“In spite of its overfamiliar rhythms and fancy murder-show aesthetics, there are elements of Under the Banner that achieve something distinct and idiosyncratic. For the most part, though, it is one of those series superficially intended to alarm and overwhelm, a true-crime adaptation that should rattle us to our core and make us reexamine our assumptions about violence and masculinity, etc., etc., etc. In practice, I suspect much of its audience will watch for opposite reasons: the weird comfort of the dark murder show and the particular satisfaction of witnessing an unusually heinous crime in a remote, long-ago place and time. Read More...
Below Deck Med has returned for its fifth series with a line-up of returning stars and new additions.
The Bravo series follows a crew on a 184-foot superyacht around the Spanish island of Mallorca while they live and work together. Plus, there is the occasional drama of heartbreaks and fallouts between the cast members.
Some of the crew members are former captains, while others have worked in yachts before. The challenge here is the combination of different personalities and tensions over leadership and management. Read More...