Jake Paul’s cynical self-promotion
A Netflix documentary promises to show us the man beyond the boxing ring and the pranks. But it’s just another…
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Why Richard Ayoade’s Submarine still feels fresh
Now on Netflix, the coming-of-age film encapsulates the pain of adolescence in a small town.
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The erotic thriller has lost its sex appeal
Recent attempts to revive the genre, from Netflix’s Obsession to Paramount’s Fatal Attraction, are neither erotic nor thrilling.
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The Windsors is the most painfully accurate depiction of the royals on TV
Forget The Crown – the uncanny veracity of this wild satire rings out like the dinner gong at Balmoral.
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How the streaming wars are shaping culture
Today, almost every household subscribes to a streaming service; the typical US household has five. The battle for our attention…
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Netflix doesn’t understand why people watch porn
The documentary Moneyshot grapples with the adult industry’s biggest problems – but not those who consume its content.
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Netflix is moving into live TV – and the BBC should be worried
This ambitious move by Netflix is sure to make its broadcast television rivals rather nervous.
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Netflix’s Ozark is overstuffed – not to mention tonally weird
Could the channel use a hit? Every time my subscription leaves my bank account, I think again that it could.
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When did The Crown get so boring?
The new series of the Netflix show is more Hello! magazine than history – and no more exciting for it.…
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The degradation of Marilyn Monroe
In death as in life, the actress has been used, abused and commodified. Netflix’s film Blonde is just the latest…
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The deep realism of Better Call Saul
This Breaking Bad spin-off was a high point in television drama: never has a series better conveyed the complexities of…
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The cheap trend of sensationalist docudramas
Colleen Rooney? Boris Johnson? Prince Andrew? All have gone through the pop culture scandal to prestige TV pipeline.
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Netflix can’t stop cancelling its best shows – 1899 is proof
The most ambitious shows on the platform are axed before they reach their peak, frustrating writers and viewers alike.
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White Noise: a weird and wonderful spectacle
At its London Film Festival premiere, Noah Baumbach told audiences his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel is about “how crazy…
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What Don DeLillo saw coming
In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?
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Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans rights.
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The Meghan and Harry documentary isn’t really about Meghan Markle at all
For all she dominates, this isn’t a story about the duchess. It’s much bigger than that.
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The dramas exposing the horror of restaurant kitchens
Boiling Point, The Bear and The Menu find their tension in the gruelling, claustrophobic world of fine dining.
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Meghan’s Netflix documentary is made for Americans like me, not British people
It gets to the heart of transatlantic cultural differences over openness, class and racism.
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Netflix’s Harry & Meghan can’t disguise how much of this story doesn’t add up
The show is a Seventies Timotei ad meets The Crown with some light top notes of the Ladybird book of…
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