s the steady drumbeat of visual and spoken references to Harlem’s history and culture. So you are going to love it or hate it depending on your taste.
Of course there is a corrupt politician’s self-serving development plan is called the New Harlem Renaissance. it is a comic-book adaptation about a reluctant hero taking on gangsters and crooked politicians. And our hero here is black and had impenetrable skin even bullet can’t hurt him. There's plenty to like about Luke Cage, including the gorgeous Harlem locations and lively performances by musicians like Raphael Saadiq, Charles Bradley and Jidenna. Coker’s surrounded Colter with a stellar supporting cast, Ali and Woodard give extra dimension to their complex antagonists, and Simone Missick is a welcome discovery as Misty Knight, a detective who acts as both Luke’s love interest and foil. Frank Whaley who I love plays the partner of Knight and as always he shines here. I do hope there will be an other season because I am addicted to this series already. - CreatorMatt DufferRoss DufferStarsMillie Bobby BrownFinn WolfhardWinona RyderWhen a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.This series come across like Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Firestarter and Watchers. Ho yes it is the 80’s again all over and it is the most addictive show so far.
Set in a small, Midwestern town during the mid-1980s, “Stranger Things” is a group of 12-year-old nerds who band together to play Dungeons & Dragons (yes I remember those days) and run their mid-school’s A/V club. Will suddenly goes missing, however, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) wants to look for him. What they find instead around the nearby woods, is a mysterious young girl named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) somehow linked to a secret government facility hidden on the border of the town. Meanwhile, Will’s divorced and mentally unstable mother (’80s kid Winona Ryder) starts going nuts , believing that her son is trying to communicate with her from the other side. Also, there appears to be some scary, thing running around kidnapping people. Throw in some well-meaning but clueless adults, a couple of older teenagers on a romantic collision course and an evil government scientists (Matthew Modine), and you’ve got the coolest ’80s mini-series ever made.
They manipulated a few things here and voila. And yes there is a lot of newcomer here who has done an outstanding job for the first time doing a series. The thing is its take you back in time and it is fun to watch. Even Ryder who is loosing it and wants her son back is on the verge of a nervous breakdown has a perfect performance here. Have fun with that one. - StarsNatalia TenaIwan RheonJamie DravenThe government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.The story is set in a nameless city, where photo-journalist Jennifer (Natalia Tena) is investigating a mysterious explosion that occurred one New Year’s Eve. We start in the night in question and go from there. There is a quarantine and two side the infected side and the clean side. Plus as one boy says to the reporter “you have seen it haven’t you? “ and yes there is more than meets the eyes here. What was that explosion? with a little investigation they realized that is something there underneath the surface but what is it. Terrific series here from Netflix I hope there is a second season. This one here is only 3 episodes of 45 minutes. It would kind of sucks if it would stop here it leaves so many unanswered questions and would be frustrating for the viewer.
- CreatorPhilippe HaïmStarsPatrick RidremontOlivier ChantreauEmmanuelle MeyssignacA police investigator is dealing with a life threatening illness, while trying to map out the spreading of a new synthetic drug that's all the rage in Paris.diagnose of a degenerative neurological disease, Michel Ferrero who is a cop, learns he has only six months to live. Suspended for hitting a colleague, he decided to risk it all out by infiltrating a Parisian network of distribution of hard drugs. His motivation is further enhanced when his 17-year-old daughter, Clara, was hospitalized after an overdose.
Here is a great series of only 3 episode of 45 minutes. Do not confuse this one with the one by the BBC called In Deep (2001 – 2003). Here Haïm who is the creator, writer, director and even compose the music for it. This series is a series noir, very noir it is shot in black and white with some impressive diving camera work, some in slow motion, some not. Immersion adds a neat and tightly structured script and an editing which links sequences smoothly. Surrealism calls repeatedly with hallucinations that grips Michel Ferrero. a great casting to top it all off with Patrick Ridremont dans le rôle principal, Emmanuelle Meyssignac, Olivier Chantreau et Pénélope-Rose Lévêque. Do not miss this one it is on Netflix. - CreatorMaurissa TancharoenJed WhedonJoss WhedonStarsClark GreggMing-Na WenBrett DaltonThe missions of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who travel around the world on a souped-up plane protecting the rest of the humans from super natural threats. The team is led by Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). Yes, that Agent Coulson. Also on the team are Agents Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), two top-notch agents at fighting and tactics. Then there are Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), two super smart scientists. And then there’s Skye (Chloe Bennett), a hacker with an unknown past the team meets in the first episode who Coulson invites along and proves to provide a little help as well as cause some problems plus she is a little suspicious the rest of the team has a hard time trusting her.Well, there are the people found dead in the forest with nothing around them. There’s a bus that starts floating. Simmons contacts an alien virus well you get the point. At first I looked at it, it has its flaws but it stands out has I have kept watching. You see all the films from the comics books are connected so is the series. Well done here. Every weeks there are a super hero who finds out that he has power and does not know the full capacity of their powers. And the agents has to find them first before an other bad mama who has a serum who does wonder or not sort of speaks. Overall the series is entertaining and fun to watch.
- StarsAtli Rafn SigurðssonBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonHeida ReedThe Cliff is a dramatic mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths, set against the backdrop of a controversial hydroelectric project. From Walter Presents, in Icelandic with English subtitles.Bjorn, one of the bankers who ruined many investors and led the country to bankruptcy in 2008, was found dead in his villa. It looks like a suicide and was quickly dismissed by Helgi Runarsson, investigator sent Reykjavik, and Greta, the local young policewoman who assists. Soon after, a girl and her father disappeared. Are the two related cases?
The lava filed murder follows the genre codes Nordic Black. Like its Scandinavian colleagues, Helgi Runarsson is haunted by the ghosts of his past, the death of an eight year old son and the trauma suffered in the home in which he was placed in his childhood. The characters encountered in the course of the investigation – a paedophile, drug traffickers, corrupt financiers, a worrying motorcycle gang … – help to maintain the creepy and desperate atmosphere. The raw at it purest form landscapes, and the sinister lava field that gave the title to the series. Here is a well structured script who stats slow than accelerate towards the end with a climatic ending. - CreatorTeodora MarkovaGeorgi IvanovStarsIvaylo ZaharievZachary BaharovVladimir PenevTrained young policeman goes undercover in the gang of the most dangerous mafia boss in Bulgaria.The specially trained agent Martin has been appointed to the most dangerous mission in Bulgaria – to go undercover in the gang of the mafia boss Djaro. On his way he has to encounter a lot of challenges and goes into a rigorous training in oder to become an undercover agent. His boss knows and only knows that he is going to go undercover just in case the mob boss has a cop under his pay roll. He tries to infiltrate the mob. His task becomes more complicated when he meets the big boss’s girl Sunny. While undercover he gets a promotion in the mafia hierarchy and becomes part of the world go their world of violence and corruption.
