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Showing posts with label TV Mini-Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV Mini-Series. Show all posts
Saturday, October 8, 2022

TV Review: Behind Her Eyes (2021). Netflix.

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Wooh-hoo! This is a great one for the Halloween season, if you like really scary psychological thrillers that turn out (spoiler alert) to h...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

TV Series Reviews: Dune (2000) & Children of Dune (2003). SyFy Channel (On Blu-ray DVD).

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These were two 3-part SyFy Channel TV mini-series versions of Frank Herbert’s Dune stories, made in the early 2000s. They are available o...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Movie Review: The Beatles: Get Back! (2021). Disney+.

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Another month has slipped by, and here we are – it’s Rock and Roll Friday at The Memory Cache blog again! Today I’d like to begin by posi...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

TV Review: Ridley Road (2021). BBC/PBS Masterpiece.

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Ridley Road is an intriguing short TV mini-series (of four episodes) from the BBC, which we watched on Masterpiece Theater on PBS. It is f...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

TV Review: Conversations with Friends (2022). Hulu.

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This is the second mini-series on Hulu based on a novel by Sally Rooney. I previously did a brief review of the mini-series Normal People ,...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

TV Review: Anatomy of a Scandal (2022). Netflix.

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This is a riveting political and sexual drama about a “perfect” upper class British marriage of two Oxford graduates (played by Sienna Mille...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

TV Review: The Good Lord Bird. (2020). Showtime.

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Based on the recent novel by James McBride, previously reviewed here, Ethan Hawke stars in this Showtime mini-series as the abolitionist Joh...
Friday, June 24, 2022

TV Review: McCartney 3,2,1 (Season 1, 2021). Hulu.

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I recently had the opportunity to watch a marvelously understated little documentary mini-series on Hulu called McCartney 3,2,1 . The “McC...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

TV Review: Self-Made (2020). Netflix.

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This was a 4-part miniseries about Madam C. J. Walker, the first black female millionaire, a poor woman in the early twentieth century who b...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

TV Review: The Undoing (2020). HBO Max.

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The Undoing , a major HBO mini-series released late in 2020, stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant as a rich and successful power couple on the...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

TV Review: Party Tricks (2014). Amazon Prime.

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Party Tricks is a 2014 Australian dramedy mini-series about a liberal female Prime Minister of Victoria (played by Asher Keddie), who sudde...
Friday, June 3, 2022

TV Review: The English Game (2020). Netflix.

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Set in the late 1870s and early 1880s, this very novel period piece and docudrama mini-series shows how two young men -- one a banker and Et...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

TV Review: Bodyguard (2018). Netflix.

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This 6-part mini-series from the BBC was a nice surprise when I finally decided to give it a try, after Netflix repeatedly displayed it prom...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

TV Review: Babies (2020). Netflix.

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This is a six-part documentary series on the first 12 months of babies' mental and physical development, and glimpses into ongoing resea...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

TV Review: Mare of Eastwood (2021). HBO Max.

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Kate Winslet gives an excellent performance as a weary   but driven detective in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, investigating murders of you...
Friday, May 6, 2022

TV Review: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022), Netflix, and The Flight Attendant, Seasons 1-2, HBO Max.

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The TV mini-series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window , starring Kristen Bell, is remarkably similar in ge...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

TV Review: Atlantic Crossing (2021). PBS mini-series.

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Kyle McLachlan stars as FDR in a fact-based story of the Danish princess (the wife of the crown prince) who escaped with her children from t...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

TV Mini-Series Review: Spies of Warsaw (2013). BBC, on Amazon Prime.

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As a long-time fan of Alan Furst's many outstanding novels of spies, saboteurs, dangerous liaisons and doomed lovers in pre-war and Worl...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

TV Mini-Series Review: Normal People (2020). BBC and Hulu.

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A 12-part series based on the 2018 bestselling novel of the same name by Sally Rooney, this story follows a pair of young Irish lovers, thei...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

TV Mini-Series Review: Little Fires Everywhere (2020). Hulu.

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A perfectly-timed new TV series when it was released (based on the 2017 bestseller of the same name by Celeste Ng), this series starring Ree...