G.L. Ford

Nov 14, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | G.L. Ford |Stephen Garrett

Netflix show trades the thrill of a Mars expedition for soapy backstory

Sep 12, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | G.L. Ford

Now four episodes into its second season, Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power continues its baffling mix of attempts at Tolkien-diehard fan-service and utterly uncanonical plot-points.

Aug 13, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | G.L. Ford

One thing that Netflix’s The Decameron series has going for it, at first glance, it’s that it’s unique. Based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s book of the same name, published in 1300s Italy, it has plenty of elements we’ve seen in other shows: there’s a plague, from which the main characters are trying to escape. We’ve seen that in anything from The Last Ship to The Walking Dead. There are a lot of lords and ladies giving themselves over to the urges of the flesh, as in The Great or The Tudors.

Aug 13, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | G.L. Ford

Netflix’s Black Plague comedy wishes it were half as bawdy as its 14-century source material

Jun 28, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | G.L. Ford

I asked it before, and I’ll ask again: who is The Bear for? Going by the respective Tomatometer scores, the third season, which launched the other days, is more for critics than for your average home viewer, which seems about right. Critics watch a lot of TV. They must crave novelty. And that first episode, “Tomorrow,” certainly is unusual in many ways. The problem is, it’s wretched.