I REVIEWED season one and later found myself intrigued by Spider Noir—which was more purely a split genre from themes born 80 or 90 years ago. Sugar splits the genres between Sci-fi and PI— which share some roots from the middle of the last century certainly, but the scene is present day Los Angeles, not some 1950s New York (Queens). The first two episodes of the new season are just as compelling, and Farrell, as actor and narrator, continues to carry the action. I love a detective tale, and I was weaned on Sci-Fi TV, so this was easy. I am also a big fan of Colin Farrell who co-starred in Minority Report and starred in In Bruges–an outstanding film. WRH

I HAVE BEEN in Streaming Heaven with two very good series offering a second season, The Agency and Sugar.  Right now, The Agency is some of the best drama out there. With Michael Fassbender’s hypnotic screen presence, and people like Katherine Waterstone, Jody Turner-Smith, and  Richard Gere (who is even better in this season) among several others, you’re getting the cream of the crop along with a gripping storyline. The story migrates by location and the plot twists like a cyclone. WRH    

I HAVEN’T WATCHED HIM act in quite a while, but enjoyed watching Rob Lowe in an unusual but favored setting: he finds himself in the UK having known success as a chief of police in the United States and hired by a relatively small community outside London, England. It’s as if he’s solving crimes on a much more personal level and in a place that hasn’t fully applied modern investigative techniques. The show has been around for a while, but I missed it during earlier releases seven years ago. It’s not Sherlock Holmes and it’s not Columbo goes abroad, but somehow it works and it’s a short series of six episodes. I don’t know if there was a season two–doubt it.  I’d watch it if

A very long time ago, my brothers and I slept three beds across in the same room downstairs. Several times each week our father made popcorn, drank soda, and read his magazines in the kitchen at the top of the stairs.  It was a ritual of his, and my mother apparently gave him that space; he worked long days and Saturdays, too. Some nights, after we were supposed to have been asleep, we heard the sound as he shook the iron skillet across the stovetop. This while the smell of fresh-popped corn wafted down.  Occasionally one of us would creep upstairs and ask for a bowl–but we would not be asking for a bowl of just any popcorn. The kernels came from the farmers in

  THIS SERIES APPEARED TO BE of the “horror” genre when I first looked it over. I almost missed out on a great series as I have eschewed pure horror films since The Exorcist gave me nightmares way back when. There is suspense and there are moments where your pulse rate increases, yet it’s funny and not threatening to the point of discomfort. The acting is terrific (e.g. Matthew Rhys and Kate O’ Flynn), and I appreciated this genre mix more with every new episode. Widow’s Bay is a small island off the East Coast. It’s far enough away that residents born on Widow’s Bay don’t visit the mainland: it’s only a couple hours by boat, but local legend says the Island takes it very

I’VE REALLY COME TO LIKE this movie franchise (It’s more a movie and sequels than a series). Millie Bobby Brown is the name of the lead (Enola). She’s going to do a lot more and become an even bigger deal. You get Helena Bonham Carter and Henry Cavill, too. Supporting cast is solid. The writers took some license with the family Holmes history (unless there’s an original story that suggests otherwise), but I like what they do with it:  remarkable people often emerge from dysfunctional or atypical parenting. There’s a touch of irony in the fact that the stories take place during the suffrage movement in England (which may coincide with Conan Doyle’s time) while a very patriarchal franchise now spotlights the forgotten sister of the