For anyone that has missed Sex and the City as much as I have, I give you Nobody Wants This, a series with all the wit, relationship drama, female bonding and journeying 
through the dating hellscape that Sex and the City offered, but with—gasp—more romance. But, thankfully, the same amount of alcohol.
The series is called Nobody Wants This and it’s on Netflix, and it stars Kristen Bell as a somewhat shallow podcaster who falls in love with a sweet but unconventional rabbi, played by Adam Brody. It’s a classic star-crossed romance, done with panache and humor, anchored by the charm and chemistry of Bell and Brody. It’s very L.A.-centric, as it’s shot and set in Los Angeles (those who know Eagle Rock will be very much at home) and is incredibly laid-back and depicts one of those only-in-Hollywood fantasy lands where nobody is ugly and nothing is bad, but giving yourself into it is part of its magic. The New York of Sex and the City ignored all the bad things, too, it’s LA’s turn to be perfect, darn it.
In 1971, English author Frederick Forsyth published a political thriller about a professional assassin hired to kill the President of France Charles de Gaulle. The book was called The Day of the Jackal and was a huge hit—no pun intended. In 1973, a film adaptation was released, starring Derek Jacobi and directed by Fred Zinnemann, and it, also, was hugely popular. The 1997 film titled The Jackal, however, starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, shares pretty much only the word “jackal” and the occupation of the main character with the original Forsyth novel, as the filmmakers just wanted to make a movie about a professional assassin who was really good at disguises. That movie left a lot to be desired, but it resurrected the dormant Jackal character from the ‘70s and without it, I’m sure, we may not have the much more excellent incarnation that we do today.
those precious streaming subscriptions (especially if they hoped to charge what they wanted to charge). What they needed was something exciting, mainstream, edgy, well-made and with somewhat of a built-in name recognition. Enter the Jackal. It’s got just enough of a pop culture/literary reference and yet still feels new. Everybody loves assassins (well, in film and TV at least) and if you can throw in an Oscar-winner, it just may be a winner.
I’m a sucker for British spy thrillers, so when I saw all the ads for the new Netflix series Black Doves, I couldn’t wait to dive in. Netflix drops all episodes in a season at once, so we gobbled these up like candy. But I realized why they do that…if you stop too long to think about the story/plot, it might not taste as sweet. But those empty calories sure are yummy when they are packaged as well as this show is, so, if you like great performances, action-packed spy thrillers, and can overlook some really bad writing, Black Doves is just as much for you as it was for me.
One of the best shows that has ever been on television just ended its run and the world hardly noticed. 
counts. The show was co-created by Jermaine Clement and Waititi, based on their 2014 film of the same name. In adapting the film into a series, they add the familiar (and overused?) trope of having the story be filmed by a documentary crew, the same narrative trick (crutch?) used by shows like The Office and Modern Family, which allows the audience to get an outsider’s point-of-view of the characters and the stories. 
It’s been almost a year since the last episode aired of season five of Fargo, the best crime drama on television since Breaking Bad, and I miss it every day. While Breaking Bad still stands as my favorite show of all time, Fargo has rapidly risen to be among my all-time faves, with season after season of crime-filled dramatic brilliance from creator Noah Hawley.
Canadian Syrup Association, who she feels is ripping off the small-town farmers in their rural Quebec town. Martindale’s character, Ruth, teams up with a bumbling security guard and a small-time mobster to try to pull off the heist, which, of course, hits multiple obstacles, including the cops, who are just a step behind them.
Law & Order, the original, AKA Mother Ship, uber producer Dick Wolf’s first and best series that birthed an entire genre and hundreds of spinoff and copycats, is FINALLY available to stream. It may seem strange that I’m so excited about this, but, trust me, this is news. 
When Southland ended in 2013, I thought I would never see another L.A. cop show that good ever again. While I was partially right—nothing, for me, still has come close to Southland as a street beat cop show—the next year, Bosch started its run, and I have to say, it comes pretty darn close. Bosch is the best set-in-Los Angeles-detective show ever, and I dare you to challenge me. 
Justified was one of those shows that was on our list forever. We had heard people talk about it, we knew we would get to it, but it just never happened. Then the pandemic came and we needed a show to binge that had a lot of episodes. We said, ok, now’s the time. 
Most of you know my love of Germany, so I most certainly wasn’t going to ignore AppleTV+’s first original German-language series, which just dropped last month. I’m happy to report that Where’s Wanda? is a delightfully genre-bending puzzle of a series in the style and tone of Bad Sisters and Bodkin, but with all the charming German eccentricities I was hoping for—and not a Nazi or World War II reference anywhere in sight.
the day of the town’s biggest holiday. Wanda’s parents, Carlotta and Dedo, played by Heike Makatsch and Axel Stein, are frustrated by the lack of leads the police are finding, so they take it upon themselves to investigate all their neighbors on their own by planting cameras and bugs in each house, because they absolutely believe Wanda is still alive and being held captive somewhere in their town.