Before discussing this 16-episode TV series, I offer a few hallmarks of Korean drama. Be prepared for confusing triple-barrelled names and speedy subtitles that demand alertness, as do complex plots that pit the police against the prosecution. Expect an idiosyncratic male character, paired chastely with a female one, to serve as the moral compass in […]

The English Game has heart, but then don’t all sports stories that make it to the screen have heart? Think Remember the Titans for football, Hoosiers for basketball and A League of Their Own for baseball — women’s baseball that is. This six-part historical drama takes a look at soccer in England. Standardized by the Football […]

“Eleven thousand heinous crimes are reported every year in Delhi. Prevention is nearly impossible since half the police force are stuck on traffic duty… The city looks away because it has to. Because it always has. But once, something happened which made it stop. The eyes of the entire world turned to Delhi.” So says […]

Guest writer Linda Richardson gives her review of a series based loosely on a novel by American writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) and executive produced by Ridley Scott, who directed “Blade Runner” from another of Dick’s 44 novels. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE ♦♦♦♦½ If you grew up in the decades following World War […]

Because TV Thursdays now appears regularly, today’s post will be the final of four annual lists of recommendations. In 2020 Glen (a fussy viewer) and I may have turned off as many series as we watched, including several praised by TV critic John Doyle of The Globe and Mail. Still, the following shows on Netflix, […]

Glen and I do not really follow the Royals. We don’t tune in to the Queen’s annual Christmas message, her 64th televised one tomorrow. Didn’t watch the fairytale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981 or her mournful funeral in 1997. We’re not au courant about Prince Harry and Meghan or Prince Andrew, […]

Watching a Korean drama exercises our minds as we try to speed read the long subtitles flashing across the screen and struggle to become acquainted with characters whose triple names can confuse. We learned the family name precedes the first name; almost half of South Koreans bear a family name of Kim, Lee or Park […]

After a reader suggested I write about the importance of television viewing in our later years, I began publishing a list in January of Glen’s and my favourite TV series of the year. We enjoy programs for the conversations they stimulate, between us as well as among family and friends. Such exchanges often influence my opinion […]