Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Writers across all sections of the paper are contributing to this 20-part feature, discussing their favourite shows from 2010 – 2019 – will yours make the list? Regular Opinion contributor Emma Penney kicks us off with Netflix’s Lovesick… Lovesick first hit our screens in 2014 under […]Read More
SPOILER-FREE! Same monarchy, new faces – but are they up to the task? After two exceptionally long years, Netflix have finally released the highly anticipated third series of The Crown. The extravagant show is undoubtedly the jewel in the streaming giant’s collection of original series and focuses on the lives and dramas of the British […]Read More
They’ll be there for you… maybe… Twitter was set alight this morning at the rumours of a FRIENDS reunion special to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show, originally revealed by The Hollywood Reporter. The exclusive piece suggested that all six original stars, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David […]Read More
Apple TV+, HBO Max, Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu… are you keeping track? Entertainment giant Disney announced the entirety of its future Disney+ catalogue on Twitter last week. The thread itself was extremely lengthy at over 600 tweets, which comes as no surprise seeing as Disney+ combines not only Disney’s entire catalogue but those of […]Read More
Tonally confused and accidentally hilarious, David Michôd’s big-budget Medieval caper The King is an unbelievably silly film – and only half the cast seem to be aware of it. Starring Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V and Joel Edgerton as Falstaff, we follow King Henry/Prince Hal as he goes from binge-drinking to the battlefield, navigating […]Read More
“You ready?” The only line spoken in the trailer. And I certainly am. The previously released teaser trailer for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, featuring recurring character Skinny Pete, gave us just a tantalising taste of what was to come. If that was an amuse-bouche, then consider this the main course; with the full […]Read More
Publicly elected nice-guy of Hollywood, Paul Rudd, has taken a break from Marvel epics to star in new series Living with Yourself. The show, which co-stars Irish actress and comedian Aisling Bea (This Way Up, The Fall), was created by Timothy Greenberg and will air exclusively on Netflix on October 18th. Rudd plays Miles Elliot, […]Read More
The question is: is it human nature to be enticed by sadistic, creepy, yet charming serial killers that psychology, TV and film show us today? The truth: it’s just human nature to want to be in the know. The term ‘serial killer’ first appeared in a 1981 Times report discussing Wayne Williams, who was implicated in […]Read More
Sporting some seriously striking visuals along with some equally striking haircuts, the first trailer for David Michôd’s The King has dropped and sees Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet taking on a Shakespearian tour de force as Henry V. Co-starring and co-written by Joel Edgerton, along with support from Lily-Rose Depp, Ben Mendelsohn and Robert Pattinson […]Read More
Six years after its perfect-blue finale and four years since the inception of prequel series Better Call Saul, we are once again about to delve headfirst into the world of Breaking Bad, with sequel movie El Camino hitting Netflix in October. With whisperings of a potential film being in the works since the original series […]Read More
Netflix announced today that The Crown will return to our screens for its third series on Sunday 17th November 2019, almost two years after its second outing. The press release was accompanied with our first (albeit brief) look at Olivia Colman in action as our reigning monarch, taking on the role previously portrayed by Emmy and […]Read More
After the release of Alfonso Cuarón’s Best Picture contender Roma last year, Netflix has proved itself to be a serious contender for film distribution, if not controversial with more traditional cinephiles due to the streaming giant’s tendency to avoid movie theaters all together. Now, it’s Martin Scorsese’s turn to throw his hat into the home-media […]Read More
Animation has always been a source of joy for me. As someone with an overactive imagination and a longing to find the surreality within reality, I have always found that watching animation gave me a sense of belonging even in the most unfamiliar of territories. Often, the alien worlds of the cartoons I watch feel […]Read More
*SPOILER WARNING* For a show that so heavily features ‘the Upside Down’, the third season of Stranger Things surprisingly treads familiar ground, and not always for the better. It’s evident that the show’s formulaic structure works wonderfully for Netflix and its binge-loving audiences, but the separated character plots that are *pretends to be shocked* actually […]Read More
As soon as you see the opening Black Mirror credits, you simultaneously do and do not know what you are getting yourself in to. You know it will be dark. You know it will mess with your head. What you don’t know is how exactly it will get you there, with each episode offering new […]Read More
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