Obi-Wan Kenobi (season 1)

As the Disney/Star Wars behemoth rumbles on, this time we're heading back to the midpoint between Episodes 3 and 4: after Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) dispatches the Dark Side-turned Anakin Skywalker, and before a young Luke Skywalker goes looking for a certain Ben Kenobi. We find Obi-Wan/Ben working in a factory on Tatooine, keeping an …

Stranger Things (season 2)

My rewatch of the excellent Stranger Things continues as I run towards the new episodes. Season 1 both tied up the initial story and left an obvious way to continue. And so, welcome back to Hawkins, Indiana, just in time for Halloween, 1984. It didn't occur to me at the time, but each season revolves …

Stranger Things (season 1)

As the fourth season of Stranger Things debuts on Netflix, I asked myself if I should plough right in or did I need to refresh my memory a bit on season 3. Then I realised I hadn't ever rewatched a season, so it felt time to go right back to the beginning! We start on …

Moon Knight (season 1)

Museum gift shop worker, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) has problems. He's rubbish with romance, his boss won't give him a promotion despite his encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Ancient Egyptian, and he has to cuff himself to the bedpost every night to stop some quite extreme sleep-walking. As in, wake up in a different country …

Only Murders in the Building (season 1)

When a murder occurs in an upper-class New York apartment building, three neighbours meet and discover a shared love of true-crime podcasts. And when they have a real case literally on their doorsteps, why not dramatise their own mystery?! As the three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez) work together to unravel the crime, …

The Book of Boba Fett (season 1)

Back when Star Wars was new and exciting (ahem!), a mysterious, helmeted baddy by the name of Boba Fett went up against the original heroes of the series and met a sticky end. 'True' fans, however (ie not me!), read all the comics and canon/non-canon tales from the saga and already knew that a sarlacc's stomach …

Nine Perfect Strangers (season 1)

Tranquillum House is an exclusive and upmarket wellness retreat, run by the mysterious and ethereal Masha (Nicole Kidman with a dodgy Russian accent). Attendance is by invitation only, so when nine highly stressed guests arrive, it's a guessing game as to what might connect a family reeling from suicide, a formerly successful romance novelist, a …

Loki (season 1)

Of all the new MCU tv shows - WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier - the one I was most looking forward to was this, Loki. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is a fascinating character, as is his evolution in the Marvel universe: from pure, if faceted, villain in both Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012), the character was so …

Falcon and the Winter Soldier (season 1)

The best thing about the new MCU tv shows is the chance they give fans to see a continuation of the story from the movies, the so-called Infinity Saga. WandaVision was a very personal look at how Wanda Maximoff coped with the trauma she'd been through, and Loki will pick up (at least) one dangling plot thread from Endgame. …

Jupiter’s Legacy (season 1)

There's nothing like a studio/company cancelling a new show when you're halfway through watching it - cheers for that, Netflix. But, was it deserved or should it be offered a reprieve? Jupiter's Legacy is split between two timelines. In the 'now', we have a modern world where superheroes are real and have been for 90 …