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The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “There’s beauty to the chaos that fuels and follows Lee, a guy who arranges the inventory at his bookstore so that Harold Pinter sits next to Harry Potter. Crass as that pairing may seem, it’s of a piece with The Lowdown.” – Guardian Sep 23, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 4 (2025) 84% EDIT “This is the season that these characters really needed. And there's something really beautiful in giving them that.” – CBC Radio Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Andor: Season 2 (2025) 97% EDIT “We’re not just talking about the best thing to happen to Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back. We’re talking about one of the best TV shows in recent years period.” – CBC Radio Apr 27, 2025 Full Review #1 Happy Family USA: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “[Mona Chalabi] finds fresh humour in the details – her busy animations worthy of freeze-framing just to savour every gag hidden in plain sight.” – Globe and Mail Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Dying for Sex: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “Powerfully pushes back against the shame someone might be made to feel about their body, whether it’s because of its deteriorating state due to cancer or because of intimate urges and fantasies.” – CBC Radio Apr 5, 2025 Full Review The Studio: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “A fun and chaotic look behind the scenes at the people who we love to blame for all the garbage we’re fed at movie theatres. There’s a tragedy to these characters that this series plays for laughs but also some genuine empathy and feeling.” – CBC Radio Mar 22, 2025 Full Review Adolescence: Season 1 (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s rare when an hour of anything, whether in TV or movies, has the kind of stranglehold on our nerves that the third episode does.” – CBC Radio Mar 15, 2025 Full Review Say Nothing: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “It’s these final episodes that illuminate the show’s expert craftsmanship, the way it weaves between competing perspectives and combative emotions and tries to do justice to a story that may never find just that.” – Globe and Mail Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Disclaimer: Season 1 (2024) 77% EDIT “Disclaimer can drag but also be rapturous. What I was really taken by is how Cuarón finds new avenues into themes and ideas around class and motherhood that he's been exploring from Y Tu Mamá También to Roma.” – CBC Radio Oct 15, 2024 Full Review The Penguin: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “The show tends to drags whenever it strays too far from Cristin Milioti's orbit.” – CBC Radio Sep 18, 2024 Full Review English Teacher: Season 1 (2024) 98% EDIT “Being woke is exhausting. English Teacher, a sharp and outrageously hilarious sitcom, is here to give us all a pat on the back for even trying.” – Globe and Mail Sep 4, 2024 Full Review City of God: The Fight Rages On: Season 1 (2024) 83% 2/5 EDIT “There was a structural elegance to the movie that’s completely lost in the series, which somehow -- with even more runway than its predecessor -- complicates a relatively simple set-up. ” – Guardian Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Lady in the Lake: Season 1 (2024) 75% EDIT “Portman’s precise and nuanced performance (in yet another predatory but more sympathetic role following her stunning work in May December) gives us everything we need to understand her character.” – Globe and Mail Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Presumed Innocent: Season 1 (2024) 79% EDIT “Ditches the gross self-implicating clichés from the earlier work, while making room for more women to be three-dimensional, especially Barbara, who is filled in by Ruth Negga with superhuman depth.” – Globe and Mail Jun 13, 2024 Full Review Baby Reindeer: Season 1 (2024) 99% EDIT “A successor to I May Destroy You, which was also a comedy series dealing with the messy and imperfect ways of being a survivor, and Hannah Gadby's Nanette, using comedy as a way to unpack trauma.” – CBC Radio May 5, 2024 Full Review Ripley: Season 1 (2024) 86% EDIT “The show itself becomes this beautiful work of art, with gorgeously framed shots of the Italian architecture and scenery that Ripley (Andrew Scott giving the best take on the character) aspires to be part of.” – CBC Radio Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Shōgun: Season 1 (2024) 99% EDIT “The show keeps bumping up against these impenetrable customs, walking a fine line between romanticizing and demonizing. There’s a struggle in Shōgun to make sense of it all, and poetry in its failure to do so.” – Globe and Mail Feb 27, 2024 Full Review The Curse: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “A droll Nathan Fielder parody of reality TV but with the same unforgiving critical eye Safdie brought to movies like Good Time. It can be punishing to endure. But the punishment is kind of the point.” – CBC Radio Jan 20, 2024 Full Review True Detective: Season 4 (2024) 93% EDIT “Jodie Foster brings a grit these sensational shows don’t often get to see. ” – CBC Radio Jan 15, 2024 Full Review Black Life: Untold Stories: Season 1 (2023) EDIT “The beauty of Black Life’s expansive thematic breakdown is that there’s no commitment to seeing every episode and audiences can just cherry-pick subjects they choose to be experts in.” – Globe and Mail Oct 19, 2023 Full Review The Idol: Season 1 (2023) 19% 1/4 EDIT “It’s downright queasy how Levinson continues to make content, which purports to be about how women are preyed upon, about himself, where his cast become props who either defend his voyeurism or are subjected to it.” – Globe and Mail May 31, 2023 Full Review Succession: Season 2 (2019) 97% 4/5 EDIT “That’s how Succession gets us, finding those warm and humane touches in rotten behaviour.” – NOW Toronto Apr 10, 2023 Full Review Interview With the Vampire: Season 1 (2022) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Makes you wonder why Louise wasn’t Black all along. Think about it: How did Anne Rice make a novel about a European vampire feeding off people’s bodies in the American South, while keeping Black people in the margins of that text?” – CBC Radio Nov 26, 2022 Full Review Sort Of: Season 2 (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “[The] welcoming and mindful generosity is what makes this show so brilliant and fun.” – CBC Radio Nov 26, 2022 Full Review Reservation Dogs: Season 2 (2022) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Doubles down on the heavier aspects of the show but still with that buoyant spirit.” – CBC Radio Nov 26, 2022 Full Review
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