The Regime has concluded. HBO's second miniseries (well True Detective is more of an anthology series, however still short, sharp this season) of 2024.
2024 promises to be the year of the miniseries for the premium cable network. With The Sympathizer commencing next Monday on Binge.
So back to this Kate Winslet political satire miniseries. Now it's nowhere near the brilliance of Winslet's last HBO outing, Mare of Easttown.
Alongside Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, and Hugh Grant all star.
The Regime started early month, concluding this afternoon on Binge. Across the six episode run, The Regime depicts a year within the palace of a crumbling authoritarian regime. After not leaving the palace for quite some time, Chancellor Elena Vernham (Winslet) becomes increasingly paranoid and unstable and turns to a volatile soldier, Herbert Zubak, as an unlikely confidant.
As Zubak's influence over the chancellor grows, Elena's attempts to expand her power eventually result in the palace and the country fracturing around her.
The miniseries has received mixed reviews, however Kate Winslet’s performance has been singled out for praise from critics.
Now this was far from brilliant. Is HBO hanging out for 2025 to come with series like the White Lotus, Last of Us and Euphoria set to stream? I think so. At least they are not Showtime with barely any content on the horizon. Yellowjackets third season will clearly not save Showtime alone.
Either way there was a few giggles to be hard, however it was far from HBO's best when it comes to comedy.
While The Regime concludes, we eagerly await the much hyped The Sympathizer before waiting for House of Dragon's return for a shorter eight episode second season.
Wow so I totally missed a Ghostbusters film at the pictures. I saw the 2016 all female edition. However I somehow missed the 2021, Ghostbusters: Afterlife film. Well the world was going completely bat shit crazy back then!
So on a Saturday afternoon I was off to see, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
This is the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise, starringPaul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton.
With newcomers to the Ghostbusters franchise Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Emily Alyn Lind, and James Acaster.
So maybe I need to see Afterlife? Or I will just take you on today's journey. Set three years after the events of Afterlife, the veteran Ghostbusters must join forces with their new recruits to save the world in New York City from a death-chilling god who seeks to build a spectral army.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire opened late last month. With school holidays finally incoming now Easter is done, the film looks to be a success.
The sequel has grossed over $115 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2024.
Money is fine, but is it any good? Look if I am honest it felt a little all over the shop.
There was so loud school holidays brats in my session, however at times they were more entertaining than this film. The reboot, the sequel, the breathing life back into old franchises is really getting tired.
Although at the the conclusion of the film, I did hear younger members of the audience singing the OG theme song. Maybe the younger crowd will breathe new life into this franchise.
I can't pass this film as I almost nodded off a couple of times. 2 Stars.
Now as the weather finally starts to cool down, we enter the new TV quarter, Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24'. There will be loads be a load more US network TV as short post strike seasons are back. How will they fare versus tough competition from the big streaming giants. Like Apple TV+ launching huge new series almost on the weekly!
So if you want to visit all my previous lists click through the links HERE
For now my jumbo best of Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 23'/24' mega, must-see or must miss TV list below from one all the way down to ninety one. Thats a shit load of TV over the warmer months. How will I go over the cooler months?
1. Expats - Miniseries 2. Strife - Season One (AU) 3. Hijack - Miniseries 4. Total Control - Season Three/Series Finale (AU) 5. Life & Beth - Season Two 6. The Act - Miniseries 7. Prosper - Miniseries (AU) 8. Slow Horses - Seasons One - Three 9. Trigger Point - Seasons One - Two 10. C*A*U*G*H*T - Season One (AU) 11. The Newsreader - Season Two (AU) 12. Power Book IV: Force - Season Two 13. Gen V - Season One 14. Scrublands - Miniseries (AU) 15. Dr Death - Season Two 16. American Horror Stories - Season Three 17. SkyMed - Season One 18. Paper Dolls - Miniseries (AU) 19. SkyMed - Season Two 20. Bump - Season Four (AU) 21. Three Women - Miniseries 22. Smothered - Season One 23. The Real Housewives of Sydney - Season Two (AU) 24. Totally Completely Fine - Season One (AU) 25. The Bear - Season Two 26. Reacher - Season Two 27. NCIS: Sydney - Season One (AU) 28. Twisted Metal - Season One 29. Only Murders in the Building - Season Three 30. Erotic Stories - Season One (AU) 31. Found - Season One 32. After the Verdict - Miniseries (AU) 33. Vigil - Season Two 34. RFDS - Season Two (AU) 35. Heat - Miniseries (AU) 36. Faraway Downs - Miniseries (AU) 37. Population 11 - Season One (AU) 38. The Unusual Suspects - Miniseries (AU) 39. Halo - Seasons One - Two (combined between the two summers, season one binged, season two watched live weekly on Paramount+) 40. Waco: The Aftermath - Miniseries 41. