With this week’s “The Trolley Problem”, 'The Good Place' continues a subversive and structure-ripping second season with a zany and laugh-a-minute pace.
Logline: Alcoholic teen farmer Johnny’s world is turned happily upside down by a Romanian migrant.
Verdict: Independent filmmaker Francis Lee (Me Without You) makes an unlikely yet rough-and-ready love story all the more poignant in Brexit
Logline: A young woman devastated by loss falls deep into her dreamland.
Verdict: Woodshock is the debut film of fashion designers Kate & Laura Mulleavy, famous for their clothing brand, Rodarte. It follows young woman Theresa
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s whimsy & song back in season 3 premiere
Logline: Rebecca Bunch is the crazy ex-girlfriend in this musical revenge fantasy.
Verdict: Rachel Bloom’s weird, absurd, and wonderfully whimsical musical-comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend returned for its season
Alias Grace
Logline: A true-life drama done the Margaret Atwood/Netflix way.
Verdict: “If there has been a crime, people want a guilty person. Rightly or wrongly, it does not matter.” The success of Hulu’s Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s
The Good Catholic
Logline: “Don't let your love turn to hate / Right now we got to / Keep the faith / Keep the faith / Keep the faith / Lord, we got to keep the
Nathan for You
Logline: An exercise in extreme cringecore, Fielder’s project is a pitch-perfect reality TV parody show.
Verdict: When Nathan for You debuted its “Dumb Starbucks” prank, I lived in Los Feliz. As a protest for
California Typewriter
Logline: A love letter to those who prefer the analog way of life.
Verdict: Hyper-stylish commercial and music video director Doug Nichol crafts a loving visual ode to that most romantic of literary devices. Pleasurable