The first of the Avengers, post-Endgame shows. Each episode is a send up of television history, moving from the 1950s through the decades – a sitcom starring Wanda Maximoff and Vision as a perfect TV couple in a perfect suburban town, with a nosy neighbor and wacky hijinks. But of course there is something else …
Post-Endgame, Sam (The Falcon) and Bucky (The Winter Soldier) work to find their place in a world and together without Steve Rogers. Bucky is still struggling with the fallout from being a bad guy for nearly a hundred years, while Sam deals with pervasive racism. Complex, interesting storytelling that explores the legacy of Captain America …
Post-Endgame, Loki finds himself an involuntary “guest” of the Time Variance Authority, a mysterious organization that monitors the timeline and removes unwanted variations. Well made, with excellent acting, but the action dragged and the plot could be difficult to follow.
Post-Endgame, Clint Barton (Hawkeye) tries to live life as a private family man and forget the more troubling parts of his past. The past catches up to him during a family vacation to New York, and he partners with a young woman who has always idolized him to solve a mystery and kick some butt. …
The first live-action Star Wars television show. Set in the time after the original trilogy (the first Death Star has been destroyed), this show follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter. Fiercely devoted to the Mandalorian way, the character is at first something of a cipher—always wearing a mask, doing the task, recovering the bounty. He is …
Popular horror series about kids in the 1980s that captured the zeitgeist. I personally didn’t find it all that frightening, but I know others who found it truly creepy. Season 2 was gory in places. I enjoyed watching it at the time, but as soon as I was done couldn’t remember much about it. The …
Mild-mannered accountant Marty Byrde (played by Jason Bateman) has to relocate his family to a Missouri summer resort community after a money laundering scheme goes wrong. Marty is in trouble with a drug lord and has a short time to make things right. This story starts slow but soon causes one to make poor choices …
This show, set in the late 1970s, early 1980s, follows Elizabeth (Keri Russel) and Philip (Matthew Rhys) Jennings and their two kids, an ordinary family in the suburbs of DC. Except that Philip and Elizabeth are actually Soviet spies under deep cover. Thoughtfully written with strong acting and great female characters, this high quality drama …
This taut thriller follows police officer David Budd, stunningly portrayed by Richard Madden. DS Budd is a war veteran, barely holding his life and psyche together, always on alert, suffering from PTSD. He is also very, very good at his job protecting dignitaries. When he distinguishes himself by thwarting a bombing, he is promoted to …
The night manager of a hotel (Tom Hiddleston) is recruited by an MI-6 intelligence operative (Olivia Coleman) to infiltrate the inner circle of an arms dealer (Hugh Laurie). Gorgeously acted but sometimes a little slow moving – the friendly menace of Hugh Laurie’s portrayal is chilling.