Undercover is a modern crime series which realistically depicts the reality of the underground world in Bulgaria. Although it is a fictional series however the plot contains a number of real events happening in the modern life that cover the pages of newspapers like drug market redistribution, forgery, gun shots in the city centre, corruption schemes, bank robberies you name it is there. It is a great series here with the police and the mob plays cat and mouse game one tying to catch the other. Martin escape more than a few time and you will be on the edge of your seat every time. It is a realistic as it can be. The first season along deals with Martin integrated in the mob he has to deal with the boss’s girlfriend plus there are a mole on both side. And no one in the police department knows who he is, in an other word the big boss does not know that he is undercover only one guy know the one who is in charge in catching Djaro. Terrific series from Bulgaria on Netflix. - CreatorLena DunhamStarsLena DunhamAllison WilliamsJemima KirkeA comedy about the experiences of a group of girls in their early 20s.Dunham plays recent college graduate Hannah, who has an unpaid internship at a publishing house and is trying to finish a book of essays. She is told by her college professor parents that they’ve supported her long enough and are cutting her off. She tries asking for a salary from the book company, only to find out how little she’s really worth. She is now unemployed. Various job interviews go nowhere, including a promising meeting that crashes and burns when she makes a joke about date rape to the man interviewing her.
From there on it is becoming more real life-like. Hannah has a best friend Marnie (Allison Williams), in a long-standing, uninspiring relationship with Charlie (Christopher Abbott), British jet-setter-in-training Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and almost annoyingly sunny Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet). She also hooks up with her sort-of boyfriend, acting hopeful Adam (Adam Driver), who’s more interested in physical connections than the emotional one. It looks like to me like well almost like the other series Sex in the city but there it is about 20 something girls who wants to take on the world and make something of themselves trying to figure what life wants from them all that in New York plus struggling truing to stay afloat. There is much more provocative and close to real life. Yes there is sex, boyfriends, whatever girls go through in their 20’s and even has humour. it has the creative guts to realign it for a new century and a new generation. - CreatorHans RosenfeldtNicola LarderStarsAnna FrielRay PanthakiJack DoolanMarcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.Marcella is a Detective Sergeant who worked on the unsolved case of a serial killer before taking a ten-year hiatus to raise a family. But all that she get a divorce from her husband, So she return to be a detective to find a murder case a little too familiar to her.
Here is a great series from Britain and let me tell you that the British has mastered the investigation police drama after River here is the one to watch, although this one has 8 episode. She happens to be extremely intelligence, accurate intuition, and great a memory. But when she get into a blind rage, she does not recall what happen well like killing people. You are watching Marcella trying to solve the murder that she might or might not have committed. Marcella’s personality and her back story as the investigation unfolds and her personal life and professional problems become ever more tangled. Anna Friel gives Marcella a face that is entirely transparent. Although we are left with unanswered questions which is good I do not want them to reveal too much or I think it will kill the series. Of course there are some twist here and there. Marcella is a stalker detective who gets extremely violent and has blackouts. The series has an intriguing cast and it focuses on Marcella. The first season she is dealing with her break up, the kids, the investigation and the blackouts that she is having and that is a lot to deal with for a detective but Marcella seems to be doing fine in trying to find solutions to her problems. Looking forward for the second season. And yes it is on Netflix. - CreatorJack ThorneStarsSamantha MortonTahar RahimGoran BogdanIndependent Claims Specialist Naomi (Samantha Morton) is given the job by her boss, Tom (Sir John Hurt), of recovering stolen diamonds, no matter what it takes. Also on the trail of the diamonds, from a different direction, is Police Officer Khalil (Tahar Rahim). The investigation takes them across Europe and into a world where shadowy figures control events.It is a story inspired by the notorious Balkan jewel thieves the Pink Panthers Independent claims specialist Naomi (Samantha Morton) is given the job by her boss, Tom (John Hurt), of recovering stolen diamonds no matter the cost. Suddenly the investigation is taking us all over Europe.
Here is a terrific series noir. The Panthers of the title were a real gang of thieves from the former Yugoslavia. They acquired their nickname because they specialized in stealing jewels and, in one case, hid a diamond in a jar of cold cream, copying a scene from The Return of the Pink Panther. Panthers opens with a diamond robbery in Marseilles. It’s efficient, brutal and precise. The gunmen don’t even bother to cover their faces, and they deter the police response with war tactics.But something goes wrong during their escape, and a bystander is killed, triggering a series of events. An English woman, Naomi Franckom (Samantha Morton) is an insurance investigator for a firm in London that will have to pay 15 million euros if she does not recover the diamond. Here where is it getting interesting there is flash back from her life even the other characters so you know where they come from and how they meet. The series was shot on location in London, France, Belgrade and Montenegro. English, Croatian, Serbian is spoken. What I like about it takes you all over Europe so you get to see the devastating landscape or even beautiful one. You will be hooked the first episode. Only 6 episodes in this one. - CreatorDaniel BrocklehurstJim PoyserStarsDavid MorrisseyClaudie BlakleyIan HartTaxi driver Vince McKee finds his life taking an unexpected turn after he accepts an offer to drive for a criminal gang.Vince (David Morrissey) , an ordinary cabdriver who, at the urging of a friend who is an ex-con, takes a job driving for a crime lord known as the Horse (Colm Meaney). The friend (Ian Hart) who recruited him makes it sound as if the job were practically the same as being a cabby. But is he in for a surprise.
Vince is reluctant at first. But he takes the job because he needs the money. Little did he know how is family life is going to change for ever. You know where the story goes from here it has been done over and over. He also finds out that the lies he has told but can’t keep track of them and sooner or later it will catch up to them. It is done in a film style Neo-noir here that works well. It has 4 episodes I am waiting for the second season if there is one but they are going to have to do better then that. The British has done well with series especially with police thriller series. But this one needs a little work if it wants to survive. - CreatorDaniel KnaufStarsMichael J. AndersonAdrienne BarbeauClancy BrownDuring the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a war being fought between Heaven and Hell.
