Category: tv reviews

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Teen Beach Movie

As messy and flawed as it is, Teen Beach Movie’s love for musicals, smart choreography, and genuinely enjoyable nature help make it something that isn’t nearly as bad as one might think.

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Galileo XX: Utsumi Kaoru’s Last Case

Raise your hand if you missed Kou Shibasaki on this year’s Galileo series? It certainly doesn’t seem like I was the only person to do so, because according to rumors- Fuji TV got fan letters requesting Shibasaki be back… so they did.

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Pushing Daisies

Part fairytale romance, part quirky crime mystery solving, part snarky comedy food-loving musical and more; Pushing Daisies achieved a stroke of genius uniqueness that is hardly ever going to show up on television again.

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Bitter Sweet Home Kyoto

Kamo is a Kyoto woman who hates Kyoto’s hoity-toity attitude towards tradition, hence she left for Tokyo to never return again, but now she must return to take over the troubled family inn.

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Louie – Season 3

Unlike the past two seasons that veered with non-linear storylines and multiple situations, Season 3 focuses on Louis C.K.’s loneliness and how he deals with it.

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Galileo 2 (Jdrama)

Galileo 2 is the second series following the 2007 drama that gave way to Dr. Yukawa with Masaharu Fukuyama back for his role as the handsome eccentric physicist who helps the police solve crimes linked to strange phenomena.

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Hannibal – Season 1

Hannibal overturns expectations of crime procedurals and Lecter incarnations by focusing on the first-hand and secondhand effects of murder on the mind.

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Hit & Miss (UK Show)

A 6-episode British show following the life of Mia, nee Ryan, a male to female (MTF) transgender person who happens to be a hitman.

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Dostoevsky (Russian Miniseries)

Directed by Vladimir Khotinenko and starring Yevgeny Mironov as the iconic Russian writer, Dostoevsky chronicles his life from when he was about to be executed in 1849 through all the women he was interested in or loved.