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BINGE OR BOMBEpisode 37Envious-( Netflix, Argentina) Attractive, successful 40-year-old Vicky is a force to be reckoned with. But she’s her own worst enemy as she tries to find happiness with a man who ticks off all the boxes. What Vicky learns is no one ticks off all the boxes and her quest is more about what she needs to do to understand herself. The Ladies Companion- (Netflix-Spain) A feisty young woman becomes the live-in chaperone to 3 sisters in colorful 19th century Madrid. The cheeky series involves her adventures in securing hap...
2025-08-0527 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 36Adolescence- a powerful, groundbreaking drama which centers around a 13 year-old-boy and his family when it is revealed that the boy has stabbed a fellow girl classmate to death. Layers of the boys personality are stripped away in order to understand his motivation. Also paramount are the effects on the family and those around him in their effort to understand what led up to this heinous act The Leopard- A remake of a book and movie which, in the 19th century, takes a look at an area of Sicily which, like all of...
2025-06-2423 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 35Get Millie Black is a detective thriller set in Kingston, Jamaica. Mille is a brilliant Jamaican born Scotland yard detective who asks too many questions and doesn’t take no for an answer. When she returns to Jamaica she must solve two cases one involving a missing teenage girl and the other a potentially trafficked young boy. Complicating matters is Millie’s need to reconcile with her transgender sister as well as her conflicted detective partner who faces his own demons. Inspired by real events In FALSE FLAG, an Iranian defense minis...
2025-04-0627 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 34BLACK DOVES has us believe there is an elite organization that enlists spies and assassins to steal state secrets from any country and sell them to anyone else…busineses, other governments, whoever. Working for this group are a spy who is the lovely wife of an English politician and her friend, an assassin with a conscience. How both balance their secret and public lives and the toll it takes is the core of the series.LA MAQUINA chronicles the friendship and conflict between two men involved in the upper echelons of Mexican boxing.Est...
2025-03-0721 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 33Turkish series, THANK YOU NEXT, a hybrid rom com is about a successful headstrong thirty something lawyer Leyla, who is recovering from her first love’s betrayal. Eventually she will have to make a choice between her ex, a handsome chef and a charismatic businessman. Along the way Leyla’s surrounded by a group of friends who while deciphering their own complicated relationships are planning Leyla’s strategy to identify which of the three men is really the one for her.SAY NOTHING- This 9 part series encompasses 30 odd years of the time in Ireland called the Tr...
2025-01-2126 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 32In VIGIL, an intrepid Scottish police investigator is helicoptered onto a nuclear sub upon which a murder has taken place. Complicating this issue is that it appears Russian subs are trailing this English vessel. Meanwhile more people turn up dead.There are eco terrorists, espionage, forbidden romances and all manner of complications for the investigator to tackle… all while she is also struggling with PTSD from a tragic accident and a complicated new romance with a fellow officer. TRYING is about one couple’s attempt to become a family with kids. When regular methods fail, the co...
2024-11-1327 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 31BABY REINDEER( Netflix)-England- is a black comedy thriller based on the real life of comedian Richard Gadd. In the series Gadd plays Donny, a struggling comedian working as a bartender. One night into the bar comes Martha, a lonely woman who claims to be a lawyer. He offers her a free cup of tea. Big mistake. Martha, a large person also has large needs and desires which she focuses on the hapless Donny. Almost instantly she is obsessed with Donny and infiltrates every aspect of his life. Curiously Donny seems to become the somewhat willing object of this...
2024-07-1124 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 30-I Hate Suzie, The Gentlemen, 3 Body ProblemI Hate Suzie-A black comedy centered around TV actress Suzie Pickles whose life is upended when her phone is hacked and a scandalous video of her is released to the public compromising her marriage and career. Suzie goes to great lengths to get her life back on track while increasingly both she and her life fall apart. The only thing saving her may be her best friend and agent but it is Suzie who must save herself. The Gentlemen- Action comedy from director Guy Ritchie. Two sons of an artistocratic family find themselves coping with the alliance th...
