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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