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Monday, 25 May 2020 09:02

Gangs that rob and run banks, Spanish TV and Netflix

Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues the series on streaming TV with a critical look at Money Heist, and the machinations of Netflix The fourth season of Alex Pina’s Money Heist was released on Netflix last month, and his new show White Lines premiered on the same service in May. There is a…

Money Heist

Monday, 18 May 2020 11:15

Canadian TV series, Quibi, surveillance capitalism and mental junk food

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his series, looking at how Cardinal inverts the usual cliched story of individual serial killers to suggest the shared gult of capitalists; how Tribal suggests bias against First Nations people in the justice system in Canada; and points to the links between the new Quibi Turnstyle format…

Tribal Cardinal

Wednesday, 13 May 2020 08:11

Home Before Dark and Quibi

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his series with a look at Home Before Dark and Quibi It's the first masterful series from Apple TV+, after a horrible slip out of the gate with the clumsy, awkward The Morning Show. Home Before Dark details the efforts of a nine-year-old reporter to get to…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 05 May 2020 13:30

ZeroZeroZero and the Global Drug Trade / #BlackAF and Black Affluence

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues his series with a look at ZeroZeroZero and the Global Drug Trade, and #BlackAF and Black Affluence Image: Zero, Zero, Zero: Mexican Police in the global drug trade ZeroZeroZero, a Sky, Canal + and Amazon series based on the Roberto (Gomorrah) Saviano book, has two things on…

Gomorrah Gangs of London

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 05 May 2020 09:26

Stream it, skip it or revolutionise it? Series TV post-Covid

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe considers post-Covid-19 possibilities for a more progressive, artist-led approach to film and television series. Image from Superstore Before quarantine when a phrase like “shelter in place” seemed like something out of the apocalyptic future forecast in The Walking Dead, the main issue in film and television was how…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 28 April 2020 11:01

'Babylon Berlin' and German fascism; 'Superstore' and the age of Amazon

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews more series TV, from Germany and from the U.S. Image above: military fascists in Weimar Berlin Season three of the German megaseries Babylon Berlin continues the exploration of the tensions in the Weimar Republic, as it moves inexorably toward its demise and its replacement by fascism. The…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:02

Ozark, the disappearing middle class, Freud and Freudians

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe on the Global Television Beat discusses some TV series dealing with middle-class life under pressure in Ozark, and depictions of Freud and Freudians in Vienna Blood and Freud The third season of the Netflix popular and critical hit Ozark has the show going ever darker. It’s beginning to…

Tuesday, 07 April 2020 09:45

How predatory profit-making warps TV series: Bro on the Global TV beat

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his series reviewing streamed TV series, and discusses some of the ways the capitalist system affects their availability and content The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma. It’s really a deeply ecological series, posing as a horror/mystery thriller. The…

Thursday, 02 April 2020 09:28

Twisting the truth: Bro on the Global TV beat

Written by Dennis Broe

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As more people have to stay home and watch TV, Dennis Broe reviews some current TV series from the U.S., Britain and Iceland, showing how they both expose and conceal real social and economic injustice The best network series in what might be a season cut short by the coronavirus…

For Life The Stranger The Valhalla Murders Netflix Proven Innocent

Tuesday, 24 March 2020 11:06

Fend for Yourself and Get Greedy: 'Bad Banks' and Global Financial Misbehaviour

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Dennis Broe on the Global Television Beat, Episode 4 Most presciently these days with the outbreak of the Coronavirus and the collapse of the financial markets, the German powerhouse series Bad Banks opened Season One with the story of a run on Germany’s third largest bank. Equally prescient was the…

Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:03

'Taken Down' and the underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Bro on the Global TV beat

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe presents Episode 3 of his series on TV series First it was called the Celtic Tiger, and then the Celtic Phoenix. The rise of Ireland to a European economic powerhouse was fuelled initially by a housing boom, which then crashed in the wake of the bursting of the…