It is set in 1934 where a fugitive named Ben Hawkins buries his mother and takes up with a traveling Carnival. The Carnivàle is owned by the mysterious and unseen Management, who has its claws on the young Hawkins, for the boy has an gift: he can heal the lame and raise the dead – but it comes at a price. Ben also finds himself disturbed by war and prophetic dreams, which he shares with a Methodist preacher in California, Brother Justin Crowe. Justin in convinced that god speaks to him but is he really. The thing is going to be a battle between good and evil. Justin has a sister who will do anything for him. The tone of and the visual of the story is very dusty under a hot sun. The characters are getting dirtier and sweatier as they go south. The décor is as authentic as it is going to be it is like you are there with the characters. It is back in the day where Carnival was like a freak show like the bearded lady , the sword swallower etc……..and the thing is that the writer spiced it up with two good and evil characters. Here is a great story telling again by HBO. - CreatorBruno DumontStarsAlane DelhayeLucy CaronBernard PruvostA murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France.Set in a small town on the Northern French coast in a few short days around Bastille Day, P’tit Quinquin is the latest TV drama, comedy à la Twin Peaks from Dumont to open with the discovery of a body. Here, the corpse is found stuffed inside a dead cow. Leading the investigation is Captain Van Der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost), aided by his oft-puzzled partner Carpentier (Philippe Jore). It’s not long before a second corpse turns up in similar circumstances, and the bodies quickly begin to pile up. Meanwhile, the title character (Alane Delhaye) is a mischievous off beat kid who roams the town with his girlfriend Eve (Lucy Caron) and his off beat young mates. There are a bunch of homophobes and bigots. Quinquin looks like (when he is going to grow up) a deviant serial killer but he seems like a nice boy.
For the most part here it is a black comedy off beat and crazy at times, and you can tell right away that it is the work of Dumont who is such a genius. Dumont seems to use actors that are not professional actors, I think he sees the face of a dude in the street that looks a little bizarre and tells him if he would like to make a film or series for the most part that is what he does.This is director Bruno Dumont’s satirical vision of France. Keep in mind it is a off beat comedy that is on steroid. You see Davis leach has influence a lot of directors in his life time. At times it was going on my nerves a little bit but you have to give it time. Some of you might not like it at all. the series is an irresistibly funny accretion of quirky characters and bizarre details – the unpriestly behaviour of the priests at a funeral; The two off beat and bizarre cops etc…. The series is a little compulsive at times. Of course I come to find out that is going to be a Hollywood remake. No thank you. I love this one just fine. I am getting tired of remake. - CreatorDan FranckStarsGérard DepardieuBenoît MagimelGéraldine PailhasA tale of power, corruption and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the French port city of Marseille.Marseille a Netflix French production the first for Netflix. Robert Taro (Gérard Depardieu) has been mayor of Marseille for 20 years. His assistant Lucas Barres (Benoît Magimel) is this young lone wolf who want to seek his teeth to be the next Mayor. The election is around the corner and secrets are starting to fly left and right who are really those politicians? And who is going to win?
First Netflix production in France. Robert Tarot has been the mayor of Marseille for 20 years. He is ready to retire and pass on the position to his assistant Lucas Barres (Benoît Margimel) . But who are really those two politicians? Yes there will be secrets that will surface and corrupted primaries election, Gangsters who has a foot in politics and vice versa. The daughter of the mayor frequenting drug dealers also working for a newspaper. Well you have the usual suspects. It is moving at the pace of a thriller. Beautiful photography of the city. The only thing is that the dialogue could of been better but it is still fun to watch and is becoming addictive. If there is a second season they better brush up on the dialogue. On the other side the décor is natural and shot of course in Marseille. You will see the city in all those shot of le Vieux-Port and its big wheel, city hall , the Velodrome stadium, the fish market and the Notre-Dame de la Garde. Yes I have seen this last year when I went to Marseille. It is a good series but hopefully next season if there is one could turn out a great series. - StarsAlexander SkarsgårdJames RansoneLee TergesenA Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.Generation Kill, a seven-part mini-series. The series was based on Wright’s book, which chronicled his time embedded with the First Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corp during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In this mini-series there are no introduction to the characters none no background actually we know very little about them. We get right to it, right in the Iraqi war back in 2003. Wright I believe is a writer for the rolling stone and got on the front line with a group pf soldiers. Wright himself is a character in the show and once the marines meet him he gets sneer by them until he mention that he wrote for Hustler previously. Now the group in all ear and wright has respect from the soldiers. The Battalion’s Bravo Company is preparing for the invasion of the country and finally to their daily patrols in Baghdad. They express themselves with dead honesty. Although they express their frustration with the bureaucracy of the military. And yes there is a lot of dialogue some combat as you can see that the soldier are eager to go to war and want to see some action as soon as possible. It is a all star cast here. They get lucky in not getting too many casualties. There you have it a raw and honest feel to the war in Iraq in 2003. An other great HBO mini-series. - CreatorJack AmielMichael BeglerStarsClive OwenAndré HollandJeremy BobbA look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.A few years ago, director Steven Soderbergh announced he was thinking about taking a break from directing . He’s been busy since then, and if his involvement in the new Cinemax series The Knick is any indication, that he is going to be busy again. The knick is a ten episode series. Clive Owen plays Dr. John W. Thackery, a surgeon at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital, circa 1900. Thackery is a egotist with a well-developed god complex and a serious addiction to cocaine. He is also phenomenally gifted doctor and a groundbreaking pioneer in surgical technique.
Dr. Thackery (partially based on the real historical figure of William Stewart Halsted) is appointed the new leader of the hospital’s surgery staff. Plus there is electricity for the first time in New York and he is forced to deal with it because of course it is working then not. He is revolutionizing the practice of medicine. His drug addiction is keeping him on the edge here but to what extent. He does not sleep much and spent his spare time in China town. It is a teaching hospital and the surgery are perform as other doctor are watching. A black doctor name Dr. Edwards is introduce in the hospital well you know how that is going to be some are not taking it too lightly. Plus Edwards is force to open a clinic downstairs the hospital in order to practice. Many cases are explore here even new medical equipment. Sometimes the doctors are force to improvised. And yes Steven Soderbergh has done an outstanding job here directing all 10 episodes. Stylish camera work and some electronic music give the show an almost surreal tone. The costumes are superb even the décor it is like you are in the décor yourself and you are living the life. Yes it is a medical show but the period in 1900 that makes it interesting and do not miss this show. Plus the last episode is awesome especially the very end. - CreatorSally WainwrightStarsSarah LancashireSiobhan FinneranJames NortonYorkshire-based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.Here is again a terrific British series well written and thought out. Here is a British police officer Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) (I am not going to reveal anything just in case you did not see the series yet) who has outstanding families difficulty due to the fact that her daughter has died. one day an accountant who is nervous want to report a crime. When she noticed that someone that she recognized has got out of prison. She is trying to find him while in a mean time there is a crime who is about to take place. It is a good story with some twist and turn plus no-one has told it like that before. Cathrine is struggling through life with some tragedy that has happen and other things that is going on with her family and yes she has an ex-husband. She is trying to make sense of her life not recovering totally by the tragedy but when she sees this ex convict who got out of prison all this is bringing it back. In the meantime she learn that an other crime has being committed and is trying to investigate. Terrific acting by Sarah Lancashire and the others. The thing that I like it looks like that they shot it in the winter which lakes it more gritty. do not miss this one it is on Netflix . It is a BBC and original Netflix series by the way.