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024 TV series) 42. Billions - Season Seven/Series Finale 43. Elite - Season Seven 44. Physical - Season Three/Series Finale 45. Hightown - Season Three/Series Finale 46. The Morning Show - Season Three 47. The Couple Next Door - Miniseries 48. A Murder at the End of the World - Miniseries 49. Death and Other Details - Season One/Series Finale 50. Sort Of - Season Three/Series Finale 51. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Season One 52. Fellow Travelers - Miniseries 53. The Lovers - Miniseries 54. Wolf Pack - Season One/Series Finale 55. Wilderness - Miniseries 56. True Detective: Night Country - Season Four 57. The Other Black Girl - Season One 58. Shining Vale - Season Two/Series Finale 59. Power Book III: Raising Kanan - Season Three 60. Wreck - Season One 61. Apples Never Fall - Miniseries 62. Special Ops: Lioness - Season One 63. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Miniseries (AU) 64. Feud: Capote vs. The Swans 65. Rap Sh!t - Season Two/Series Finale 66. Rabbit/Hole - Season One/Series Finale 67. Bargain (Korean: 몸값) - Miniseries 68. Wolf Like Me - Season Two (AU) 69. Lawmen: Bass Reeves - Miniseries 70. The Tourist - Season Two (sort of AU) 71. Slip - Season One 72. Ahsoka - Season One 73. Cruel Summer - Season Two/Series Finale 74. Still Up - Season One 75. Harlan Coben's Shelter - Season One/Series Finale 76. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season One 77. Upload - Season Three 78. You & Me (2023 British TV series) - Miniseries 79. Far North - Miniseries 80. Starstruck - Season Three 81. True Lies (TV series) - Season One/Series Finale 82. The Curse - Season One 83. Reservation Dogs - Season Three/Series Finale 84. Tell Me Lies - Season One 85. The Continental: From the World of John Wick - Miniseries 86. Saint X - Season One 87. Echo - Miniseries 88. Loki - Season Two 89. Fear the Walking Dead - Season Eight/Series Finale 90. Leopard Skin - Miniseries 91. ted - Miniseries
American Rust is back after originally being canceled after one season by Showtime, five months later the series was revived for a second season by Amazon Freevee.
The second season, titled American Rust: Broken Justice landed pre-Easter with all ten episodes landing at once on on Amazon Prime Video.
The second season began shooting in Western Pennsylvania in November 2022 and completed in May 2023. So there are some spoilers below the trailer. Read on at your own risk!
American Rust: Broken Justice ended on a huge cliffhanger! A hella bold move to do after already being cancelled once before!
But are enough Amazon viewers itching for a third season? I feel Showtime really lost out getting rid of this season when they did! Its not like they got many series on the go right now!
So we are not sure about the futures of the talented two leads, Del Harris (Jeff Daniels) and Grace Poe’s (Maura Tierney). Both get praise while the series itself generally gets a fairly bad wrap! Just look at Rotten Tomatoes!
This season's big bad is Russell Wolfe (Christopher Denham). But he isn't the only bad guy. Not to mention the bodies pile up and up in this second season. From an explosive package in episode one to cop shootings.
The season also features Lee (Julia Mayorga), investigative cop Steve Park (Rob Yang), Billy (Alex Nuestaedter) and Issac (David Alvarez) & Fisher (Kyle Beltran).
Former Showtime legend Luna Lauren Velez also joins as Detective Angela Burgos. She sort of creates a second love triangle in this season.
Velez is excellent in this series, real heart, real true grit!
With an additional tenth episode this run, I smashed this over Easter. It was an easy binge for me. Also nice to get into something else on Amazon.
I enjoyed this. It is a bit of poverty porn (not as bad as season one) but the characters are flawed and real.
American Rust shows us a real gritty America. Both seasons stream on Amazon right this second!
So another The Walking Dead spin-off is done and dusted. These six episode, easy to digest, smaller cast series are a hell of a lot better than the OG parent show.
The Ones Who Live is sixth spin-off and overall seventh television series in The Walking Dead franchise.
The series is set after the conclusion of the original The Walking Dead series, with Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln and Pollyanna McIntosh reprising their roles from previous The Walking Dead franchise series.
