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Although this dramedy was awesome it was still really frustrating to watch in a bittersweet kind of way. It made me miss traveling even more as much of this great series was shot in Airplanes and Airports and on location in Italy and Bangkok, granted I have never been to either nor do any of those appeal to me but hey beggars cannot be choosers. I started this thinking this was going to be a rom com kind of show but fifteen minutes in and it was something different, something much better, darker and sinister but it still felt light and breezy. In A Golden Globe nomination role Kaley Cuoco from the big bang theory stars as a Cassie Bowden an alcoholic flight attended who goes on a date with one of her passengers only to wake up with him the next morning with his throat slashed in the bed beside her. Leaving the scene of the crime the series follows our antihero in a series of misadventures while she tries to solve the murder. Most of the supporting cast are recognisable, you have Rosie Perez who was amazing in last year’s Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, Michael Huisman from Game Of Thrones, TVs Girls Zosia Mamet, fresh of his return from Greys Anatomy T.R Knight plays Cuoco’s brother, Greenleaf’s Merle Dandridge and putting In a Scene Stealing performance as lovable assassin Miranda Croft is Michelle Gomez from DR Who and Chilling adventures of Sabrina. With only 8 episodes this is easily binged in one weekend.

On the BBC iPlayer is this hidden gem. It stars Pamela Aldon as mother of three and working Actress dealing with life the good and the bad. Her two older kids are brats but very likable and the youngest one is an over sensitive dote, her mother played by living legend Celia Imrie is golden in this. It is an easy watch with some LOL moments. It is a show you can have on in the background but still take in what’s going on, it’s been a hit with critics some even going on to say it’s an experience like nothing else on television. I am currently on season 2 and it makes this current lock down that little bit more bearable, look out for guest stars Sharon Stone, Molly Shannon, David Duchovny and Julie Bowen.

For those that think Disney+ isn’t worth its subscription (and I have to admit I was once one of them) well it’s about to get much better as a whole pile of mature content is being added to a new channel on the streaming service STAR. New Shows like Love Victor a spin of show from Gay teen rom com Love Simon, one of the only new prime time drama to air in the States Big Sky will be available and I have no doubt new productions will be added regularly along with a very long list of films but I have to admit it’s got a pretty impressive amount of past shows that I’m definitely going to re-watch including Alias starring Jennifer Garner as badass Spy Sydney Bristow, the second season finally was one of the best jaw dropping cliff-hangers ever, also it helps that Bradley Copper was once a regular in the series before he went into main stream movies. Brothers and Sisters the family drama that has Sally Field and Calista Flockhart playing mother and daughter has plenty of twists, turns, illegitimate kids and sibling quarrels to keep you interested in its five seasons, I think they could have given it one more season. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my second favourite show of all time and I could act in every single episode that is not to say I’m not ever going to re-watch it all again, granted I don’t think its aged well it’s still Buffy, it still has Sarah Michelle Gellar and like a lot of queer people around my age Buffy holds a special place in our hearts, Heck it was my social life for seven years. Desperate Housewives I just recently re watched this but it will always be a classic and before its time. If you were a fan of Desperate Housewives then you will love Devious Maids it was created by Marc Sherry who made DHS, its campy very tele novella has a great cast of female leads and recurring in the final series is the Late Naya Rivera. I recently read her memoir Sorry not sorry and I really enjoyed it, if you were a fan, I highly recommend it. It’s a bright easy read. Speaking of Naya, Glee is also going to be on STAR, I did re watch Glee a couple of years back when it was added to Netflix that said I do not know if I would re watch again as the latest news about Lea Michelle who I was a massive fan. Another two shows that I re-watched over lockdown that I paid for and now if I had waited, I would have been able to watch them for free is Feud: Bette and Joan, Ryan Murphy’s real life drama starring Jessica Lang and Susan Sarandon about the feud between two of Hollywood’s greatest actress Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and the other is Revenge with Madeline Stowe and Emily VanCamp a brilliant bitchy drama. Emily VanCamp is also in Brothers and Sisters and not only that she will also appear in the Disney+ Marvel series The Falcon and Winter Soldier reprising her role as Sharon Carter from the Captain America movies. My all-time favourite show Greys Anatomy is going to be added to STAR it’s also on Amazon Prime but hey you can never have too much of Greys Anatomy. Can I get an Amen up in here? And the show I’m excited about the most to re watch and is on top of my list is Ugly Betty, this show had it all campy tele novella drama, humour, amazing character growth and it made America Ferrera a household name. If like me you’re a massive fan of America Ferrera’s work, then why not check out her Sitcom Superstore on Netflix. With all those shows you might be wishing lockdown never ends so you have time to watch them all. Joke. As if.

Joss Whedons version Justice League is still in my opinion an ok superhero film it was brighter and had more humour than the previous daker DC films, Man of Steel and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, it was more or less a big over the top Saturday morning carton. Still, it bombed at the box office. Whedon took over for Snyder as director after Snyder tragically lost his daughter to a suicide. Fans for years have wanted to see the Snyder cut and come March 18th HBO will release Snyder’s version as a mini-series. None of Whedon’s footage will be used so in that way we are promised a different movie. The plot still the same – Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince recruit metahumans to stop a dark threat that is coming to threaten earth, but like I said we are promised a whole new movie all together with 70 million dollars spent on re shoots involving most of the main cast including Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, visual effects, editing and more magic. The best thing about this version well get to see Jared Leto come back to play Zack Snyder’s version of the Joker. Other DC characters will be introduced. Hopefully, this version is superior and will fast track the sequel out of development hell.