Dead Boy Detectives feels like a perfect fit for Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant), who helped steer Supernatural to consistent success alongside Eric Kripke (The Boys) between 2017 and 2019. Perfect because these Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Matt Wagner (Grendel) creations, who made their first appearance in Sandman 25 for a storyline called ‘Season of
If the only man Pablo Escobar feared was a woman named Griselda Blanco (Sofia Vergara), then audiences best buckle up, because Netflix are intent on unleashing hell in this blood-soaked dramatisation of her rise to eminence as a Miami drug baron. Forging a path through dangerous waters as a mother of three and rising up
Image via Netflix Best-selling novels with an award-winning back story come no weightier than All the Light We Cannot See, since the adversity of war trumps almost any obstacle. Throw in a siege perpetrated by the dreaded German army circa 1944, and suddenly stakes have been upped, antes increased, and audiences find themselves in Pulitzer
Image via Netflix With all the pomp and ceremony of an ornate Gothic horror, writer-director Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass) casts an affectionate eye over Edgar Allan Poe as he dives into The Fall of the House of Usher, introducing an extended family of pampered siblings who are waiting around for Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) to
Time travelling sci-fi murder mysteries are not only a real effort to say in one sentence, but rarely measure up to the expectations of others when so many genres are packed into one show. Bodies is a rare exception that bucks the trend, makes a mockery of conventions and does away with any assumption audiences
Heart-felt yet hedonistic, Netflix’s Sex Education concludes with one final swing for the fences, bringing back Jean (Gillian Anderson), Otis (Asa Butterfield), Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Maeve (Emma Mackey) in a fourth season that hits home. From the audacious opening season that tore down taboos in 2019 without thinking twice, this Netflix trailblazer has always
The drama is out on Netflix now. Painkiller aims for audacious satire, dishes up indignation and looks to ignite the embers of debate around the US’s opioid addiction over six incisive episodes. By telling a fictionalised version of the story of Oxycontin — which Disney+ did so successfully with Dopesick — creators Micah Fitzerman-Blue and
With an on-going threat of Eastern bloc uprising from an obsolete superpower, openly corrupt world leaders pleading their innocence both sides of the pond, and global economies in freefall – it seems an ideal time for another Black Mirror from Charlie Brooker. Between himself and producer Annabel Jones, Black Mirror moved from being a cult
Headlined by a charismatic cast, Netflix’s new fantasy series Lockwood & Co — streaming from 27 January — proves that quantum realms and alternate dimensions are old hat. Based on the hit YA books by acclaimed fantasy writer Jonathan Stroud — the creator of the Bartimaeus books — this glossy adaptation from writer-director Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) introduces a supernatural
As the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comes calling to conjure our dreams before dawn, who knows what awaits those who consider themselves immune to his advances? Only time will tell as show runner Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman), creator Neil Gaiman (American Gods) and DC wunderkind David S. Goyer (Foundation) bring their vision to Netflix
Few books can claim to have carved a franchise furrow in popular culture encompassing both gamers and the streaming studio elite. Fewer still have successfully crossed over with a show headed up by a marquee star with character acting credentials. That the aforementioned gamers were ready to lynch up all comers when it came to
This is landmark stuff. Mixing dysfunctional family dynamics with enhanced human protagonists, Jupiter’s Legacy feels mythical. Author Mark Millar already has form at Marvel, is lauded for Kick–Ass as well as secret service curveball Kingsman: The Secret Service. He is an edgy Scot with mainstream pretensions, who has fine tuned his own brand of comic book creation into something unique.
Dead Boy Detectives feels like a perfect fit for Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant), who helped steer Supernatural to consistent success alongside Eric Kripke (The Boys) between 2017 and 2019. Perfect because these Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Matt Wagner (Grendel) creations, who made their first appearance in Sandman 25 for a storyline called ‘Season of
If the only man Pablo Escobar feared was a woman named Griselda Blanco (Sofia Vergara), then audiences best buckle up, because Netflix are intent on unleashing hell in this blood-soaked dramatisation of her rise to eminence as a Miami drug baron. Forging a path through dangerous waters as a mother of three and rising up
Image via Netflix Best-selling novels with an award-winning back story come no weightier than All the Light We Cannot See, since the adversity of war trumps almost any obstacle. Throw in a siege perpetrated by the dreaded German army circa 1944, and suddenly stakes have been upped, antes increased, and audiences find themselves in Pulitzer
Image via Netflix With all the pomp and ceremony of an ornate Gothic horror, writer-director Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass) casts an affectionate eye over Edgar Allan Poe as he dives into The Fall of the House of Usher, introducing an extended family of pampered siblings who are waiting around for Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) to
Time travelling sci-fi murder mysteries are not only a real effort to say in one sentence, but rarely measure up to the expectations of others when so many genres are packed into one show. Bodies is a rare exception that bucks the trend, makes a mockery of conventions and does away with any assumption audiences
Heart-felt yet hedonistic, Netflix’s Sex Education concludes with one final swing for the fences, bringing back Jean (Gillian Anderson), Otis (Asa Butterfield), Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Maeve (Emma Mackey) in a fourth season that hits home. From the audacious opening season that tore down taboos in 2019 without thinking twice, this Netflix trailblazer has always
The drama is out on Netflix now. Painkiller aims for audacious satire, dishes up indignation and looks to ignite the embers of debate around the US’s opioid addiction over six incisive episodes. By telling a fictionalised version of the story of Oxycontin — which Disney+ did so successfully with Dopesick — creators Micah Fitzerman-Blue and
With an on-going threat of Eastern bloc uprising from an obsolete superpower, openly corrupt world leaders pleading their innocence both sides of the pond, and global economies in freefall – it seems an ideal time for another Black Mirror from Charlie Brooker. Between himself and producer Annabel Jones, Black Mirror moved from being a cult
Headlined by a charismatic cast, Netflix’s new fantasy series Lockwood & Co — streaming from 27 January — proves that quantum realms and alternate dimensions are old hat. Based on the hit YA books by acclaimed fantasy writer Jonathan Stroud — the creator of the Bartimaeus books — this glossy adaptation from writer-director Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) introduces a supernatural
As the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comes calling to conjure our dreams before dawn, who knows what awaits those who consider themselves immune to his advances? Only time will tell as show runner Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman), creator Neil Gaiman (American Gods) and DC wunderkind David S. Goyer (Foundation) bring their vision to Netflix
Few books can claim to have carved a franchise furrow in popular culture encompassing both gamers and the streaming studio elite. Fewer still have successfully crossed over with a show headed up by a marquee star with character acting credentials. That the aforementioned gamers were ready to lynch up all comers when it came to
This is landmark stuff. Mixing dysfunctional family dynamics with enhanced human protagonists, Jupiter’s Legacy feels mythical. Author Mark Millar already has form at Marvel, is lauded for Kick–Ass as well as secret service curveball Kingsman: The Secret Service. He is an edgy Scot with mainstream pretensions, who has fine tuned his own brand of comic book creation into something unique.