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How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Season 1
4.8 feature score
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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Season 1
4.5 feature score
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Vladimir, Season 1
13 supporting reviews
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Running Point, Season 2
4.1 overall score
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Rather than recreating the Troubles directly, the series brings their cultural aftereffects into the present through memory, language, borders, Catholicism, and inherited caution. Reviewers praised that contemporary framing for being...
Pros: character consistency, cast chemistry
Cons: cliffhanger effectiveness, season length
One critic frames the series as part of a wider media-access issue, where competing streamers can preserve contested information that a studio biopic omits. That gives the show a broader...
Pros: directing quality, modern political framing
Cons: value for money, family friendliness
Its focus on women reassessing marriage, standards, and romantic expectations gives the supernatural premise a pointed contemporary edge.
Pros: special effects quality, soundtrack quality
Cons: screenplay quality, series finale quality
The identity-focused material is woven into Will and Nikki’s friendship with a light touch, extending themes that became more explicit in the live-action series.
Pros: world-building, production design
Cons: plot clarity, realism
The class and power-dynamics framing gives the romance more consequence and is often praised for making the season feel more thoughtful than a simple fairy tale.
Pros: rewatch value, supporting cast performance
Cons: CGI quality, continuity
The strongest notices praise the show for treating #MeToo, power, and generational conflict as morally complicated rather than binary. Others found the cancel-culture framing dated, shallow, or too eager to...
Pros: cinematography, production design
Cons: cliffhanger effectiveness, character consistency
The season’s gender, workplace, privilege, and women-in-sports ideas resonate, but several themes surface only briefly before the comedy moves on. Some topical jokes also age poorly.
Pros: media scrutiny portrayal, season finale quality
Cons: cancellation satisfaction, product placement
The present-day political framing is the most debated recurring trait. It can give the founding story urgency, but it can also feel aggressive, heavy-handed, distracting, or too reliant on contemporary...
Pros: production design, bingeability
Cons: modern political framing, plot originality
One critic pushes back on the season’s idealized small-business Americana and its dismissive treatment of city life, finding the worldview overly nostalgic.
Pros: supporting cast performance, acting quality
Cons: character consistency, screenplay quality