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LIFE ON MARS is both a time-travel fantasy and police procedural thriller. In 2006. Detective Sam Tyler is on the rise when he’s hit by a car.  He’s in a coma when, inexplicably,  he’s also vaulted back to 1973 where  he's still a detective solving cases. Tyler fights to uncover which is his actual reality.  Quirky comedy ARDE MADRID is  set in 1960s Spain in the household of actress Ava Gard...

In Derry Girls 4 teenage girls and a teenage boy band together to navigate the highs and lows of adolescence while growing up in Londonderry, Ireland in the Nineties. There are  predictable difficulties with parents and school but what adds another dimension is that they live in Northern Ireland during the political battle known as  “The Troubles” so their teen years are complicated by the chaos t...

LANDSCAPERS recounts the true story of a seemingly normal English couple, Susan and Christopher Edwards, who turn themselves into police after 15 years of hiding. Why? Susan killed her mother after seeing her mother kill her father. And Susan’s husband buried the parents in the back yard. The Edwards have been living on the parents' money ever since. But, as they  tell police, there was a ver...

In GLITCH, an Australian paranormal thriller, a group of people, having died in different years and even different centuries,  rise from their graves and return to the town where they died. How they have come back and, more importantly, why they have returned are two mysteries that need to be solved. The acclaimed Israeli political thriller FAUDA returns for a 4th season. When the  former chief of...

Listen to reviews of 3 very different suspense thrillers. SLOW HORSES, based on the best-selling book series, is an espionage mystery featuring a unit of outcast spies from Britain's respected MI5. When domestic terrorists kidnap a British/Pakistani student, this rag tag unit surprisingly seems to the only hope. THE TUNNEL, based on the acclaimed  series THE BRIDGE, pairs a quirky female Fren...

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS ( Norway ) is a quirky, feel-good romantic comedy/family drama. A 30-something pretty, whip-smart nurse must, for the umpteenth time, face her large  family's Christmas dinner without a boyfriend. In the days leading up to the feast she embarks on a mission to find true love with totally unpredictable results. The series will surprise you with its droll humor, clever plot t...

Get a review of Portuguese series GLORIA set in the 1960s, it's a political thriller that follows a Portuguese Russian spy working undercover as an engineer at a facility broadcasting anti-Soviet programming behind the Iron Curtain. A PLACE TO CALL HOME is the saga of a wealthy Australian family throughout the 50s and 60s and a newcomer to their town who has an impact on their world that no o...

Get our take on PRISONERS OF WAR ( Israel, )  the popular Israeli political thriller on which HOMELAND was based. In the Irish black comedy, BAD SISTERS,  ( Ireland) four sisters embark on a plan to kill the  handsome, charming but secretly sociopathic  husband of a fifth sister. He's not only  abusive to their sister but he's attempted to ruin each of the four sisters' lives. They...

This episode takes a look at WAKEFIELD ( Australia) , a surreal psychological drama revolving around the staff and patients who populate a psychiatric hospital perched on the edge of Australia’s spectacular Blue Mountains. In QUEEN ,( Poland)  a comedy with an edge,  the life of a successful, gay Polish tailor/ drag queen changes when a letter  arrives from the daughter he never knew existed in Po...

In THE MIRACLE ( Italy) , a small statue of the Virgin Mary makes its way to the hideout of an Italian gangster. It’s ordinary except that it’s weeping blood.  How this potentially extraordinary event affects the lives of Italy’s young prime minister, a debauched priest, a young medical researcher and everyone around them is part of the journey of this unusual series. WHO KILLED SARA  ( Mexico) re...

 CRASH LANDING ON YOU (South Korea)  is a South Korean romantic epic in which a spoiled heiress, while hang gliding in an ad for one of her many businesses, accidentally crash lands into North Korea. She's rescued by a handsome North Korean army officer. To their suprise, they fall in love and have to navigate an array of expected and unexpected obstacles. In the American comic adventure seri...

This week we look at the long-running series, LINE OF DUTY ( UK), which portrays the personal and professional challenges faced by a small unit of police officers  charged with uncovering the corruption secretly permeating various divisions of their police department.  A very different series, also focusing on a police department, is INSPECTOR MONTELBANO, ( Italy) centered on the cases faced by th...

In our inaugural episode we take a deep dive into:  SKY ROJO ( Spain) Three spirited but damaged prostitutes are trying to pay off their individual debts to a devious pimp who has trapped them into servitude in a glamorous  but destructive brothel. The trio decide to free themselves by embarking on a caper that will steal money from their pimp and allow them to escape. SISYPHUS (South Korea) A wel...

Ever wonder what to watch? Swamped with TV series product? STAY CLOSE ( UK) A young wife and mother is hiding secrets of her past from her husband. Then a murder at a local strip club reignites an investigation into a series of past murders that will entangle her in a web of lies from the past. LOSING ALICE ( ISRAEL) - A forty-something once successful female director is approached by a young woma...

REACHER (USA), is a mystery thriller featuring the mysterious Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who travels the country without any particular destination. He carries no luggage but does carry a strong moral code that compels him to right wrongs in whatever town he goes to. GIRL FROM OSLO( Norway/Israel)- A trio of teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists in the Sinai desert. The mother of on...