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The Long Bright Dark: True Detective, Season One (Nic Pizzolatto & Cary Joji Fukunagua, HBO, 2014)
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  • Apr 5, 2021
  • 4 min

The Long Bright Dark: True Detective, Season One (Nic Pizzolatto & Cary Joji Fukunagua, HBO, 2014)

Hauntingly bleak and austere, HBO’s existential detective procedural is a vivid, macabre account of cult conspiracy in the marshy...
Mr Robot (Sam Esmail, USA Network, 2015-1019)
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  • Feb 4, 2021
  • 5 min

Mr Robot (Sam Esmail, USA Network, 2015-1019)

A taut, erudite character study, Mr Robot is a brilliantly realised dissection of corporate Americana Since the release of Martin...
Russian Doll (Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne & Amy Poehler, Netflix, 2019)
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  • Nov 12, 2020
  • 4 min

Russian Doll (Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne & Amy Poehler, Netflix, 2019)

Nadia Vulvokov is celebrating. Hunched over an ornate washroom basin, she stares blankly at the bathroom mirror and into the camera. From...
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