Memory makes the heart grow fonder, or so they say. Or, at the very least, time makes you forgive some of the little things. Which may explain why, when I find myself looking back on TV shows or movies that I love, I find myself growing more fond of them in time, and forgiving them for minor things that I may have had issues with before. This is certainly evident as I was compiling my Top 25 Movies of the Century So Far list, as I was linking my reviews to my favorite movies, I found that my original reviews of these movies, all of which I have grown to absolutely love, were not all raves, much to my surprise.
So maybe it’s just easier to be more critical the first time around, or familiarity fosters a better 
sense of fairness, who knows. But it does seem that my first impressions of TV shows and movies aren’t always the lasting ones, which prompted me to go back and see if I perhaps had overestimated a show that bowled me over so much at the time, I thought it was one of the best things I had ever watched.
Well, it looks like I’m not the only one, as this brief meteor of a show, which only had two short but brilliant seasons, is still sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes nine years later, which means not a single critic has published a negative review. In over 42 reviews of the first season and 99 reviews of the second, not a single naysayer. I’m clearly not the only one who agrees Fleabag is perfect. Thank goodness.
Season two of the glorious Peacock original series Poker Face just dropped, so I figured it’s the perfect time to re-run my review of season one, which I wrote back in January, 2023, published on 
November. It seems as if the only major streaming service that hasn’t jumped on the prestige TV bandwagon is Peacock, seemingly happy to bask in its vast catalog of popular shows from NBC’s archives, in addition to churning out under-the-radar original programming marked by reality series, competition shows, and formulaic sitcoms.
For all of you who dig Australian murder mysteries, Netflix has another good one for you. The Survivors takes place in a small town in Tasmania and the difference in this series is the focus isn’t on the police, it’s on the town’s residents.
forget to mention that one of the boys who died trying to save him was his own brother, Finn. So, part of the drama that Kieran is coming home to is the fact that his mother, Verity, played by Robyn Malcolm, has never truly forgiven Kieran for being responsible for Finn’s death. And, of course, the rest of the town also blames Kieran for what happened that night, which is why he ran off to Sydney right after and hasn’t been back since. 
Well, it’s 2025, which means we’re at the quarter-century mark, so everyone is posting their lists of their favorite films from 2000-2024, so I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and add mine to the parade. 
It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when former Saturday Night Live cast members just could not get any traction at all in TV or movies after they left the iconic late-night show. There was the occasional exception, but for the most part, former SNL cast members’ careers ended up dying a slow death, despite many, many attempts at finding Eddie Murphy-like glory. In the nineties, it became somewhat of a sad joke that if you were on SNL, that meant your career had peaked.
and Ted Lasso. And we saw it with Bill Hader and a show called Barry, one of the best television shows produced in the last twenty years.