The humour is addictively wry, reeling you in gag by subtle gag. Schitt’s Creek stars father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy, alongside Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy as a well-to-Canadian family forced to start over, in the eponymous no-horse town, when their millions vanish. The wry sitcom that has become everybody’s favourite escape hatch from real world events. An English-language remake on Prime Video missed the point entirely. The setting of this French show is a high-powered Parisian talent agency, where our heroes do their best to keep real-life stars happy (there are cameos by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Monica Bellucci, Sigourney Weaver and others), even as they walk the tightrope of their own complicated personal lives. It’s much better than the 2022 HBO dramatisation starring Colin Firth as Peterson. It’s a feat of bravura factual filmmaking from French documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which comes to Netflix with a recently shot three-part coda catching up with the (very weird) Peterson clan a decade on. Featuring Japanese-style anime art, we fellows siblings Hayley and Taylor as they look for their missing parents – and find more than they bargained for.ĭid he do it? Does it matter considering the lengths that the Durham, North Carolina police seemingly went to in order to stitch him up? Sitting through this twisting, turning documentary about the trial of Michael Peterson – charged with the murder in 2003 of his wife – the viewer may find themselves alternately empathising with and recoiling from the accused. The setting is a post-apocalyptic Australia, sealed off from the outside world and ruled by rampaging “Kaiju” – ie this universe’s answer to Godzilla. The Duffers are currently at work on a fifth and final series.Īnimated sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 monsters v giant robots modern classic. Such was its reach it introduced Gen Zers to Kate Bush (giving Bush her first US number one) and, with its Hellfire Club of Dungeons and Dragons players, made nerdy table-top gaming cool. Season four was the most popular yet as we saw the gang tangle with evil wizard Vecna. Stranger Things was just getting started, though. Series three introduced Soviets tunnelling beneath Hawkins, Indiana and homages to Terminator and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It was clear Stranger Things was going to be a mega-smash when Barb – the “best friend” character eaten in the second episode – went viral the weekend it dropped. ET, Goonies, Close Encounters, Alien and everything Stephen King wrote between 19 are all tossed into the blender by Millennial writer-creators the Duffer brothers. A valentine to the Spielberg school of Eighties blockbuster, with Winona Ryder as a small-town mom whose son is abducted by a transdimensional monster.
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