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A heads-up for The Jinx, season 2. Starts with the events of the day after the broadcast of the last episode of season 1, and even though we know in the main what's happened since, it has already unearthed some rather eye-opening goings-on. Can't binge it as it's released weekly but it does feel...

I really liked S3, I expect you will too. Introduced me to Scoot McNairy who in turn led led me to Narcos. He's brilliant in everything I've seen him in. Also he's up there with 80s weather forecaster Flip Spiceland as having the Americanest name in telly.

It's very very good. Adapted from a book so there's a lovely coda; not your average drama. Gosh I've missed subtitles!

I've started "Huset" on iPlayer, with Sofie Gråbøl. I wouldn't normally post about something I hadn't watched all the way through, but after a grimly tense and unsettling first episode I had to tell someone about it. 6 x 1hr episodes. It's gonna be good...

It's the real-life aspect of it that makes you ponder doesn't it. Makes me wonder, which cartel gang member somewhere in the world, right now, is, at this moment, eating his last plateful of grilled nachos before being kidnapped and chopped to pieces in a basement. Maybe I've watched too much...

Off topic, but Boiling Point with Stephen Graham is a one-take film, set in a restaurant, and is a 90 minute tense-athon.

Oh god yes, that made me come on here last night desperately wanting to share it with someone! What makes it better for us Brits I suppose is that I and I suspect most of us have never seen any of the main-main cast before so they are just who they are on screen, and it's utterly absorbing...

I'm halfway through season 2 and it's fantastic, isn't it. There's really nothing like it. It reminds me a lot of peak British TV in the late 90s/2000s, what the likes of Jimmy McGovern ushered in, a story told so, so well, with anger and heart.

I went to see Phaedra at The National tonight. I spent the first half thinking of one of the cast, "I know that actress, who is she, this is driving me mad..." It was Mackenzie Davis! I haven't been star-struck for twenty years, but this woman - boy is she good. First professional theatre job...

... is good isn't it. Made me want to watch the film again! Which I won't just yet, 'cos I stumbled across Black Bird (Apple TV), Taron Egerton in a Dennis Lehane-true-story-inspired prison thriller, which is so much better than I expected. Taron Egerton for me is always quite slappable in a...

I offer you The Bear. Man returns from away to run his brother's restaurant/diner in Chicago. For those of you fortunate enough to have watched Halt and Catch Fire, it's very much in this style; ie. it's not about running a restaurant/start up internet company, much more about the people who run it.

This looks good - the trailer at least reminds me of Touching the Void, and Last Breath (which had a similar effect on me to yours). The drama/doc genre is superb isn't it, when done well.

Religiously got through this and as cinematically enjoyable as it was, I kinda shrugged at the end. Probably after 5 or six or whatever seasons of it, the "wow there's not been anything this good for ages" factor has worn off for me. Slap bang in the middle of the majestic Sopranos at the mo'...

I'm 4 episodes in thanks to you two - it's superb. I didn't realise it's based on a series of books so was expecting an enjoyable sugar-coated, not very challenging crime/drama romp, a bit like Bosch I suppose, but boy is it anything but. Gritty, shocking, and does the whole post-Vietnam thing...

It was me! And many others here. Oh, and the £30 you paid to Amazon for Terriers a while back, I matched in a charity donation. I never expected anyone to take my opinions here seriously enough to part with real-life money, especially since some series provoke an emotional reaction akin to...

Oh I'm so pleased you liked it. It's certainly "one of those", and spending time in all their companies was a treat, wasn't it. When I'd finished it, in mourning, I was moved enough to *geek alert* send a tweet to one of the creators, who was gracious enough to reply. A superlative story told by...

Blimey, never thought someone would actually listen to me! Hope it works out for you, and if you get to the end, can we have a brief "wow, brilliant" exchange? Ta :)

I feel your pain. The 2010s was a good moment for TV, as this list of 50 by Rolling Stone shows (Justified comes in at number 8!). Boardwalk Empire, Halt and Catch Fire, The Shield (still and forever) are similarly good epics to get sucked into if that's what you're after after Bosch again. Or...

Did you watch Watchmen? I'm on the last episode and I loved the first half of the series - the visuals are terrific, the humour, the characters (the FBI woman is a standout), the whole conspiracy-laden plotting of it, but the last few episodes have, as they moved into more superhero-logic and...

Just seen there's a whole load of podcasts too...