Cavy TV

  Rating: ★★★★½ So after really enjoying the spectacle of season 1 but ultimately finding the overall commentary on the themes of white privilege and class status inconclusive, HBO's The White Lotus , returns for a second season with similar themes, a similar setting at a fancy hotel (albeit this time in gorgeous Sicily, Italy) but with different characters and storylines.  The lack in messaging I found in season 1 became more clear to me in this season's execution on all technical levels. Ultimately - I think - creator/showrunner Mike White is not so concerned about delivering satire for satire's sake or social justice, more so than just showing the raunchiness at the core of humanity and the system we find ourselves in. He isn't necessarily worried so much about pointing fingers, as much as just exploring the inner psychology (manipulation, deception, and lots and lots of sexuality) of the characters in such a scenario - and I can appreciate that, and thus can finally...

  Rating: ★★★★★  So after somewhat heavily criticising season 3, whether rightfully or mistakenly so, FX's Atlanta gave me a beautiful surprise for season 4 - the show's best season, in my opinion. It's completely strong throughout, producing some of the show's most captivating, stimulating and emotional episodes. It's an amalgamation of all of the good aspects of the show in one entire season - and I couldn't be happier for Donald Glover and his team on this. It will definitely go down as one of the most refreshing and ambitious shows of the 2010s in its entirety just because of its nature and execution. Personally, I still would not put it in my tier 1 of excellent TV shows, mainly just so out of personal taste which caters towards more conventional procedural dramas. Still, I would say the rewatch factor on this show is big, because going forward you can just put on a random episode and completely enjoy it. It was definitely an incredible trip into this absu...

    Rating: ★★★★    House of the Dragon , a prequel to the worldwide sensation Game of Thrones , revolves around the story of heirdom of House Targaryen about 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, one half of the two central figures of Game of Thrones .    I was impressed by House of the Dragon right from the first episode as it immediately captured all of the aspects that made Game of Thrones so good for its first four seasons. The storytelling was detailed and efficient, perhaps even more so than the beginning of Game of Thrones , because here not so many characters and houses gets thrown at us from the get-go. This level of storytelling is maintained and heightened up until episode 5, and then after that, *slight spoiler alert* the show takes a huge time jump, and along with that, actor changes for some of the characters, including the two main female characters that will end up fighting for the throne - Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Highto...

  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...

Rating: ★★½ Station Eleven is an apocalyptic/disaster drama series that centres around an instantaneous outbreak of a very deadly flu-virus. Based on a novel of the same name published in 2014, and from my understanding, which stands under correction, already put into works for the TV series before the actual outbreak of our real-world Covid-19 pandemic. With a similar co-incidental nature, the story of Station Eleven also teases some sci-fi/fantasy elements that seem to hint at a full circle ethereal force that is behind all of the happenings in this story. Fascinating as it may sound, and believe me, it did so too for me as well prior to starting the show; I could only last 3 episodes. The show takes on a high concept mystery approach which did not do enough for me in those 3 episodes to intrigue me or feel anything for it. The show is all over the place with multiple characters and timelines, and just does not offer any centre of gravity emotionally or thematically. Some of the acti...

  Rating: ★★★★  Just get passed the first episode. You might be liable to find it very cringe, and end up thinking this is just another "insert inclusivity" Twitter-lingo Generation-Z show after that first episode. But believe me, just give it one more chance and you will notice how all the intriguing dramatic angles pick up from the second episode onwards. The Sex Lives of College Girls does not do anything special in form or technicality to change the game or challenge the status quo, in fact, it falls pretty neatly into the camp sorority subgenre. But it does so with a lot of heart and realism. The realities of the challenges that freshman college students face are put on display, and even if the main focus is on the lives of the four main girls, the show does well enough to add and explore colourful characters from all spectrums of identity, and lays good enough foundations to promise to do so more in the already-confirmed second season. The main characters are Kimberly (...