Spanish La casa de papel Created by Álex Pina Starring Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso, Paco Tous, Alba Flores, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente, Esther Acebo, Enrique Arce, María Pedraza, Darko Perić, Kiti Mánver, Hovik Keuchkerian, Luka Peroš, Belén Cuesta, Fernando Cayo, Rodrigo de la Serna, Najwa Nimri Theme music composer Manel Santisteban …
Post Mortem Norwegian Post Mortem: ingen dør i Skarnes Directed by Harald Zwart & Petter Holmsen Original language Norwegian Production Producers Espen Horn Kristian Strand Sinkerud, Production company Motion Blur Distributor Netflix Starring: Kathrine Thorborg Johansen as Live Hallangen Elias Holmen Sørensen as Odd Hallangen André Sørum as Reinert Kim Fairchild as Judith Sarah Khorami …
Loki Created by Michael Waldron Based on Marvel Comics Starring Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane, Jack Veal, DeObia Oparei, Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Majors Music by Natalie Holt Loki is a pleasant surprise. I’ve only watched a few of the Marvel Comic Universe …
The animation in all eight offerings in season two is well above average, ranging from a marvelously stylistic 2-D “Ice” to sly caricatures in “Automated Customer Service” to a gritty hyperrealism in “Pop Squad” or “Life Hutch”. The stories themselves had plotlines familiar to SF fans—robot uprisings, grim cops in dystopian cultures, immortality in a …
Trickster Created by Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott Based on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Directed by Michelle Latimer Starring Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Anna Lambe Take a disaffected high school boy with a messed-up home life and few prospects. Have him discover one day that he has special powers that …
Utopia Note: Since I plan to discuss the nature of the conspiracy that is central to the story only read to the double line and no further if you don’t want any plot spoilers. Created by Dennis Kelly Based on An original idea by Huw Kennair-Jones, Mark Aldridge, & Clare McDonald Written by Dennis Kelly …
The Boys, season 2 Based on The Boys by Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson Producer(s) Hartley Gorenstein & Gabriel Garcia Developed by Eric Kripke Starring Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford. Tomer Kapon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Elisabeth Shue, Colby Minifie, Aya Cash I …
iZOMBIE Based on iZOMBIE by Chris Roberson & Mike Allred Developed by Rob Thomas & Diane Ruggiero-Wright Starring Rose McIver; Malcolm Goodwin; Rahul Kohli; Robert Buckley; David Anders; Aly Michalka; Robert Knepper; Bryce Hodgson Narrated by Rose McIver Opening theme “Stop, I’m Already Dead” by Deadboy & the Elephantmen It’s a bit weird reviewing a …
Umbrella Academy Season 2 Created by Steve Blackman Based on The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Developed by Jeremy Slater Starring Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, John Magaro, Adam Godley, Colm Feore, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, Yusuf Gatewood, Marin …
Undone Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Kate Purdy Directed by Hisko Hulsing Starring Rosa Salazar, Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddharth Dhananjay, Daveed Diggs, Bob Odenkirk Undone is Amazon’s first original animated feature, and it’s hard to imagine a better start. Alma Winograde nearly dies in a car crash, and awakens with strange new ways of …