- CreatorJames BurrowsGlen CharlesLes CharlesStarsTed DansonRhea PerlmanJohn RatzenbergerThe regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.Sam Malone (Danson) a recovering alcoholic baseball player has invested in a bar and with the help of diverse members of staff, fill the glasses of the regulars that drop in as they exchange witty comments about drink, work and love, or bitch about drinking politics and love.
It was a big success for this sitcom 11 years running who would go thought. A bunch of regulars coming in and drinking after work to bitch or not to bitch about their day at work for their personal lives. It remains that it was the ongoing on/off relationship between failed baseball star Sam and Diane (Shelley Long) for a while there to keep the season from cancelling. But then Shelley Long decided to leave the show. Some of the characters were George Wendt and John Ratzenberger, former professional coach Nicholas Colasanto, waitress Rhea Perlman. Plus the show went to some changes Kirstie Alley who became the owner and Colasanto passed away in real life and the Woody Harrelson character was created). Psychiatrist Kelsey Grammar (and wife Bebe Neuwirth) would also come along early in the series and just add more color, heart and intelligence to a show that had a surplus of all those elements throughout its 11-year-run. Even years later the show still stands out and it is still fun to watch it. I got to own a bar someday. - CreatorBonnie TurnerTerry TurnerStarsJohn LithgowJane CurtinKristen JohnstonA group of aliens is sent to Earth, disguised as a human family, to experience and report life on the third planet from the sun.A group of aliens are sent on earth to see how human lives and to learn their behaviour. They are disguise as a human family. They report to their planet which is the 3rd rock from the sun.
You know you have to cast John Lithgow in this series they are no other way. He is perfect for it. He plays Dick a college professor. Sally (Kristen Johnson), Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Harry (French Stewart) is the rest of the clan who is suppose to study humans and report to their planet. Sally is hilarious especially when she is dressed in a mini shirt and discover what it does to the male species. Tommy is an old alien in a teenager’s body, Sally is a male in a female’s body and Dick acts like a radio and receive messages from home. In the mix there will be a romance between Dick and Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) . The cast is absolutely delicious here and well as the writers. John Lithgow is a delight to watch here is a wonderful actor at work. It is funny as hell sometimes silly as it can be but you will have a good time. - CreatorSimon MirrenDavid WolstencroftStarsGeorge BlagdenAlexander VlahosTygh RunyanIn 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.In 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world Versailles but budget, politics, and others who doe not want to see this happen complicates things.
It is the highest budget series in France. Despite being a largely French-financed project, the series was shot in English with an eye toward a larger international audience. They casted English actors and some French one at that this I was not happy about. I would rather that they put French actors in the original language would of being better after all the king of France spoke French not English. But it is a great production. We starts in 1667 where the queen is pregnant and expecting at anytime. The king’s brother is married but he is gay and to top it off his brother has an affair with her. The king is trying to build the château of Versailles who is still standing today and I have visited twice now. The thing is when his wife delivers the baby surprise surprise well you will see I am not divulging this one but the king tells his people that the child is dead at birth. Terrific costume by the team consisted of about thirty people yeah amazing right scary you need at least 30 people to do the job when you see the series you are going to understand. And yes it is a Canal Plus’ original creation. Plus there are some new one this year at least 6 they say so I can’t wait, I am going to collect them all. Of course I will review them and yes there is a second season coming up soon I hope. - CreatorDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsJennifer AnistonCourteney CoxLisa KudrowFollows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.Joey (Matt LeBlanc), the aspiring actor who is little clueless about the real world, Chandler, (Matthew Perry), the sarcastic dude, Ross (David Schwimmer), a palaeontologist who just found out that his wife is a lesbian and is pregnant with their child, Monica (Courtney Cox), Ross’s sister and an aspiring chef who is also compulsively clean, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), a singer/masseuse who is spaying karma all over the place , and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), the spoiled rich girl who just left her fiance at the alter and moves to Manhattan to start life on her own. How is the for a bunch of friends.
The series center on those friends and their lives in New York. Ho! by the way there all the black people in New York that is the thing most of the series took place with those friends who made relationship along the way but once in a great while you will meet a Black Woman, or Asian, and so on. If you are in New York well there is a mixed of people there I now that on I went to New York there is a little flaw in the series. And there were the crushes on each other plus the dating and the other stuff that went on in their life. The writing and acting is amazing plus the actors has chemistry big time. It is one of the best sitcom beside Seinfeld and the longest running. - CreatorLarry DavidJerry SeinfeldStarsJerry SeinfeldJulia Louis-DreyfusMichael RichardsThe continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.Here is a show at first that I could not stand and I said to myself this is so bad. But 4 years has past I caught it on the rerun on UPN, then I said to myself dam! this is good what was I thinking not liking it before. Well it took 4 years for the rating to take off and thank God that NBC did not cancelled it. Seinfeld became one of the most influential series ever beamed over the airwaves. Running 9 seasons it pushed all boundaries. Before Seinfeld, would anyone have dared talk about masturbation or feminine hygiene products on a network sitcom? well that is a no-no not until Seinfeld came along. Seinfeld poke at every thing. The characters George, Jerry, Elaine, and even Kramer were dysfunctional people if you ever saw one.
- CreatorElizabeth MeriwetherStarsZooey DeschanelJake JohnsonMax GreenfieldAfter a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.New Girl, it is centered the new girl, Jess (Deschannel), who, after a bad break-up with her boyfriend, moves into a loft apartment with three guys. A quirky middle-school teacher with an off beat sense of humor and a love for all things cute, Jess has problems in her relationships with guys (and pretty much everyone else.)
