Category: NetFlix
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Meet the gang from Derry Girls: who Erin, Orla, Michelle, Clare and James are, who plays them, and why Lisa McGee calls them all “eejits”.
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Avicii I’m Tim Netflix I recently watched a Tim Bergling documentary about the DJ better known as Avicii — and you should watch it too. Here’s why. Avicii was a DJ, songwriter, and musician at a time when dance music was king. I try to hang onto the coattails of what the kids are listening…
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Gabby Petito : An American Murder. This Netflix true crime documentary began as a missing person story and quickly morphed into a domestic murder case — one so big it reached across the Atlantic to the UK. That alone says something about the scale of public attention the Gabby Petito case commanded. Within the first…
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A football/soccer Documentary that shows how brutal Football can be and how it affects the community. Fans of the Disney+ hit Welcome to Wrexham will adore Sunderland ‘Til I Dies on Netflix. It’s the ultimate football documentary — and arguably the one that started it all. Is Sunderland ‘Til I Die on Netflix? Yes —…
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Legends is an undercover drug gang series and a true story TV adaptation. It follows six ordinary workers. They are recruited from Customs and Excise within the civil service to infiltrate a drugs gang. The series spans everywhere from the mountains of Afghanistan to the streets of Liverpool and a ‘gang of Turkish/Afghanistan origin’. Why…
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The Ripley TV series Crime Drama follows the adventures of the slightly unhinged grifter Tom Ripley. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr Ripley. It is part of her series of books about her anti-hero. It is one of the most stylish Netflix Tv crime dramas in recent years. Note the series is just called ‘Ripley’. First Impression It’s an art-house…
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What Is In The Land Of Saints And Sinners about? Set during the Troubles, In the Land of Saints and Sinners follows Finbar Murphy (Liam Neeson), a quiet man in a small rural Irish village who unwittingly finds himself at odds with an IRA cell on the run. If you’re after a gripping Troubles-era thriller,…
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A Drama That Brings Home the Horrors of Knife Crime As the Drama goes on it explores and Brings out the issues of teenage subcultures Finally What did I think of Adolescence? The drama gripped me from beginning to end. It was raw, and often overwhelmingly emotional. Was any of this overdone for the sake…
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Where to Stream: Netflix Background: The Sexism Judit Polgár Had to Overcome Before Judit Polgár emerged, many leading figures in chess openly claimed that women lacked the mental ability to compete with men at the highest level. Those views were common throughout much of the chess establishment and discouraged many talented female players from pursuing…
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Hulk Hogan: Real American Documentary Review – His Rise, Fall and Lasting Legacy. The question that I asked to myself was Did Terry Bolea gradually turn into Hulk Hogan? Yes, I think so. Terry Bollea gradually became Hulk Hogan. As his fame grew, so did the legend. Like the comic-book hero, he seemed larger than…
