Review Day

There are no major spoilers in these reviews.

The Bear, Season One:
This dramedy about a local restaurant trying to turn into something better has a lot of shouting and tension balanced out by great relationships and breezy food porn. On Hulu.

Final Grade: B

Jungle, Season One:
In this show, people make bad choices in a mildly futuristic London and convey their emotions by rapping. It's weird enough to work so we gave it a shot. Unfortunately, all of the rapping is in the trap genre so every "monologue" starts sounding the same pretty quickly. The story takes a very weird turn after episode three and then never recovers its earlier investment in its characters. We gave up after episode 4 with just 2 more episodes to go. If you like watching offbeat experiments and saying, "That's interesting! Glad they're doing something new!" you might like this. On Amazon Video.

Final Grade: C

Reboot, Season One:
This is a fairly meta sitcom about rebooting a classic sitcom with the same actors. It leans a little to heavily into TV insider jokes, but is fun to watch and over quickly. On Hulu.

Final Grade: B-

Under the Banner of Heaven:
This limited series about a murder in a Mormon community starts incredibly strong but doesn't quite stick the landing. I felt lilke the last couple episodes kind of dawdled between reveals we already knew without any nice summation of what had come before. On Hulu.

Final Grade: B-