WandaVision: Episode 1 & 2
by Ryan Silberstein, The Red Herring
The first two episodes of WandaVision treat the classic American artform of the sitcom as something to be replicated, to delightful effect.
Year of the Rabbit
Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley
Directed by Ben Taylor
Starring Matt Berry, Freddie Fox and Susan Wokoma
Running time: Six episodes totaling about 2 hours and 20 minutes
Content warning: swears and occasional gory, gross imagery
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy and Rosalie Kicks!, Old Sport
Best Boy (BB): When asked if I wanted to review Year of the Rabbit, one of Matt Berry’s many, recent vehicles, my answer was “Of course!” Some of you will know Matt as Lasszlo from the recent TV series What We Do in the Shadows, but I’ve been a fan since I stumbled across videos of him online from the show Snuffbox (with Rich Fulcher) in 2006. Matt has quite a bit of skill at playing a loud-mouth, know-it-all, misogynistic douchebag that manages to get more laughs than outrage. While his characters (and occasionally many other elements from the shows he is in) can be problematic, the viewer feels comfortable to laugh at how terrible it is because they are constantly being proven wrong and knocked down a peg.
Read MoreThe Day (De Dag)
Written by Jonas Geirnaert and Julie Mahieu
Directed by Gilles Coulier and Dries Vos
Starring Jeroen Perceval, Liesa Van der Aa and Sophie Decleir
Not Rated: Some swearing and graphic violence, a flaccid penis is briefly shown as a man takes a bath
Language: Flemish with English subtitles
Running time: 12 episodes averaging 45 minute=9 hours
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy
I enjoy visiting Belgium. The Old Sport and I both enjoy their beers and we’ve been to visit a couple times. We spent some time in the cities as well as the countryside and enjoyed both quite a bit for what they had to offer. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to go back in the last few years and I was starting to miss it. Then, all of a sudden, I saw that The Day was going to be available in the US and Canada to stream on Topic. Now, I also enjoy an interesting heist premise. And what I’d read about The Day was that you were seeing a bank heist from the police’s perspective and then the crooks’, alternating each episode. Of course, it’s all taking place within one day- hence the title. Well, I was sold. Why not give it a shot? And it paid off!
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