Although a load of new content appears on Netflix every week, I generally take the time to watch what interests me. I add it to my viewing list when it is announced and I often see it a few weeks after it has been released. However, last week was a week in which I could not wait until the releases of Triple Frontier (review will follow), season 2 of The OA and this series, Love, Death & Robots. With Tim Miller (director of Deadpool) and David Fincher as executive producers and a science fiction approach, I was very curious. I had not seen the trailer and I was totally unprepared for what I would experience, but when I started watching, I couldn’t get enough of it. Continue reading
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Atlanta – Season 1 – Review
Most will know Donald Glover as an actor, but he is also an artist (Childish Gambino), director, writer, comedian and producer. He appeared in Community, The Martian, Spider-Man: Homecoming and for the Han Solo film he will play Lando Calrissian. So it is someone who has a busy life and also finds the time to make his own series in the form of Atlanta. A series that wanted to see for a while, but did not get around to. Luckily I had a long flight a while ago where the show was on the entertainment system and I could finally watch it. Continue reading
Black Mirror – Season 3: Nosedive
Online we all will present ourselves slightly different from the way we really are. We won’t quickly share our negative side or bad quality pictures of ourselves. Reactions on posts others have written on social media will generally be very enthusiastic. But what would the world look like if you’d really live your online persona, where everything is perfect and you will constantly have to hide all your frustration and negative feelings? And what if you would should it and everyone around you would turn into a reviewer and give you stars based on that? That more or less is the idea behind the first episode of season 3 of Black Mirror. Continue reading
The Get Down: Season 1 – Series review
When I first heard about The Get Down earlier this year I was really looking forward to it. The first images looked good and also the description of the show sounded interesting:
“The Get Down” is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to a new art form. Set in New York in 1977, this music-driven drama series chronicles the rise of hip-hop and the last days of disco -_ told through the lives, music, art and dance of the South Bronx kids who would change the world forever.
As a fan of hip hop this was a setting that immediately was something I wanted to know more about. Through the years I’ve learned a lot about the music, how it developed and seeing that in the form of a show on Netflix seemed awesome. The show has been written and produced by Baz Luhrmann, who has done things like Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby in the past. Someone who is very capable to show music in an exciting way which is visually pleasing. Besides that, New York in the seventies is a fascinating setting. Gangs were still very active (the documentary Rubble Kings is a good one to learn more about that). There was a lot of crime and buildings were set ablaze in order to collect insurance money. With a budget of 10 million per episode my expectations were high when I started watching this six part first season. Continue reading
Cooked (2016) – Series review
If you were to look at the picture above you might assume that Netflix has now started offering cooking shows, but this isn’t the casse. After the success of Chef’s Table, which was a beautiful show that focussed on various chefs all over the world, it now has Cooked available. This four part documentary series has been made by writer Michael Pollan and filmmaker Alex Gibney (Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, The Armstrong Lie, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) and isn’t about restaurants, top chefs or a specific way of cooking. It is about food in general and makes links to the basic elements: fire, air, water and earth and the effect they have on our daily meals. Continue reading
The Bridge – Season 3 – Review
During the last couple of years The Bridge (the original version) was a great show which managed to keep me entertained during its first two seasons. With its open ending at the end of season 2, I couldn’t wait to find out what Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) and Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) would go through next. Something which stands out at the start of this new season though is that Martin seems to be absent. Is the character of Saga enough to carry a whole season? Continue reading
Jessica Jones (2015) – Season 1 – Review
I’m someone who did not grow up reading comics. I occasionally read Donald Duck or Spike and Suzy, but I did head to to the bookstore every week to buy them. The Marvel comics therefore never registered with me and I wasn’t really interested in them. But thanks to all the movies and series in recent years, I understand why people love the Marvel comics. Every superhero does have his/her own characteristics, which means there is always one which appeals to you. After seeing Deadpool last week it did make me interested in reading comics with him. Through the films and the various series you get to know these characters and the quality of them is usually high. After the fantastic Daredevil it released the next super hero at the end of last year: Jessica Jones. Continue reading
The Missing (2014) – Season 1 – Review
2006, vacation time. The British Hughes family travels to France with their son Oliver to relax. Unfortunately while underway they run into car trouble and are forced to sleep in the village Chalons du Bois. To make sure they are still having fun father Tony (James Nesbitt) takes his son swimming. It is during the world championships football and therefore it is extremely busy. When Tony goes for a drink with his son, the worst thing that a parent can experience happens: In a few seconds he loses sight of Tony and can’t find him anymore. In a panic, he starts searching, but does so in vain. Continue reading
Empire – Season 1 – Review
Sometimes you hear about these very popular shows and if you hear about them just enough, you might be interested in checking it out just to see what all the fuss is sabout. Just before the second season of Scandal started I decided to check out the first season. Continue reading
Narcos – “The Sword of Simón Bolívar” – Episode review
After the opening episode Descencos my expectations of this show were high. Director José Padilha, who was also responsible for the raw Tropa de Elite movies (which are also worth watching), is not unfamiliar with showing the dark side of society. And that dark side is something he shows in this second episode. This recap/review contains spoilers. Continue reading