A sombre and haunting experience awaits those who walk The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In what is easily the most emotionally arresting television event of 2025, visionary Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel adapts Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel into a sweeping, harrowing five-part miniseries that confronts the brutality of war, the transcendence of love, […]
Television Recaps
‘The Last of Us’ – ‘Future Days’ – Review
Making a return to the post-apocalyptic world based on the popular Playstation game franchise, The Last of Us returns for season two, making its return to Kiwi screens thanks to SKY and NEON’s partnership with HBO on April 14. After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who […]
‘The Last of Us’ – Season One – Review
Few things get us more hyped than a solid video game adaptation, and HBO’s The Last of Us isn’t just solid—it’s a stone-cold masterpiece. A gut-wrenching, pulse-pounding, and deeply emotional journey, this series takes everything that made the original game a genre-defining experience and elevates it to a whole new level of prestige television greatness. […]
‘The White Lotus’ – ‘Killer Instincts’ – Review
The storm is nearly upon us, and in Episode Seven of The White Lotus Season Three, aptly titled ‘Killer Instincts’, we get one hell of a prelude to what promises to be a scorching finale. Mike White sharpens the blade of tension, and with each calculated stroke, he slices deeper into his characters’ souls, delivering […]
‘Industry’ – Season Two – Review
Buckle up, folks, because Industry Season Two kicks things into high gear and doesn’t let up for a second. HBO’s fiendish finance drama returns with more ambition, more ruthlessness, and a whole lot more chaos as Pierpoint & Co.’s young, hungry analysts dive headfirst into a world of high-stakes trading, office politics, and personal self-destruction. […]
‘The White Lotus’ – ‘Denials’ – Review
Just when you thought The White Lotus couldn’t get any more depraved, any more unhinged, or any more deliciously scandalous, Mike White drops Episode Six, ‘Denials’ like a nuclear bomb of psychological chaos, and it’s a fucking masterpiece of twisted, transgressive television. In the wake of the Full Moon festivities, Laurie feels deceived by Jaclyn, […]
‘Industry’ – Season One – Review
If you like your television bold, provocative, and unrelenting, then HBO’s Industry is the show for you. From the minds of Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, this high-finance drama is an intoxicating, adrenaline-fueled ride through the cutthroat world of London investment banking, where only the strongest—and most ruthless—survive. With its razor-sharp writing, fearless performances, and […]
‘The White Lotus’ – ‘Full-Moon Party’ – Review
Strap in and get ready to sweat, because Episode Five of The White Lotus Season Three, ‘Full Moon Party’, is a delirious, decadent, and downright delicious explosion of lust, neon, and emotional carnage, and it’s the best damn episode of the season so far. Mike White turns the heat up to full blast, and what […]
‘The Pitt’ – Review
When it comes to dynamic television events, Max continues to deliver at the top of the class, and one of 2025’s most breathtaking watches has been the all-on-the-line medical drama, The Pitt. And for good reason, as this relentless narrative takes you inside the pressure cooker environment of modern medicine, it’s a watch that will […]
‘The White Lotus’ – ‘Hide or Seek’ – Review
Things are heating up in paradise, and The White Lotus Season Three continues its sun-drenched descent into madness with Episode Four, ‘Hide or Seek’. And let’s be honest, Mike White is fully unspooling the yarn now — scandal, seduction, and soul-shaking secrets are spilling out like spilled rosé on a teakwood deck. It’s wild, it’s […]