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dark

If you like time-travel, alternate worlds, and a complicated plot, this one is for you. It is an amazing German-language series on Netflix, and if you watch it, I highly recommend tuning the audio to German and turning on the subtitles. The audio defaults to overdubbed English and I found …

true detective

I wrapped up season 3 last week. It’s probably going to be the last season, so here’s my review. This show was unique in that each season told a completely different story with different characters. Season 1: This was probably the best season. It’s been so long since I watched …

escape at dannemora

This limited series was based on the true story of two prisoners who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY in 2015. It was quite riveting. I was surprised to hear it was directed by Ben Stiller–I would not have thought he’d have that in him. The acting …

waco

Like I said before, I’m watching everything. This was a pretty good limited series about the Waco siege back in the 1990s. I felt like the series was pretty sympathetic to the cult leader, David Koresh. But, the end result of what the government did there was rather terrible, so …

chernobyl

I’m watching everything because there’s nothing else to do. This was a pretty great miniseries on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I did find the English accents to be a bit distracting at first. I couldn’t figure out why they had a bunch of people from the UK working at a …