2024-05-1028 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 29-Monsieur Spade, Expats, True Detective-Night CountryMONSIEUR SPADE- picks up legendary detective Sam Spade living a comfy life in the South of France. He’s called on to deliver a teenage girl to her scoundrel father who disappears. Soon nuns are murdered, conspiracies abound and scores of factions are after a young Algerian boy with unusual talents. EXPATS- The lives of three women intersect in the insular community of expats living in Hong Kong during the 2014 political unrest. Two are super privileged with servants whose lives continually intersect with those of their employers. One is a young Columbia grad whose careless con...
2024-03-2124 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 28-Criminal Record, Fisk, Detective ForstCRIMINAL RECORD finds two detectives pitted against each other. They’re working on associated cases, one having to do with a 911 call of a woman fearful that her boyfriend will kill her. But in that call she also reveals that a man in prison for killing his girlfriend is innocent. The two detectives are very different kinds of cops. One is middle aged, old school and believes the end justifies the means. The other, a young African American woman, refuses to accept the questionable tactics that have riddled the police force. FISK- In this Australian workp...
2024-03-1023 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 27ANNIKAA quirky female detective must solve murders around Glasgow Scotland. Breaking the 4th wall, she shares her unvarnished views on subjects sparked by her investigations, including Moby Dick, Shakespeare and Greek tragedy. Complicating her life are a sullen teenage daughter and her eclectic but accomplished team. LITTLE BIRDThis quiet drama chronicles the odyssey undertaken by Esther, a soft spoken Montreal Jewish lawyer from an indigenous background who, as a child, had been adopted by a caring Holocaust survivor. When she learns she had been forcibly taken from poor b...
2024-02-0821 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 26-LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, INTERVIEW WITH SERIES COSTUME DESIGNER MIRREN GODON-CROZIER, 30 COINSIn LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, set in the 50s, a talented young female would-be chemist battles a male dominated science world while trying to make her way professionally and raise a daughter. Unexpectedly she gains fame when she hosts a cooking show. Interview with LESSONS IN CHEMISTY costume designer for, Mirren Gordon-Crozier, whose credits also includon WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, BURIAL and THE GLASS CASTLE.In 30 COINS, a thriller/ horror film/ romance, several unlikely allies join together to find the 30 coins that Judas was paid to betray Jesus. The coins have magical powers which an evil caba...
2024-01-1122 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 25The Sixth Commandment based on a true crime is set in an idyllic English town. Peter, a closeted and devout gay professor meets Ben, a charming, handsome student who seems to fall in love with Peter. And then Peter dies, leaving his estate to Ben who now ingratiates himself into the life of Peter's neighbor, Ann, another senior citizen and retired academic. She too dies, leaving Ben her estate. What’s wrong with this picture.In Nada, a jolly, but spoiled Argentinian restaurant critic finds his life out of control when his loyal housekeeper dies. A young Para...
2023-12-1125 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 24- LUPIN, DON'T LEAVE ME, EXTRAORDINARY“LUPIN” brings back Assane, a master thief and disguises who has adopted the persona of the much beloved hero of a series of crime novels. Previously it was thought Lupin had died but In this Third season he returns to Paris very much alive. He must use all his skills to combat a vengeful specter from his past who not only kidnaps Assane’s long-lost mother but also threatens his wife and beloved teenage son.. “DON'T LEAVE ME” is set in Venice, very much a character in this mystery thriller. After years away, Elena returns...
2023-11-1319 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 23In SLEEPING DOG, Mike Atlas, a once successful cop, is sleeping on the streets, estranged from his family and haunted by having been unable to prevent a terrorist attack. But something jumpstarts the traumatized Mike when the brother of a wrongfully accused convict tries to make sense of his brother's questionable prison suicide. In RIVER, an emotionally withdrawn detective has recently witnessed his beloved partner’s murder. He’s determined to find her killer. And he’s helped by the fact that his beloved partner continues to speak to him, even though she’s deceased.
2023-10-2623 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 22-La Reina del Sur ( Queen of the South, Norsemen, HijackQueen of the South- La Reyna del Sur- In this Mexican action drama, a poor but gorgeous young woman falls in love with the wrong guy and winds up running from a drug cartel. Then using her wits, she becomes the head of her own drug cartel. Lots of over-the-top violence, treachery, romance and some gorgeous costuming. It’s a tele-novella with great production values.Hijack-In a word. Idris Elba. He plays a tough successful business ‘fixer’ type who’s on a plane hijacked by a determined gang of lackeys for 2 im...