This sitcom took a little time to get use to it. Jess is a little naïve, dives into the relationship too quickly and risk getting hurt, while trying to watch out for her friends. Her new roommates, Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) have their own problems as well, whether with women, work or life in general. Bartender Nick, the group’s sad dude, has his own bad break-up to deal with, but he’s suffering from a lack of motivation , having dropped out of law school without a goal in sight. Schmidt, on the other hand is a wanna-be womanizer, which he has it together who is obsessed with style and labels. Winston has returned from his time playing basketball in Latvia, without a job or prospects, in terms of a career or a relationship. It is a perfect group for Jess to join in and their adventure begin. Give it some time on this one it is targeted for the young people who will relate to immediately. - CreatorBarbara HallStarsTéa LeoniTim DalyErich BergenA political drama which looks into the life of the Secretary of State as she tries to balance work with family.Elizabeth (Théa Leoni) is your leading lady, tougher and smarter than anyone around her, bucking convention to save the day and do what’s right. She has a family, every modern women balance their work and their family life. She is talented in what she does and finds solution to the problems at work and well in her personal life.
Her main obstacle seems to be the president’s Chief of Staff, Russell Jackson (Zeljko Ivanek). He won’t go away quickly, as he clashes with Elizabeth as the series goes on. The cast are Tim Daly (Private Practice, Wings) as Elizabeth’s husband, Henry, a professor who catches many of his young female students’ eyes, Evan Roe as Elizabeth’s self-described anarchist son, Jason, and Katherine Herzer as good daughter Alison. I like that the fact that the series revolves around both her work and he family life which she has a nice family ad understanding husband. It is moving just fine but the thing is it missing something do not get me wrong it is a nice series I do not know if it will go the distance, but it is worth a look. - CreatorJulie PlecStarsJoseph MorganDaniel GilliesClaire HoltA family of power-hungry thousand-year-old vampires look to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong.First it is a spin-off from the vampire diaries and that does not guarantee a success for the Originals. But somehow it did here. The Original vampire / werewolf hybrid Klaus ends up in the French Quarter of New Orleans, having left the comfortable familiarity of Mystic Falls. He comes to find that his former protégé Marcus rules the city that Klaus. Marcus rules as tough as they some , having kicked out the werewolves and blocked witches from using their magic with a secret weapon of his own. Marcel’s rule becomes a problem when Klaus discovers that werewolf Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin), another former cast member of The Vampire Diaries, is pregnant with his baby.. It becomes an alliance as Marcel and Klaus battle for control of New Orleans, catching humans, vampires and witches in the struggle.
Here is a perfect watchable series. You have Klaus who is the nasty, misunderstood villain with a temperament, his brother Elijah is the smooth, polished polar opposite. Daniel Gillies adds a touch of class to the show as Elijah, the well dressed vampire holding the first vampire family together. Rebekah is the baby sister of the family and Klaus protects her to death, often leading to huge conflicts between them which threaten to ruin all of his plans. Hayley becomes fully fleshed out as Klaus’s baby’s mother. The pregnancy storyline adds more to the series helping to make Klaus a more developed character. The first season kick ass here and it is addictive as hell. - StarsMirei KiritaniMao DaichiMayuko KawakitaTokita Mayuko who was majored in textile technology moved to Tokyo and finally found a job in Ginza. Mayuko's dream is to develop new kinds of fabric, but she ends up working in a handmade luxury lingerie atelier called Emotion.Here is a smart series from Netflix but shot in japan. A young country girl just out of school goes to work in the big city. The store is a high-end custom lingerie shop. There are wealthy customers who frequent the shop. It is a high-hand shop where every thing is made by hand, well they make lingerie. The obsessed and perfectionist owner, the assistant designers, the business manager, etc. The new girl who seems to know her fabric is trying to find her place in the shop. She is suppose to learn the business, not easy with an over obsessive boss who is a perfectionist.
At first they ask her to make coffee and do errands around the office, but the new girl Mayuko Tokitois (Mirei Kiritani) wants to learn and work. The Atelier has a front room it is the show room, then there is the atelier (work shop) where the employee works and makes by hand the lingerie. Again there is double door where the boos is Mayumi Nanjo. When the staff talks about her, she’s called The Boss. Tokitois has a hard time to please the boss which the boss is hard on her. Here is a terrific series produced by Netflix with subtitles. It show you the world of an Atelier and their employees and yes at time there are funny moments. It is like the film the Devil wear Prada but in a lingerie shop here and in Japan. - CreatorCharles Marquis WarrenStarsClint EastwoodPaul BrinegarSteve RainesGil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.Rawhide was pretty big back in the day and while it might be easy to dismiss it five decades since it was originally started showing on CBS in 1959, the show lasted eight seasons and remembered to this day – and for good reason. Rawhide was a great show and it holds up well. One of those rare breed network shows to combine genuinely interesting and believable characters, exciting adventure, romance, action and suspense in a timeless setting: the old west.
Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) is a trail boss responsible for leading his group of cowboys from Texas to the northern states where they’re to drop off their herd. Gil is his right hand man, Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood), a tough guy (Yes you read right Clint Eastwood has gotten his start with the fine series), along with their crew, Gil and Rowdy encounter all manner of situations as their journey expands, from native Indians, thieves, bandits, cons, along with friendships, romance and camaraderie. there were a few well more than a few guest appearances from Leslie Nielsen to Lon Chaney Jr. to Dick Van Patten to DeForest Kelly, among others! Supporting Clint and Eric Fleming, who is also excellent in his lead role, are Sheb Wooley as Pete Nolan, Paul Brinegar as Wishbone, Steve Raines as Jim Quince, Rocky Shahan as Joe Scarlett and James Murdock as Mushy Mushgrove. Some of you might be too young to know who they were or are but if you get a old of this series I strongly recommend it. - CreatorMichael HirstStarsJonathan Rhys MeyersHenry CavillAnthony BrophyEpic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.The series tells in a fictional and loosely adapted the story of the life of Henry VIII, his reign and his successive marriages.
Nice one there I do add myself. It is a great series who told the story their way in a fictionalized manner and it might piss off some historian but is it is entertaining as hell. By documenting the early years of his reign, The Tudor is able to catch Henry who at 18 was in power. Everyone knows about the fat, bearded, dangerously misogynistic Henry, but in his youthful years he was not only more physically agile and sexually adventurous so they tell us here but also a bit more forward thinking. Of course, a lot of events didn’t go his way, and his anger would soon rise to cause woe. The Tudors doesn’t shy away from telling the story. Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became King Henry VII at age 28 after defeating Richard III and later marrying Elizabeth of York. His rise was complicated and bloody, but his reign led to peace, and he eventually started the transition to his oldest son, Prince Arthur. Nice costume as authentic has it is going to get. The actors stand out in this series as well a job well done. Fun to watch although it does not shy away from the nudity or anything else. - StarsChiwetel EjioforMatthew GoodeJoanna VanderhamSet in the 1930s, a black Jazz band rises in fame and popularity while becoming entangled in an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the elite of London society.Dancing on the Edge takes place in the 1930s, exploring racial tensions in Europe when a jazz band, led by Louis (Chiwetel Ejiofor), begins to get attention in London, with help from journalist Stanley (Matthew Goode). There is also some problem with the booking of venues and immigration complications for one particular member, but Poliakoff wants to do something more with the story. The forbidding romance plus a dead body surfacing.
