Dexter: New Blood

When Dexter ended its seven-year run, critics and audiences were far from happy, so this limited series was a second chance to get things right. Reconnecting with the last scene…

The Beatles: Get Back

Covering The Beatles at work on their final studio album, the 1970 documentary Let It Be depicted a band on the verge of breaking up, ending with the now legendary,…

The Unlikely Murderer

On a late winter evening in 1986, a graphic designer (Robert Gustafsson) becomes the unlikely murderer of Sweden’s Prime Minister. What was initially presented in 2020 by the prosecutor in…

Sherlock: The Adventures of a Modern Detective

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Photo: BBC There’s a moment in ”A Scandal in Belgravia”, the first episode of the second season of Sherlock, that made me laugh. Sherlock Holmes…

The Underground Railroad

Two slaves, Cora and Caesar (Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre), escape from their Georgia owner via the mysterious Underground Railroad, pursued by a slave catcher (Joel Edgerton) and his assistant, a…

Oslo 

In 1993, two Norwegian diplomats (Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott), who are also married, talk Palestinian and Israeli representatives into secret negotiations. This adaptation of the play may lose some of…

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 

This limited series, premiering shortly after WandaVision, also reconnected with Avengers: Endgame (2019), presenting new challenges for two of the Avengers: Bucky (Sebastian Stan), the former Winter Soldier, trying to…

WandaVision

What on earth is this, an entire audience asked as this limited series began in the style of a 1950s sitcom starring two Marvel heroes who had last been seen…

The Haunting 

Two classic ghost stories, ”The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson and ”The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James, were loosely adapted for two seasons of this horror…

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 

When their parents leave the house to go Christmas shopping, 10-year-old Finn Baxter (Christian Martyn) and his older sister (Jodelle Ferland) are left home alone… and a group of thieves…