Premiering late February, on AMC and AMC+, this is a new deal for Stan in Australia to broadcast all the new The Walking Dead spin-offs. The six episodes (originally set to be a movie trilogy) is based on a love story of two people kept apart by an unstoppable power, trying to find each other. Rick Grimes & Michonne are back baby!
Andrew Lincoln is (and always will be) Rick Grimes, the former sheriff's deputy from King County, Georgia, the former leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, and Michonne's husband who was presumed to be dead. He later becomes a Sergeant Major in the CRM (Civic Republic Military). While Danai Gurira is back as Michonne: A katana-wielding warrior, former leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, and Rick's wife who left her group to search for him.
The long lost lovers are joined by Pollyanna McIntosh as Jadis Stokes / Anne: The warrant officer of the CRM, who disappeared along with Rick Grimes on a CRM helicopter. McIntosh also appeared in the spin-off series The Walking Dead: World Beyond's second season in a main role.
SPOILERS BELOW. Look out!
So how does it end? Will it remain a miniseries? Or will AMC not be able to help themselves like the previous two spin-offs? I totally reckon it will be back for a second run. SPOILERS incoming. You have been warned, twice!
Rick and Michonne return to Cascadia Base where Michonne sneaks in and finds and destroys Jadis' dossier before attending a briefing for the Frontliners where Michonne learns that the CRM intends to abduct select children from Portland before destroying the city with chlorine gas.
Rick is given the Echelon Briefing in which Beale informs him of the truth about the destruction of Omaha and the Campus Colony and the upcoming attack on Portland.
Beale reveals that, believing that humanity only has around fourteen years left, the CRM is going to declare martial law on the Civic Republic and destroy survivor communities all across the world, scavenging their resources to ensure their own survival.
Rick kills Beale with his own sword and Rick and Michonne rig up a makeshift bomb on the chlorine gas arsenal before being confronted by Thorne who had deduced the truth about Michonne's identity.
Michonne is forced to kill Thorne and the bomb and the gas kills the CRM Force Command and all of the Frontliners.
With the CRM's atrocities exposed and its command structure decimated, the civilian government takes over and reforms the CRM to aid other survivors while enabling free travel to and from the city. Rick and Michonne return home and are finally reunited with their children, Judith and R.J.
After surviving so many bombs, was the fairytale ending the end of this series? I will leave it as a miniseries for now, as we launch into Q2 streaming with Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24'!
Yes it's a little racy, but as P!nk would say, SO WHAT!
It's sort of part II for summer, with the sequel to Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 23', its the RATED Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24'.
Still thinking of a name for quarter two's telly. So stick around for that gem! It will kick off with the latest Walking Dead finale, streaming on Stan!
So the writers strike is over meaning network TV from the Divided States of America is dribbling back onto our screens. Welcome back Station 19 and All American!
I have gone rogue this month, awarding a tie for first place. I hope that is OK. One local title and one international miniseries with an Aussie lead.
I did promise the two summer RATED's coming together. That may happen this week, time pending. The post Easter week is always CRAZY!
Happy this short public holiday filled Easter 2024!
If you need more series to catch up on, below are my previous RATED's:
1. (TIE) Total Control - Season Three/Series Finale (AU) 1. (TIE) Expats - Miniseries 2. Life & Beth - Season Two 3. The Act - Miniseries 4. Prosper - Miniseries (AU) 5. Slow Horses - Seasons One - Three 6. Trigger Point - Seasons One - Two 7. Dr Death - Season Two 8. Paper Dolls - Miniseries (AU) 9. SkyMed - Season Two 10. Three Women - Miniseries (filmed by Showtime, then given away in the USA to Starz) 11. Totally Completely Fine - Season One (AU) 12. Reacher - Season Two 13. Found - Season One 14. After the Verdict - Miniseries (AU) 15. Faraway Downs - Miniseries (AU) 16. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024 TV series) 17. Population 11 - Season One (AU) 18. Hightown - Season Three/Series Finale 19. Death and Other Details - Season One/Series Finale 20. Halo - Season Two 21. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Season One 22. Wolf Pack - Season One/Series Finale 23. True Detective: Night Country - Season Four 24. Power Book III: Raising Kanan - Season Three 25. Wreck - Season One 26. Apples Never Fall - Miniseries 27. Feud: Capote vs. The Swans 28. Bargain (Korean: 몸값) - Miniseries 29. The Tourist - Season Two (sort of AU) 30. Cruel Summer - Season Two/Series Finale 31. You & Me (2023 British TV series) - Miniseries 32. The Curse - Season One 33. Echo - Miniseries 34. Leopard Skin - Miniseries 35. ted - Miniseries
