Misfits (2009) Review: Superpowers for the Wrong Kids
★★★★☆
Misfits is the anarchic British series about young offenders on community service who gain superpowers in a storm. Filthy, funny and brilliant, then uneven.
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★★★★☆
Misfits is the anarchic British series about young offenders on community service who gain superpowers in a storm. Filthy, funny and brilliant, then uneven.
★★★★☆
MobLand is Paramount+'s London gangster saga with Tom Hardy as the fixer for a crime family run by Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Pulpy, mean and very watchable.
★★★★☆
Money Heist is Spain's global hit about the Professor and a crew in Dalí masks taking over the Royal Mint. Pulpy, addictive and overstretched in its later parts.
★★★★½
Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo sends a modern woman into a Goryeo court of rival princes, and grows into one of the most wrenching K-drama romances of its era.
★★★★☆
Moonlit Reunion is a 38-episode Chinese fantasy romance pairing a half-demon guardian with a demon slayer, a costume drama built on secrets that mostly pay off.
★★★★½
Move to Heaven follows two trauma cleaners sorting the belongings of people who died alone, a 10-episode Korean drama that turns each case into a small elegy.
★★★★½
Moving is Kang Full's 20-episode Korean superhero saga about gifted teenagers and the parents hiding them, a family drama that happens to fly, heal and fight.
★★★★☆
Mr Bates vs The Post Office dramatises the Horizon scandal in four episodes, a plainly made but furious ITV drama whose impact reached far beyond television.
★★★★½
Mr. Queen puts a brash modern chef inside the body of a Joseon queen, a 20-episode Korean farce with sharp palace politics and a star turn from Shin Hye-sun.
★★★☆☆
Ms. Rachel brings Rachel Accurso's toddler songs and speech practice from YouTube to Netflix: gentle and effective for small children, but narrow as television.
★★★½☆
Mujhe Pyaar Hua Tha is a 32-episode Pakistani love triangle about a confession that comes too late, powered by Wahaj Ali and Hania Aamir but padded by its length.
★★★★☆
My Demon pairs a powerless demon with a chaebol heiress in a glossy 16-episode Korean fantasy rom-com, lifted by Kim Yoo-jung and Song Kang's easy chemistry.
★★★½☆
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty is a 16-episode Korean campus rom-com about a student judged for her plastic surgery, lighter than its themes but sharper than its logline.
★★★★☆
My Love from the Star pairs a 400-year-old alien with a vain top actress in a 21-episode Korean fantasy rom-com, powered by Jun Ji-hyun's fearless comic lead.
★★★★★
My Mister is a slow, hushed Korean drama about a weary engineer and a debt-crushed young woman, and one of the finest television series Korea has produced.
★★★★☆
My Name is an eight-episode Korean revenge thriller about a young woman who goes undercover in the police for a drug lord, driven by Han So-hee's ferocious lead.
★★★★½
Narcos chronicles the DEA's war on Colombia's cocaine cartels across three seasons, a propulsive Netflix crime drama anchored by Wagner Moura's Pablo Escobar.
★★★☆☆
Neighbors is a six-episode HBO documentary series about real American neighbour feuds, sharply observed and often absurd, but more exhausting than illuminating.
★★★★☆
Never Have I Ever is Mindy Kaling's four-season Netflix comedy about a grieving Indian-American teenager, funny and specific even when its love triangle loops.
★★★★★
Nirvana in Fire follows a frail strategist who returns to the capital under a new name to right an old injustice, a Chinese court epic of rare intelligence and craft.
★★★★☆
Normal People adapts Sally Rooney's novel into 12 intimate episodes about two young people in Ireland, lifted by Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones's remarkable pairing.
★★★★☆
One Cent Thief follows a debt-crushed bank clerk who skims a cent from every account, a brisk two-season Malaysian crime thriller led by a sympathetic Syafiq Kyle.
★★★★☆
Netflix's live-action ONE PIECE turns Eiichiro Oda's pirate manga into a bright, big-hearted adventure series, carried by Iñaki Godoy's irresistible Luffy.
★★★★☆
Orange Is the New Black begins with one woman's prison sentence and grows into a sprawling, funny and furious ensemble drama across seven seasons on Netflix.