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The king of ‘prestige true crime’ is back with a doozy
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s attention to dissecting true crimes through their links to culture and place is binge-worthy. His latest docu-series centres on Berlin.
Colin Farrell’s Sugar will have you hooked
California’s mean streets are lent a warm touch of nostalgia in a private detective series armed with film noir sentiment
Law & Order creator joins Netflix’s true crime juggernaut
Dick Wolf’s new series excavates New York’s past, merging storytelling and journalism, unashamedly giving us criminality, violence, gritty realism, horror, and psychopathology. It is riveting TV.
Proof that sophisticated TV storytelling is still going strong
David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, recently declared his hit series’ 25th anniversary should be ‘a funeral’ for the industry instead of a celebration, that TV had been dumbed down by streaming. Maybe he should watch this.
‘No one knew where the jokes were coming from’
The death of comedic TV writer Mike McColl Jones truly ends an era when absolutely anything could have happened next.
‘Profoundly entertaining’: Why the government can’t be believed
The Octopus Murders will ensnare you in a bewildering tangle of evidence, political ideas, and delicious scuttlebutt. It’s dark and unsettling and profoundly entertaining.
Sick Jimmy Savile gets the Coogan treatment
Britain’s best-known presenter of TV programs for young people was simply one of the most evil men who ever lived. Does funnyman Steve Coogan capture the extent of his depravity?
Robert Carlyle is back as a PM under siege in Cobra: Rebellion
In its third outing, the British thriller series poses questions about environmental activism and vexed foreign relations.
A scandalous tale of criminal deception
This is a series that examines the notion of procedural justice and the problems of police bias and, like the best true crime, American Nightmare is conspicuously well made, crisply edited and beautifully photographed.
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