Cavy TV

  Rating: ★★★★★  Easily one of the best television shows of all-time. In no particular order it's up there in elite company with The Sopranos , The Wire , Mad Men and Succession . It's incredibly difficult to constantly produce and put out 5-star quality content from start to finish, season to season, especially the longer a television series goes on, and that's what the above mentioned shows do, and probably to a stronger degree only The Sopranos , Mad Men and Better Call Saul . I was one of the earliest proponents to throw out Better Call Saul >>> Breaking Bad claims, and I'm glad to see it's becoming a more popular belief amongst the general culture. For those of you who might not get this comparison, these two shows are related in the same fictional universe, and showrunner-writers Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are behind both of them. Don't get me wrong Breaking Bad , despite its overrated awards-darling status, was still a great show, and a l...

  Rating: ★★★★  There's a lot to love about The Boys . Awesome, colourful and a wide-range of intriguing characterisations that all revolve around the central figure of Homelander, whose actor, Antony Starr, constantly puts in knockout performance after knockout performance, especially from season 2 onwards. Its anti-superhero spiel is a quite obvious yet still genius masterstroke in this superhero era of movies and TV. In addition, it brings more relevance and emphasis to its satire by incorporating the current state of affairs and spectacle of real-life American politics into its fictional storyworld.  But easily the best trait of this show is its daring trait of pushing the boundaries in terms of violence, gore, visual creativity and conventional storytelling subversion. It is perhaps the best show at doing exactly that since the best days of Game of Thrones . And also, its comedy pulls off a nice balance between sappy/corny and absolutely hilarious - with surprising b...