![]() Season five touches the live rail of harassment in the movie industry, offering one of the most astute commentaries yet on the #MeToo movement with an episode based centred around an awards ceremony called “The Forgivies”.Ī valentine to the Spielberg school of Eighties blockbuster, with Winona Ryder as a small-town mom whose son is abducted by a transdimensional monster. Will Arnett plays BoJack – one time star of Nineties hit sitcom Horsin’ Around – as a lost soul whose turbo-charged narcissism prevents him getting his life together.Īlmost as good are a support cast including Alison Brie ( Glow, Mad Men), Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad, and Amy Sedaris as a pampered Persian cat who is also BoJack’s agent. Yet the series almost immediately transcended its format to deliver a moving and very funny rumination on depression and middle-age malaise. Plus, there was the impressive supporting cast of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Fred Armisen, Gwendoline Christie and the first, last and always Wednesday Addams, Christina Ricci.Ī cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development… on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams “must watch”. This was a bang-up to date Wednesday plunged into an old school murder mystery that doubled as a showcase for the charismatic Ortega. She also ruled the streaming roost in Tim Burton’s Dark Academia reimagining of the old Addams Family character. Jenna Ortega broke the internet with her meme-friendly Wednesday dance last year. A spin-off reality show has been confirmed – a disturbing example of life imitating art. ![]() ![]() The shock factor is high – but the characters are compellingly drawn and the implicit criticism of the widening gulf between rich and poor earns parallels with Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. There’s only one catch – put a foot wrong and a machine gun will take your arm off. These are presided over by guards dressed like refugees from Super Mario Brothers by way of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner. Here are 65 of its most essential shows – some you will definitely have heard of, and maybe some you are unfamiliar with.Īnyone for “Red Light, Green Light”? Netflix’s fastest word-of-mouth phenomenon since Stranger Things, the Korean drama finds a rag-tag of gambling addicts and bankrupts vying for the payday of a lifetime by playing a series of traditional children’s games. And while House of Cards quickly descended into potboiler nonsense (with leading star Kevin Spacey being fired from the series after sexual assault allegations), Netflix has rumbled on. Netflix was a major winner at the latest Emmys, its haul of 23 awards attesting to its power-player status. The show represented a huge risk for the streaming service as it sought to make the leap from tech start-up to entertainment industry goliath.ġ0 years on and the gamble has paid off. It was the first episode of House of Cards – a $100m TV series that would only be available on the Internet. Netflix’s televised revolution began in earnest in February 2013, when the machiavellian political schemer Frank Underwood looked straight into the camera and casually snapped a dog’s neck. Watched all the big hits on Netflix and now you’re scrambling around the home screen hoping the algorithm sereves you up something bingeable? Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter
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