Here is a great mini-series from Britain where Jacquelin Bisset has won a golden globe for this one if I am not mistaken. It has 6 episodes of 1 hour and 30 minutes long. It is about this jazz nabs who is trying to make a name for themselves with the help of a journalist acting as the manager, but will encounter the difficulties of a black jazz band to make it big due to racism. There is a forbidding romance that will take in effects here well done by Poliakoff. There will be an incident that will set off a series of events. Bisset’s performance is outstanding. The decor plus the music are great here it feels that you are really in the 30’s. An other British drama that kicks ass of course it is a period piece again but I love it. - CreatorKarianne LundJo NesbøErik SkjoldbjærgStarsHenrik MestadAne Dahl TorpEldar SkarIn the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union because the newly-elected environmentally-friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.In the near future, Jesper Berg, the new Prime Minister of Norway, announces that it has decided to honour an election promise by stopping the extraction of oil in the North Sea, the country can now meet its energy needs by thorium nuclear plants. The European Union very dependent on North Sea oil, reacted to this announcement by asking Russia, the USA has left NATO to intervene in Norway to ensure, by all means, the resumption of exploitation of oil platforms.
Here is a series from Norway and I do love those Norwegian series especially their thriller. Even Denmark makes great thriller series and movies. So I decided to take a look at this one and I like it .Occupied is, of course, a purely fictional series. But the Ukrainian conflict which broke out when at the turn of the wheel seems to have given it a realistic touch. The writers must of said to themselves what if? The script who is well written has a constant dramatic progression which builds up the tension into a pressure cooker. Conflict between nations, Occupied focuses on reactions to events of several characters: the Prime Minister, his bodyguard, the ambassador of Russia, a journalist and his wife operates a restaurant the interior minister should they deal in preserving some freedom, or should they resist and is it going to open doors for some other group to make things worst? Here is a series that you should get into at the end of the season one it is open for another season but no word yet. I think I heard a rumour that they will be a second season. - CreatorSam ShawStarsRachel BrosnahanMichael ChernusChristopher DenhamIn 1943 Los Alamos, New Mexico, a team of government scientists is working on the top-secret Manhattan Project in a race to produce an atomic bomb before the Nazis. Meanwhile, their families adjust to life on the military base.The Manhattan Project, America’s race to develop an atomic bomb during World War II, is surely one of the strangest chapters in American history. It is the race against the clock to to build an atomic bomb. They gathered the brightest mind in the country in the desert into a little town that the military build so their families could leave there. Security is tight well you know why, they have to keep things secret.
Okay so here is a series that is interesting to watch. They put their family in this artificial city with the brightest mind to build an Atomic bomb before anyone else. It is inspired loosely on real facts. There is history fact here but also they added fiction to make it interesting I suppose. Also real characters has made their entrance like Oppenheimer , Neils Bohr and Einstein has make brief appearances. Yes there is the jargon of the physics and mathematics behind the atomic bomb and sometimes it can get boring but you are glued to the TV of this additive show. Then Bomb was created and scientist thought they could contribute to end the war. little did they know the impact of it. There is two stories here the one of the scientist trying to figure out to build the bomb and their family who is trying to fight boredom. They are teams of scientist who want to have their team to be the first to figure out this equation own this deadly A-Bomb. It never gets boring watching it as I thought It would be but interesting enough in wanting to see the next episode. Here is a terrific historic series that is worth watching. - StarsJean-Hugues AngladeRaphaëlle AgoguéMichaël CohenCapitain Chatelet investigates a series of mythological murders which will hit close to home and her own inner demons.Mathias Freire (Jean-Hugues Anglade), psychiatrist, and Anaïs Chatelet (Raphaëlle Agogué), captain at the Bordeaux police station, have to work together on a series murders inspired by Greek mythology crimes. Mathias takes care of a man found near a crime scene and has lost his memory overnight. Little by little he sees himself into his patient and begins to ask questions. Did he have the same memory loss that his patient. Did he has memory loss which he is having a hard time of getting back. Did he have memory loss, did he suffer of a mental fugue? Suddenly he takes off to try to answer those question.
It is a well thought out series that at the end will leave it open to get an other season out of it but I do not think it is going to happen due to the rating but I do like this series anyway. Well acted by Jean-Hugues Anglade an actor who diversified himself even has done American films. He plays a psychiatrist who takes a patient who was wandering at the scene of the crime. This event opened up in his own memory a bunch of question which is attached with one secret after an other. It is a pursuit of his own identity and might what happened. Is there someone pulling the string here. There is two stories that will merge with each other. It is suspenseful enough and will keep you wanting more. I hope this is an other season but unfortunately I doubt it. By the way this series is from Europacorp the production company of Luc Besson. - CreatorAziz AnsariAlan YangStarsAziz AnsariEric WareheimLena WaitheThe personal and professional life of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York.Master of None is a different series by Netflix. What it is about well it is about of a lot of things. It’s a casually multicultural, multiracial comedy on how identity matters and it is dead on. Youth are blessed those days with technology taking it away can be paralysing. it is a charming comedy spoofed the modern consumer-bro with pop culture.
We are introduces us to Dev’s maybe-girlfriend, Rachel (Noël Wells), and his pals Arnold (Eric Wareheim), Brian (Kelvin Yu) and Denise (Lena Waithe) watching and observing their friends who has kids. Even ask them question if having kids is a good thing. Later in the next episodes it flashes back when their parent were immigrant and got into the country. Here is a series that have such diversity of culture that it clashes ad makes a bang. What I like is the diversity of subjects and culture in it where you don’t see that too much in sitcom. Master of None is the evolution of every day observations. Here is a terrific sitcom that should not be missed. - CreatorNoah HawleyStarsBilly Bob ThorntonMartin FreemanAllison TolmanVarious chronicles of deception, intrigue, and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. All of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.Season 2 is an all new true crime case of Fargo’s new chapter travels back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer investigates, a case where a local gang is involved with a crime mob family.
