The Great — 2.5 Gavels 84% Rotten Tomatoes
Nyet, Nyet, Nyet, three episodes were all I could tolerate. The full title of The Great, to its credit, is The Great* ….
Banished — 3.0 Gavels 7.4/10 IMDb
Can the heirs of Governor Arthur Phillip sue the producers of Banished for slander? Set in the early days of the establishment of…
Doctor Thorne — 4.5 Gavels 87% Rotten Tomatoes
Between Downton Abbey and Belgravia, Julian Fellowes finds time for Doctor Thorne. A four-part series on Amazon, it is based on a novel…
White Lines — 3.0 Gavels 64% Rotten Tomatoes
Start with a dash of The Godfather, add a pinch of Hamlet, finish with a huge dollop of daytime soap, and you get…
Silk — 4.0 Gavels 83% Rotten Tomatoes
British lawyer shows like Silk have as much similarity to the American legal system as Ally McBeal. With wigs, solicitors, barristers, clerks, and…
Suffragette — 3.5 Gavels 73% Rotten Tomatoes
What country did not give women the right to vote until 1971? If you correctly answered Switzerland, you may be an expert on…
The Wrong Missy — -1 Gavels 5.1/10 IMDb
I checked the filmography of David Spade just to make sure. Yep, he has never been in a movie that I liked. The…
High Fidelity — 3.5 Gavels 85% Rotten Tomatoes
If you are over 70, or under 40, and don’t remember the iconic scene from High Fidelity (2000), see below: Although the references…
World on Fire — 3.5 Gavels 83% Rotten Tomatoes
By this time, I hoped to be able to highly recommend World on Fire brought to you by Masterpiece Theater on PBS. The…
Schitt’s Creek — 3.5 Gavels 64% Rotten Tomatoes
Schitt’s Creek is the reverse-Beverly Hillbillies. Despite eighteen Canadian Screen Awards, I’ve avoided this show because its name sounds like . . ….