Television reviews – Unhealed Wound

His and Hers–They, Theirs Anyone?

Written by Diana Paul on February 23, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

This mini-series thriller, based on the eponymous novel by Alice Feeney, opens with the brutal murder of a young woman, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale).She was in a car late at night oin an isolated road in the back woods of Dahlonega, Georgia. Shadows of the woman being murdered, with rain clouding the...

The Asset (2025)–Collateral Damage?

Written by Diana Paul on January 18, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

The Asset (Danish: Legenden) opens with the murder of a Danish senior intelligence agent. The Danish counterintelligence now needs a replacement. Enter the strongly independent young Tea (Clara Dessau), in the middle of her Police Academy training. Tea has had a very difficult childhood with an alcoholic...

Down Cemetery Road–A Grave Drama

Written by Diana Paul on January 12, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

For fans of Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses”, the new series Down Cemetery Road is part of the Zoë Boehm series featuring a tough-as-nails Oxford-educated detective (Emma Thompson) who takes no prisoners. The other main character is a quixotic homemaker named Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson), whose husband is a cheating liar with little respect or...

My Top 25 Movies and Series of 2025

Written by Diana Paul on January 4, 2026. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

I have twenty-five films and series to recommend. These are dramas I watched in 2025, but many were produced much earlier. Some are less well-known and under-the-radar. Here are the reviews I wrote this past year with the criteria that they were available for streaming free. Of the 44 reviews I posted this year, these...

The Beast in Me–Animal Instincts?

Written by Diana Paul on December 22, 2025. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

The Beast in Me (2025), a psychological whodunit, is set in Oyster Bay, an affluent suburb in Long Island, where the uber-wealthy play with impunity from law and order. In this drama focused on the dark side of privilege, Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and affluent resident, is still riding the success...

Dickensian–A Twist on Sherlock Holmes?

Written by Diana Paul on December 14, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Dickensian–A Twist on Sherlock Holmes?

Dickensian is a 2016 BBC historical drama mini-series that borrows from several of Charles Dickens’ novels to present his characters’ personalities in a murder mystery, Sherlock Holmes style. The creator, Tony Jordan, repositions some of the most well-known characters from The Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great...