Items14The creator’s order
  1. 1Succession (2018)Succession (2018) 8.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 3 Jun 2018The dialogue's cruelty and the performances make the Roy family's struggle for control easy to admire. My difficulty is the company: another beautifully delivered humiliation can feel like more time in the same poisonous room. If shifts of leverage and comic self-delusion fascinate you, that…0
  2. 2The Bear (2022)The Bear (2022) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 23 Jun 2022The kitchen work has extraordinary immediacy, and a small act of competence can feel momentous. The overlapping demands and raised voices also recreate a kind of stress I do not seek in an evening's television. That is a mismatch with its method, not an objection to the acting. Viewers energised by…0
  3. 3The Handmaid's Tale (2017)The Handmaid's Tale (2017) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 Apr 2017Elisabeth Moss gives the resistance inside an apparently obedient face real force. The repeated exposure to coercion and sexual violence makes sustained viewing too punishing for my taste. The political stakes are clear; returning to that atmosphere is the obstacle. If an unrelenting account of…0
  4. 4Westworld (2016)Westworld (2016) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 2 Oct 2016The opening theme-park premise offers a compelling question about who gets treated as a person. My interest thins when understanding the arrangement of timelines and revelations becomes a major part of the reward. Fans who enjoy reconstructing a carefully withheld picture have a different…0
  5. 5Lost (2004)Lost (2004) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Sept 2004The stranded survivors and their flashbacks supply plenty of immediate human interest. My patience weakens when a new mystery defers the satisfaction of the previous one. That appetite for continuing possibility helps explain the show's hold on its admirers. I am more comfortable with a question…0
  6. 6The Walking Dead (2010)The Walking Dead (2010) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 31 Oct 2010The early survival drama makes a dangerous encounter feel consequential, and the ensemble gives people different ideas about what is worth preserving. The recurring cycle of refuge, threat and devastating loss wears me down. The problem is the long-term rhythm, rather than a belief that zombie…0
  7. 7Hannibal (2013)Hannibal (2013) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 Apr 2013Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy give the central relationship a disturbing intimacy, while the imagery turns crime into something close to an ornate nightmare. That aesthetic concentration is precisely where I lose contact with it. I find the elaborate presentation of mutilation distancing rather…0
  8. 8House of the Dragon (2022)House of the Dragon (2022) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 Aug 2022The dynastic dispute has strong performances and a clear interest in how inheritance turns family into politics. The accumulation of titles, rival claims and calculated marriages asks me to care about a contest whose participants rarely offer much relief. Large-scale fantasy is not the obstacle by…0
  9. 9Mr. Robot (2015)Mr. Robot (2015) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Jun 2015Rami Malek gives Elliot a distinctive, unsettled presence, and the technical systems have genuine dramatic weight. My difficulty comes when unstable perception makes following events feel like an exercise in continually revising the terms. That uncertainty can be the attraction for a viewer who…0
  10. 10Dark (2017)Dark (2017) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Dec 2017The German series treats its interlocking families and times with impressive seriousness. Keeping track of the connections becomes a substantial share of the work, and I find that effort crowds out my attachment to individual people. This is a preference about how a mystery occupies attention, not…0