When Amy was young, her parents limited her TV time. You can see how that worked out. Find her in Paste Magazine, Emmy Magazine, and the LA Times. She is also the VP of the Television Critics Association. Follow her at @amyamatangelo.bsky.social.
Acorn TV
Murder Before Evensong, AcornTV’s latest murder mystery, is set in the 1980s with the AIDS epidemic as a backdrop. Gay people, those diagnosed with AIDS, and those who support them and love them are ostracized and condemned. More than 40 years later, it’s hard to understand people being
Acorn TV
There’s something so comforting about a beloved star headlining a TV show. Especially when it’s been a while since they’ve taken center stage. Think Kathy Bates on Matlock; viewers are rooting for them and, by extension, their series to succeed. That feeling is even more apparent when
Disney/Hulu
While watching Washington Black, the new Hulu series that debuted with all eight episodes at once, I couldn’t shake the feeling that everyone involved felt they were doing very important work. To be clear, historical dramas, even fantastical ones like Washington Black, are important. They give the viewers context
Better Late Than Never
TV loves a maverick crime solver. You know the type. They aren’t officially a detective or on any police force. But somehow, they are experts on cracking the case. It’s not just a British trope either. Think ABC’s High Potential, where the cleaning woman with an extraordinarily
Better Late Than Never
TV is overflowing with detective dramas. Since the 2025-2026 TV season started at the end of May 2025, there has been Dept. Q and Untamed on Netflix; Ballard and Countdown on Prime Video; Code of Silence on Britbox; Smoke on AppleTV+... and that’s just the ones I can remember
BritBox
Well, well, well. The biggest surprise of the I, Jack Wright finale isn’t who killed the titular character. It’s that the whole thing ended with a “to be continued.” WHAT? Apparently, the greatest trick the devil (and Chris Lang) ever pulled was getting us to believe I, Jack
BritBox
We've only one more episode of I, Jack Wright to go, and Sally’s oh-so-cheery statement at the beginning of the penultimate episode, "Salt in the Wound," is a doozy. “It’s easy to think that everything that came out - all the greed and the
BritBox
“Every time we put our focus on one suspect, another lead would take us down another path. It was a jumble of snakes. ”That’s how DCI Hector Morgan (Harry Lloyd) sums up his investigation into the death of Jack Wright in the show’s fourth episode. And he’s
BritBox
Jack Wright (Trevor Eve) is dead as a doornail, but despite it looking like suicide, that turned out all to be window dressing. Someone murdered the family patriarch in cold blood and made it look like he took his own life, either because they believed they stood to inherit when
BritBox
And you think your family has problems? I, Jack Wright, the new series from Chris Lang (Unforgotten), kicks off with the apparent suicide of the title character (Trevor Eve), a millionaire on his third wife. As one can imagine, with that many wives, Jack leaves behind many, many confused and
BritBox
It’s always the ones you least suspect, as the season finale of Ludwig kicks off with a shocking plot twist. The previous episode ended with Holly calling Lucy, saying she needed to speak to her about her husband. But if you thought we would see that meeting, you were
BritBox
How do you solve an unsolvable puzzle? That’s the case Ludwig is trying to crack in Season 1’s penultimate episode. Ludwig and Carter are called to investigate the apparent suicide of a private school headmaster, Mr. Durose (Christopher Parramore). The case resonates with Ludwig because it’s where