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Mr. Robot : follows Elliot – a Cyber Security engineer by day / social vigilante hacker by night – as he’s recruited by a shady anarchist called ‘Mr Robot’. Firstly, the shows gambles e...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2018/03/08/mr-robot/

Goliath: a formerly great (now-down-and-out) lawyer lands a case against his old firm and their biggest client; but his life suddenly takes a turn for the even worse. While the premise is nothin...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2017/01/09/goliath/

Strike Back: Shadow Warfare – when an undercover Section 20 agent is executed in cold blood Scott and Stonebridge set their sights on the killer and his terrorist organization. For this first t...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/11/02/strike-back-shadow-warfare/

Vice Principals: when a school principal retires and the vice principals are passed over for a promotion they form an unlikely tag team to take their new boss down. Not unlike most Danny McBride ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/10/28/vice-principals/

Jean-Claude Van Johnson: what if the ‘rubbish’ straight to DVD movies JCVD made in the between the bigger films were just cover for his super-agent alter ego to carry out real black ops ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/10/19/pilot-jean-claude-van-johnson/

Strike Back: Vengeance (Season 3) – when a billionaire acquires four nuclear triggers in order to re-shape Africa, only section 20 can stop him. Continuing with the UK/US collaboration, this ta...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/07/27/strike-back-vengeance/

Line of Duty (Seasons 1 & 2): police drama based on an Anti-Corruption unit and their internal affair investigations on potentially crooked coppers. The show’s biggest strength is that the main...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/05/04/line-of-duty/

The Night Manager: a hotel manager is recruited by the British Gov to infiltrate a ruthless arms dealer’s inner circle. I can’t remember the last time the BBC threw this much money, stars, a...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/03/29/the-night-manager-bbc-amc-hiddlestone-james-bond-john-le-carre/

Deutschland 83: an East German foot soldier is sent to the West as an undercover spy to monitor the military, NATO, and carry out bespoke missions. I usually avoid lazy comparisons, but for simpl...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/03/18/deutschland-83-walter-presents-channel-4/

The Newsroom (Season 1): a news team bring their show back to old-school and trustworthy coverage of the stories that really matter – which proves to be a controversial decision for the network...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/02/26/the-newsroom-hbo-aaron-sorkin-jeff-daniels/

Archer Season 6 : Another year, and another season of FX’s show Archer has come and gone. While Season Six suffers from a tiny dip in overall quality, it places a lot more emphasis on witty c...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/12/11/archer-season-6-callbacks-jokes-running-gags/

Fargo (Season 1): when a contract killer ends up in their small town he changes the lives of an insurance salesman, police woman, and grocery tycoon forever. This does well to instantly match up ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/10/20/fargo/

Game of Thrones (Season 1): several noble families with royal ties feud over the right to rule all seven kingdoms in a medieval-ish fantasy epic. One year prior, Spartacus was balls deep in ru...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/06/18/game-of-thrones-season-1/

Justified: The Final Season (Season 6) –  Old-school kick-ass US Marshall Raylan Givens tries to put his lifelong nemesis Boyd Crowder behind bars before he gets re-posted to Miami. I didn�...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/06/08/justified-season-6/

Danger 5 (Season 2): the team of global super spies are re-united, this time in the 1980s, to stop another of Hitler’s quests for world domination. It’s soon apparent that this is – parado...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/04/10/danger-5-season-2/

Danger 5 (Season 1): a team of Allied super-spies are tasked with stopping Hitler’s various advances in a 1960s interpretation of WWII. With a premise like that, you’d expect the show to be a...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/03/02/danger-5/

Orphan Black (Season 1) : When her doppelganger commits suicide a con artist tries to steal her identity; but gets way more than she bargained for. I’d class this as ‘Sneaky Sci-Fi’ – it ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2015/01/07/orphan-black/

Archer is one of those great shows where the more you watch, and re-watch it, the more you appreciate and pick up on the obscure and flat moments that you didn’t ‘get’ first time round. Her...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/09/10/9-more-running-gags-from-archerarcher-vice/

As a British male under 40, there are very few things that unite almost everyone in this demography – a love for Peep Show, is one of those things. To those unfamiliar, it’s a British sit-co...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/08/01/peep-show-britains-favourite-comedy/

After five series’ (and renewed for a sixth) this show is obviously a big hit in the ‘States, but The Good Wife (TGW) in an unsung hero of the UK TV schedules – big props to Channel 4 and M...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/07/25/why-the-good-wife-is-the-best-show-on-tv-right-now/

Strike Back: Project Dawn (Season 2) (Mild Spoilers): following on from the action-heavy British mini-series. Sky TV teamed up with Cinemax (aka skinemax) for season two, and as if by magic there...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/05/02/strike-back-project-dawn/

Arrested Development (Season 3): Michael Bluth is still trying to keep his dysfunctional family together – and they’re doing their best to screw everything up. This series coasts a little mor...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/03/17/arrested-development-3/

Hunted (Season 1): 1 year after a botched murder attempt secret agent Alex Kent must find out who betrayed her, whilst carrying out a new mission for her private contract company. The production ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2014/01/15/hunted/

Strike Back (Season 1): When he takes the blame for a failed mission, Spec Ops soldier John Porter is kicked out of the SAS, but re-hired seven years later to catch a familiar face. After the bri...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/12/09/strike-back/

Dexter (Season 1): Miami’s top blood-splatter expert has a nice little hobby of dispensing the city of its criminals that the justice system spits back out. I know it’s the first season and e...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/10/16/dexter/

Arrested Development (Season 2): with George Bluth on the run, the family must march on without him, and Michael must keep the Bluth Company – and his family – under control. This is my ...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/10/01/arrested-development-2/

Arrested Development (Season 1): when the CEO of the Bluth Company gets jailed for fraud (and light treason), one son must step up and take charge while the rest of the dysfunctional family try t...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/09/02/arrested-development/

Breaking Bad (Season 4): The pressure’s turned up even higher as Walter White and his protégé Jessie Pinkman play a dangerous game of tactics with Mexico and ABQ’s top drug kingpins. This i...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/05/30/breaking-bad-season-4/

For those that don’t yet know about this piece of TV gold, Archer is a smart, fantastically written, genuinely funny and raunchy animated adult comedy. It follows the world’s deadliest secret...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/05/21/the-9-best-running-gags-in-archer/

Sons of Anarchy: follows a group of Californian outlaw bikers as their gang is squeezed by rivals, the cops, the feds, and themselves. The main story lies with Jax, the second-in-command of the g...

https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2013/04/15/sons-of-anarchy-season-1/