Physical kinda reminds me of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend for how it talks about trauma and mental disorder in such a brutally dark way but while always finding a light and entertaining way to do so. Even though it's a bit less fun and a bit more dark, at least in how it conveys the main character's trauma and inner turmoil not as beautiful musical numbers but as the most brutal voiceover you can imagine. As it usually happens, it takes a couple of episodes to find its voice but then it becomes really good and season 2 raises the bar. The cast is good, Rose Byrne is amazing, the half hour runtime is perfect, it's not a masterpiece but it's a good show. I only fear the repeated cycle of hope/despair could get repetitive but I guess it depends on how many seasons they're gonna make.
Great acting, great writing, so many funny scenes and so much depths. Plus, I so want to spend many years with these people. It's one of those shows.
Such a step up from the already great first season in how all characters evolve and are dissected. Even the minor ones.
Relevant, funny, moving, incredibly well acted, written and directed, so dense, human, full of thought and deep but also visually inventive and fascinating. Wow.
Amazingly written, directed and acted. Kate Winslet is on a different level but the whole cast is really great. And the best thing about it is that even though the mystery is quite interesting, I didn't really give a fuck about the whoddunit, I just wanted to spend time in that place, with those characters. But still, the mystery works. Amazing.
What an incredible way to manage something that has an only possible ending, which makes it predictable, by still make it amazingly perfect. Pluys, it's 5 more episodes than season 3 and it still didn't feel too long.
This is where it goes from a really good show to fucking amazing. I laughed to tears and realized they were tears of sadness. The musical numbers are out of this world, the themes are interesting and everything is so well written. Amazing show, even though I kinda feel it sometimes feels a bit stretched, with too many episodes.
Even on a rewatch that made me appreciate season 1 more, the upgrade on season 2 is palpable. After a couple of episodes to start the engines, it becomes amazing.
Amazing stuff. Great writing, great acting, it works really well both as a drama about victims and a detective story. I loved it. Plus, Loretta McCready is in my heart.
Wonderfully written, directed and acted. Florence Pugh is out of this world.
I was a bit turned off by the rhetoric of the monologues but that's nitpicking. This is amazing TV, impeccably produced, written, directed and acted, incredibly gripping and moving, fascinating, admirable in the adaptation work. Great stuff.
I finally managed to convince my wife that she would love it and that it's not too scary for her, so I'm doing a rewatch while she's watching it for the first time. In going back after season three, apart from the fun of seeing the young actors as little kids again, it's amazing to see how different the vibe was. This is really dark, desperate, and there are almost no laughs, just a few smiles. I'm not against the evolution they decided for, I'm just noticing how different it is. Anyway, season 1 is still really, really good, even though of course the tension is not the same, knowing nobody is really at risk.
Jesus, what an amazing ending.
The engine is now running at full force and show is almost constantly amazing: funny as hell, quite engaging, full of great ideas, never scared of reinventing itself and with a great bunch of actors. I also almost have to admit that Kristen Bell is an acquired taste by now.
Nice and fun until it finally becomes great. But jesus I hate how it uses songs. Not always. But most of the time.
So much better than everything Marvel/Netflix did after the first season of Jessica Jones.
Even better than season one: the humour is more on point, the themes are very well tackled (and probably more relevant now than when the show was written) and the acting is getting better.
Two episodes to warm up the engines, then that fight and only love for the rest of the season. Amazing.
Basically it's like Masters of Sex but with people getting to intercourse through rape and murder instead of counseling.
Still a deep, funny, emotional, greatly written, directed and acted series. And that final episode, gosh, I was a mess. Such a pity that it's been canceled.
This is Girls at its best: abrasive, gripping, funny, adorable.
The whole nodding to the eighties is a bit too heavy at times, especially when it clones scenes, costumes and stuff, but it's a lot less annoying than I feared. That being said, it's a very entertaining show: fun, well written, acted and directed, it uses all the cliches but it also subverts some of them. And thank god it's only 8 episodes, with no fillers at all.
It's not as focused and balanced as season four, sometimes it drags, and the jumping around betweend drama and comedy is messier than usual (even though I generally still love it). But season four was almost perfect, so... That being said, when it works, it's still up there with the best TV around, brave, important, deep and smart. And funny, which in my book is never an issue. Because, you know, life is funny, even stupidly funny, even when it's not. And the final episode, once again, is great.
Another great adaptation (even though I kinda miss the dialogue about penises size between Hap and Florida) and a more emotional story than season one. It's fun, tense, thematically strong, visually interesting (even though Jim Mickle is clearly missed) and very well written. The cast is fabulous and the atmosphere is great. I can't wait for season three.
A great adaptation that gets basically everything that counts right. The cast is perfect, the feel is sweaty, dialogues are spot on and it's a lot of fun.
Aziz Ansari pulls out his inner Louie and gives us an amazing, funny, challenging, stylish, deep season of TV. Wow!
Less gripping drama and thrills than season 6, but a great final season, that takes its time to close all the storylines the right way and has got a very nice and warm "goodbye" feel. Sorry for Birdie, though.
This is amazing, with every season it gets better and better. Deep characters, tense drama, great plot twists and raw emotions all the way. And the final cliffhanger is just... wow.
It's not as good as the astonishing season five but it's a return to form after a troubled sixth year and it's a strong and bold finale for what is probably the best network series of the last... I don't know... fifteen years?