First nice cast in this season and a cool story from back in 1979 yeah the good old days. Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) who is married to Molly and has a father in law Ted Dason) as a cop like himself gets involved in a crime where a local gang is involve in a crime mob family, well the mob wants their territory so they make an offer but you guessed it the local gang won’t have it and yes they were right to be suspicious of the deal. Of course you have the 1979 music, the cars, the fashion, even Ronald Reagan (Bruce Campbell), help sell that image. Lou is going through a tough time his wife is fighting cancer. An other story emerges Peggy Blumquist (Kirsten Dunst) a hoarder housewife her spouse, Ed (Jesse Plemons) is not the victim. Peggy is scared of event that she can’t control but does a good job to get out of them with out of scratch. A chain of event will follow and put in motion the story. Pay very attention at the last episode at the beginning it will reveal something interesting. Great second season here , have fun. - CreatorAbi MorganStarsStellan SkarsgårdNicola WalkerAdeel AkhtarJohn River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.The main character is John River, a Detective Inspector with the Police working in the East End of London. He is a genuinely complicated man, and he has a Swedish background, but he has obvious mental health issues he fights to control. He is a man who is a genius at his job but he is haunted my the murder of his partner.
Here is a detective who is a genius and is struggling with the fact that is partner is dead. Plus he hear and see people he shouldn’t, to top it all off is is seeing by the Police shrink who tries to help him with his struggle. I am not going to reveal much for those who has not seen the series. River is paired up with a new partner who is trying to understand him and does not know where he comes from. The music has some classic disco which triggers some fond memories of the 70’s. It is raw at its purest form to my knowledge it has not been told like this. It is an other series from Netflix that is kicking ass. - StarsRichard HarringtonMali HarriesAlex HarriesA noir crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Wales, where troubled DCI Tom Mathias solves murders while searching for redemption.Set in Aberystwyth, Wales, Hinterland we follows the talented but troubled DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington, Bleak House), who finds himself back in deepest, darkest Wales after a decade working in London. On his first day in his new job Mathias is called out to investigate the suspicious disappearance of 64-year-old Helen Jenkins, whose quiet seaside bungalow is splattered with blood. His investigation leads him to an ancient ravine at Devil’s Bridge, before the trail leads him to a box of teeth and a abandoned children’s home.
Here is a Neo-Noir series that is grippy, dark, sombre, has a grayish feeling to it. The background is Wales in the winter where the weather is raising and snowing. The atmosphere is hanging with the appropriates music. There is a touch of realism here. Of course the town has some secrets that is reveals at a slow pace. Keep in mind there is 4 episodes of an hour an a half each. The chemistry of the actors is there as well as their outstanding performances. And yes there is a second season. - StarsRobson GreenMark LetherenEmma HandyA psychologist gets inside of the minds of both killers and victims to aid the police in solving gruesome serial killings in Northern England.The series is set in the fictional town of Bradfield, which is assumed to lie within West Yorkshire. It follows the Major Incident Team (MIT) of Bradfield Metropolitan Police’s CID and the assistance provided to the detectives by clinical psychologist and serial offender profiler Dr. Tony Hill. All of the main episodes revolve around a serial killer whom Hill helps to track down by means of a profile, based on the killer’s actions.
Here is a great series that tracks down serial killers by the police with the help of Dr.Tony Hill (Robson Green), a slightly eccentric clinical and troubled psychologist who works part time with the police force of Bradford, England. He has a reputation of solving the case like a puzzle. Hermione Norris played Detective Inspector/Chief Inspector Carol Jordan of Bradford CID, who managed to rein Tony’s scattered abilities and make sense of them. Green is the lead of the show and he is brilliant. The show a cross CSI and law and order. They solve the cases of serial killer and tried to make sense of it. They are a good team here and who ever cast the series my hats goes to you. There are 6 episodes of one hour and 1/2 each, which is better this way. Here is an other one that you should look at. - StarsFrançois-Xavier DemaisonPierre-François Martin-LavalAlix PoissonWhen a teenage girl does not return home from a festival, her parents contact the police.Leah Morel, 17, disappeared the evening of the Music Festival in Lyon. Her family is distraught Julien father sets out to find her while the mother Florence tries to hold on. Thomas her brother did not escort her like her mother asked of him. The commander Molina, who just arrived in the city, well he got transfer to Lyon, is responsible for finding the girl. He will discover that the investigation is going to be difficult than expected and discover that every family has secrets.
Here is a terrific mini-series that is well written and well acted, even the dialogue stand out. This mini-series is inspired of a Spanish series as well as the American series Without a Trace and Broadchurch. Here is a young girl who leaves to go with her friends at the music festival in Lyon. Her brother supposes to meet her in the morning to escort her home after all a young seventeen year old along in the city at the early hour of the morning any thing could happen but he didn’t , well a teenager is a teenager and wants their privacy plus they want to be on their own. The mother is in mode of panic almost and calls her cell phone numerous time. It is about the Morel family the two brother has a restaurant in Lyon. One of them is a widow he lost his wife now what he has left is his daughter. Molina the detective is transferred to Lyon, he is just settle in when the case is drop on his lap. He has an angry father who is looking for his daughter and does not think that the police is doing enough. on the other hand the mother is trying to old on and blaming her son for not meeting her later. Of course there is twist and turn and one of the parents will go to the extreme to get his daughter back. Secrets are surfacing and the police is frustrated as well in the family. Well casted, and well acted here also the director has brought to the table a lot of realism into it.
There is 8 episodes and all of them are directed by Charlotte Brandström. The cinematography is outstanding plus I was able to see the city of Lyon which I am going to visit soon. - CreatorHarlan CobenSydney GallondeStarsAlexandra LamyPascal ElbéLionel AbelanskiA doctor is shot in the back in her home, her husband is murdered and her infant daughter kidnapped. Faced with inept police, who at times suspect her, she begins her own hunt for her baby and the culprits.Here is a terrific mini-series form the novel of Harlan Coben who said at one time it is better to do the mini-series than a movie like that you do not have to take out some stuff from the book. Thus is not the first time he sold the right of one of his book Guillaume Canet directed don’t tell anyone that one was done in a form of a movie. Plus in No second chances the main character is a man but there they revered it and made a woman.
Alice Lambert,(Alexandra Lamy) shot and wounded, learned that her husband was killed and her 6 month old baby, Tara, has disappeared. While the kidnappers ask for ransom , Alice asks for help to her in-laws and her friend the lawyer Louis Berthel (Lionel Abelanski).
