Category: tv reviews

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Life on Mars

Life on Mars (BBC 1 2006-2007) was a brilliant show whose writers understood that great stories have a beginning, middle and definitive end. It’s premise is very simple, the situations that arise therein quite complex. It weaves together a few different genres in what seems like a police procedural as interpreted through literary magical realism.

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Let’s Eat – Season 1

The only thing a 34-year-old independent divorcée cannot do by herself is to eat out, despite her habit of eating her stress out. That is until she begrudgingly befriends her floor neighbors, and embarks on a food journey that will break some hearts, but most of all bring friendship, joy and savory dishes to your soul.

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Let Them Eat Cake

What do you get when you put comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders right in the middle of the debauchery of the Palace of Versailles in 1782?

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Last Friends

Last Friends is a Japanese drama chronicling the friendship between Ruka and Michiru.

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L Word, The – Season 6 – Final

Showtime’s drama The L Word aired its last episode weeks ago, but what has the show left? The season was pretty messy, as it introduced a new storyline in 3/4 of a season, and it never wrapped anything up.

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Kids on the Slope

A Jazz-filled coming of age story following the life of Kaoru Nishimi, a young and pretty brainy kid from a well-off family who has just moved into a new school in Kyushu in the mid-60s.

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Kennedys, The

The Kennedys is an 8-episode mini-series depicting the lives of the Kennedy family from Joe Kennedy, Sr.’s attempt to start a campaign as president, John’s run for president, marriage, assassination, and Bobby’s run for president and assassination.