Television reviews – Page 3

Code of Silence– Read My Lips

Written by Diana Paul on September 1, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis) is a low-paid cafeteria worker in the London police station. One day Detective Sergeant Ashleigh Francis ( Charlotte Ritchie) watches Alison’s remarkable lip reading skills watching two police officers talk about their impending divorce in the cafeteria. Perhaps she could help in...

Under a Dark Sun (Soleil Noir) –No Sunshine and Flowers

Written by Diana Paul on August 17, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

In the opening scene of Under a Dark Sun (2025), a young French woman and her ten-year old son are running out of a house, in the middle of the night, to their packed car, driving off in a panic. Violence has taken place but the viewer does not know what happened. Alba Mazier (Ava Baya) is a single mother who, with her son...

Untamed (2025)–Wild and Dangerous

Written by Diana Paul on August 12, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Untamed (2025)–Wild and Dangerous

Untamed, a Netflix thriller filmed in the backdrop of the stunning Yosemite National Park, opens with a couple of mountain climbing tourists shocked by the sudden hurling past of a young woman’ body. National Parks Service special agent Kyle Turner (Eric Bana) is called in to be the Special Investigator into the death of the young...

Astrid et Raphaëlle–Extraordinary Attorney Woo meets Silent Witness

Written by Diana Paul on July 8, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

In the highly unusual six-season (French) PBS series, Astrid, we see an extremely perceptive woman police officer, Raphaëlle (Lola Dewaere), who is underappreciated by her colleagues–a familiar theme in current police procedurals. What makes this unique, however, is that the detective quickly surmises that a librarian working in the...

Secrets We Keep–Lies and Privilege?

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

The Danish “Nordic noir” series, Secrets We Keep (2025), centers around the disappearance of an attractive Filipino au pair, Ruby (Donna Levkovski), from a wealthy Copenhagen home. An investigation is requested by Ruby’s wealthy neighbor, Cecilie (Marie Bach Hansen). No one else in the affluent neighborhood seems to care enough to...

I, Jack Wright– ”Succession” British-style?

Written by Diana Paul on June 16, 2025. Posted in Television reviews, Travel (Domestic).

This Netflix six-episode British thriller I, Jack Wright (2025) unravels a highly dysfunctional family’s secrets and betrayals. Each member of a multi-millionaire’s overly privileged family has motivation to murder the aging septuagenarian patriarch and business tycoon, Jack Wright (Trevor Eve), found dead in the opening scene. ...