Here is a nice series where a woman who got shot and woke up in a coma after a week is finding out that her husband is dead and her six-year-old baby gone. The police suspect her from the start and mess up the investigation instead of looking somewhere else. There is twist and turns in this series and every time you think you guessed it well surprise. Alice here who is an everyday woman will stop at nothing to get her child back. She will get involved of doing things behind the police’s back. Either party is frustrated about each other and can’t work with each other. A terrific role for Alexandra Lamy, an emotional role not easy to do of a desperate mother trying to find her child at any cost. also an old flame comes back in her life to help her out. A nice series where every turn is a twist waiting to happen. - CreatorJimmy McGovernStarsHélène de FougerollesClémentine CélariéBruno WolkowitchA French language remake of the acclaimed British drama series AccusedHere is a series that has been copied from the British like I said they copy each other that is worth the look. Each episode is a citizen accused to commit a crime. In a form of flashback we are able to see how he got accused and seat on the accused bench in court.
Here is a series that is like a court series but instead to be like Law and order you see the accused on the bench then you look at his life back before he got accused until he seat on the bench awaiting the verdict from the judge. It comes in 6 episodes :
The story of Hellene: where her son got murdered and she is trying to find her murderer so she can be at peace with her.
The story of Laurent. After his wife motorcycle accident who left her paralysed, Lauret has a affair with her therapist.
The story of Martin. Learning of an attack of a young girl, A father suspect his own son.
The story of Sophie. a complex divorce begins.
The story of Simon: After witnesses an attack on a woman and cable to intervene, he falls in love with her.
The story of Claire. She discovers the man she is been chatting online is her student and is falling in love with her.
Here is the six story that you will discover. It is court drama done a little differently. - CreatorLionel OlengaStéphane DrouetLaurent ScaleseStarsAbdelhafid MetalsiGreg GermainFrançois BureloupThe adventures and misadventures of the always-smiling Kader Cherif, Captain of Lyons' Criminal Brigade with an eccentric way to solve the cases, and his by-the-book new partner, Adeline Briard.Kader Sheriff loves his job. He is a detective in the city of Lyon France. He loves his job so much that he lives across the street. He is an unorthodox detective. He interrogate the victim in his home serving tea so they don’t stress too much as he says. He has a new partner coming in. He is also divorced and has one 15 years old daughter he share custody with his wife. He drives a 504 Peugeot super sport 1984. And as he says his training is to watch series like Starchy and Hutch, Kojack etc…..
Here is a series with humor light heated fun to watch. It is on Netflix in Europe. Here is a new partner coming in and Cherif is trying to break the ice but Adeline Briard (Carole Leblanc) won’t have it well not yet anyway. His daughter is getting him a hard time and it is not easy to raise a kid when you are a cop. The thing is with that series it is shot in Lyon and I get to see the city from time to time. Basically it is you typical series solving crime but it is done with humor on the light side. A show that all the family can watch. Adeline has a closet in her skeleton and Cherif is trying to warm up to her. The first season is just what the doctor ordered. What I like about this that you see in Cherif’s office you will see a poster of the film Shaft. He is a big fan of the cop American series as well as American police thrillers. - CreatorMarion FestraëtsArnaud MalherbeStarsClovis CornillacHugo BeckerAnne CharrierChefs in France. Competition drama and more.A chef, figure own a restaurant in Paris Named Le Paris, takes in every year in his brigade a young offender on probation. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world which blends of gastronomy and excellence. After a difficult integration, it shows a real talent and moves up the ranks.
Here is a terrific series with some twist and turn that is across drama and a thriller where the writing si intelligent and the direction of the story is original. The characters are very well incarnated as well acted and Clovis Cornillac shines here big time the role is just written for him in mind I suppose. Clovis is plays the role of the chef who owns the restaurant and this chef has a big head there is no second best for him. He except the best from his brigade and his sous-chef. Of course he comes with an ugly past and when he accept an ex-con in his kitchen this time it is not by accident he has chosen him. Basically the chef has skeleton in his closet. Plus the fact there is a suspicious character in the mixed. I will say no more. It is on Netflix in Europe and the season one will keep you wanting more I have all 6 episode in 2 days. You will be addicted. This cast has chemistry all the actors here shines. It is a joy to see such a cast at work here; as well as the writer as put the soul into it. it is a must see. - CreatorBrad FalchukRyan MurphyHalley FeifferStarsLady GagaKathy BatesAngela BassettAn anthology series centering on different characters and locations, showcasing different aspects of horror.American Horror Story Asylum is an entirely different story, and the first two episodes set a very strong pace for the show, that is why I am doing this one season by season. The story takes places in a mental institution. and by the way you get the same actors in different roles plus they added new faces. Each season is like a different mini-series that was a smart thing to do. In Asylum it takes place in a mental institution called Briarcliff in 1963. It is run by nuns and the head nun is Jessica Lange who is this tough bitch from hell and will stand at nothing and nobody will get on her way. You have the mad doctor who does experiment on patients, an interracial couple of which one of them ends up in the institution. Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson), a shady journalist who is intent on exposing Briarcliff’s manifold abuses but something happens to her. To add it all off in the mix they add some strange characters from the institution who are the patient there for years. Plus a serial killer on the loose.
What more do you want this season 2 kick Ass big time and it is addictive as hell. It is a joy to see those actors pulling this off beautifully well. So trust me when I say this when you watch this series drink a bloody Mary like I did. And it is a perfect series to watch in October. - StarsAneurin BarnardRebecca FergusonAmanda HaleThree different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.The White Queen opens in the 15th Century, at the height of The War of the Roses; a battle for power between two houses — York and Lancaster. King Edward (Max Irons) has taken over the throne. While riding through the countryside one day, he meets Elizabeth Rivers (Rebecca Ferguson) and there is love at first sight. They soon married And Elizabeth soon finds herself on the throne as queen. Lord Warwick (James Frain) does not like Elizabeth and plots against her. Elizabeth attempts to deliver a male heir to Edward, but there is a big turmoil coming in the kingdom. Meanwhile Lady Margaret Beaufort (Amanda Hale) feels that her son, Henry Tudor, is the rightful heir to the throne and begins to manipulate the power to see it what will happen.
The white queen is a mini series that tells the British history in a detailed look at the turmoil time back then. You are going to pay attention to the story because there is so much going on and so many characters. And yes there is much backstabbing going on here bargaining and more back stabbing plus who is going to marry who to be in power. Yes there is arranged marriages back in the day that is what went on. There are witches magic just to get power and keep it flowing. It is a top-notch production with some awesome costumes design and beautiful cinematography. Ferguson delivers an outstanding role here as well as the others actors. Great story telling here as original as well. Here is a series worth looking at.