What TV To Watch

Show Genre: Quirky-Strange

Severance

When the first season of this show ended I immediately went back to the beginning and watched the entire season again, it was that good. Our protagonists work for a mysterious company that allows some workers to completely sever their work life from their personal life – their work persona (their “Innie”) has no knowledge …

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Murderville

This is a weird one – the premise is that Will Arnett is a cop (Terry Seattle) who each episode is joined by a new celebrity trainee (playing themselves), and the celebrity trainee has to solve a murder.  The celebrity guest has no script, so their entire part is improvised, while the other actors have …

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Landscapers

This odd miniseries tells the true story of Chris and Susan Edwards, a middle-aged couple in England who were convicted of murdering her parents and burying their bodies in the back garden. Excellently acted by Olivia Coleman and David Thewlis, the series moves around in time and plays with various methods of storytelling as it …

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Dispatches from Elsewhere

Four people, each missing something in his or her life, embark on a real life “scavenger hunt” type game.  Richard E Grant is delicious as the game-runner. Deals directly and with complexity with depression, loss and change but is also magical and inspiring.  At the end it becomes very meta as Jason Segel deals with …

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Comrade Detective

It’s hard to describe this. The premise is that present day tv historians have unearthed a Romanian detective/propaganda series from the 1980’s and have dubbed it into English using famous present-day actors — Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon Levitt voice the leads. The “original” is super-cheesy, overacted with bad effects and casual violence. The dubbing …

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