Box Sets
Looking for your next binge? Box Set reviews will tell you whether a show’s worth watching, without spoiling the end for you – a handy guide to the best TV box sets on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, DVD and more.
Puffin Rock: A kids’ series full of charm and beauty
July 30, 2016 | Nathanael Smith
Craft and artistry is evident in every frame of this bright, beautiful pre-school series.Read More
Why you should be watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
July 23, 2016 | Nathanael Smith
Each episode of this intelligently funny series is a perfectly formed musical in its own right.Read More
Why you should be watching Stranger Things on Netflix UK
July 12, 2016 | Helen Archer
Season 5, Part 1 premieres on 26th November 2025. This review was originally published in July 2016 and is based on Season 1.
From its very opening, Stranger Things is less strange than it is familiar. Written and directed by … Read More
9 reasons you should be watching Happy Valley
July 10, 2016 | Matthew Turner
Season 3 premieres on 1st January 2023.
Wherever you were in May 2014, it’s a cast-iron certainty that at some point you heard a variation on the phrase, “Oh my goodness, did you see Happy Valley last night?” The first … Read More
Why you should be watching Gilmore Girls
July 1, 2016 | Helen Archer
Before the Gilmore Girls reunion airs, it’s time to acquaint – or reacquaint – yourself with the denizens of Stars Hollow. For the newbies, the programme follows single mother Lorelei (Lauren Graham), her brainy, high-achieving daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel), and … Read More
Why The Living and the Dead should be your next box set
June 20, 2016 | David Farnor
More than your average ghost story, this creepy, character-driven drama is a pastoral horror show to savour.Read More
Why you should be watching UnREAL on Amazon Prime Video
June 19, 2016 | Helen Archer
There is something very fitting about the fact that it was Lifetime which picked up the darkly brilliant drama UnREAL last year. The natural home of the kind of output popular with predominately female viewers – from TV movies that … Read More
Why you should be watching BBC Three’s Murder in Successville
June 16, 2016 | David Farnor
This hilarious, inventive improv crime comedy series is one of the most unique things on TV.Read More
UK TV review: Detectorists
June 1, 2016 | David Farnor
Dig past the tranquil surface of this gentle comedy and there’s real treasure here. Read More
Why Scream the TV series should be your next box set
May 29, 2016 | David Farnor
Enjoyably familiar but surprisingly new, this spooky spin-off is undemanding fun.Read More
