Agatha Christie adaptations tend to lean heavily on tweeds, fog, and characters of a certain age. Tommy and Tuppence, BritBox's latest Christie series, throws most of that out the window and is considerably more fun for it. This Tommy and Tuppence review finds the show doing something …
The Lady BritBox Review: The True Crime Drama About Sarah Ferguson’s Dresser
The Lady one of the more unsettling true crime dramas streams this spring. BritBox's soapy series opens inside Buckingham Palace, reimagining the real case of Sarah Ferguson's murderous assistant dresser. Fergie (Natalie Dormer) hired Jane Andrews (Mia McKenna-Bruce), a young, suicidal woman …
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Kicking A** After Fifty – a Punk Rock Celebration!
By Anne Brodie Ladies over forty, there’s finally a highly entertaining series aimed squarely at us and boy does it hit! Right in the heart and brain. The Riot Women concerns four women, empty nesters, in different marital places and at loose ends as to how to re-ignite their lives. They are …
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Shetland Returns in Truimph for Season 10
By Anne Brodie The moodiest of moody murder mysteries, the original series Shetland now on BritBox enters its tenth season with the deeply shocking murder of an elderly woman on a remote, isolated island farm. Septuagenarian Eadie (Maria MacDonell) is found dead by neighbour Colin, a gruesome …
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Trials of a Civilized Woman
By Anne Brodie Apple Tree Yard, released theatrically in 2017 is now available as a series well worth resurrecting. Sure, there are problems with pacing and our changing feelings about the characters, but hang on – the slow burn is ideal, things feel lifelike and resonant and at the en when we …