2023-09-1222 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 21- The Hour, Happy Valley, Black MirrorTHE HOUR, a two season drama set in the 1950s, looks at the lives and loves of three journalists working for the BBC as they create The Hour, a new kind of show for that time…a 60 Minutes with real investigative reporting. Both seasons interweave world-shaping events such as the Suez Canal and the establishment of nuclear bases in England. As The Hour is created there is romance, murder and of course sharp humor.BLACK MIRROR is an anthology series combining reality, fantasy and solid drama, all based just enough in real life to make them deeply disturbing. Someti...
2023-08-1527 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 20-Reviews of Ghost of Beirut, The Restaurant,A Small LightGHOSTS OF BEIRUT- a spy thriller about the US and Israel joint operation to eliminate a brilliant terrorist who was responsible for the murders of hundreds, if not thousands, of people, both citizens, diplomats and military alike, who he saw as combatants in the battle for control of, not only Israel and Palestine, but of the Middle East. THE RESTAURANT- the saga of the owners and staff of an upscale family-owned Swedish restaurant as both restaurant and personnel adjust to the changes starting after World War 11, through the 50s and ending in the...
2023-07-1422 min
Just Get A Real JobEp. 102 - ”Navigating the Industry Maze” with Ellen Sherman and Gillian Gordon (Producers)In Episode 102 of "Just Get A Real Job", Jamie is joined by the inspiring duo Ellen Sherman and Gillian Gordon. These industry veterans, with extensive experience in Film and TV, including producing, bring a wealth of brilliant insights and advice to the table.
From discussing the American TV Industry to sharing their career journeys and their own popular podcast "Binge or Bomb", Ellen and Gillian cover it all. They even delve into their learnings from film school including from people like the esteemed Martin Scorsese and explore the contrasting pathways of then and now.
Ellen Sherman & Gillian Gordon:
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2023-06-271h 03BINGE OR BOMBEpisode 19-DROPS OF GOD, SHERWOOD, LIASONSSherwood is a murder mystery based on real events in Nottinghamshire England but the roots to the drama lie in the miners’ strike of 1983 which created a bitter rift in the community. When the leader of one of the previously warring factions is killed, decades-old rivalries and resentment leads to a final reckoning for the entire town.Drops of God pits a young man and woman against each other as they battle to win three contests created to test their wine expertise. The prize? A wine collection worth a fortune. The French woman is...
2023-06-1520 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 18DROPS OF GOD-( French/Japanese Apple+)is set in the elite world of wine. A powerful wine expert, dies leaving behind a fortune and his valuable wine collection. But who inherits it? There is a 3-part wine challenge involving which pits the expert's estranged daughter against the heir to a diamond fortune who became Leger’s protegee. Set in glossy Tokyo and the lush wine country of both France and Italy, it’s part drama, part romance, part crash course in wine. THE DIPLOMAT ( England, Netflix) is a dark political comedy...
2023-06-1224 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 17- Money Heist, Am I Being Unreasonable, The Good MothersMoney Heist- is an action-packed thriller which portrays how a gang of men and women pull off the robbery of the Royal Mint of Spain then come back to rob the Bank of Spain. The gang of compelling misfits is led by a brilliant master-mind called The Professor who concocts intricate schemes to pull off the heist. But it’s the sophisticated plot, fascinating characters and sharp direction that make this a stand-out. Am I Being Unreasonable- is a dark comedy about a feisty unhappily married mother whose...
2023-05-0924 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 16 A Spy Among Friends, Mariachis, SpinNEWS FLASH: We will now be sending you new episodes every two weeks. On those Fridays!A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, an espionage thriller based on real events, is the story of a privileged Cambridge-educated British spy Kim Philby who secretly worked for 3 decades as a Soviet double agent. It is a tale of spying and double-crossing but it is mainly a tale of two friends, Philby and his fellow aristocratic spy, Nick Elliot who, is tasked with getting Philby to divulge his secrets about other members of the British government working as Soviet agents.MARIACHIS is the...
2023-05-0920 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 15-Life On Mars, Arde Madrid, KleoLIFE ON MARS is both a time-travel fantasy and police procedural thriller. In 2006. Detective Sam Tyler is on the rise when he’s hit by a car. He’s in a coma when, inexplicably, he’s also vaulted back to 1973 where he's still a detective solving cases. Tyler fights to uncover which is his actual reality. Quirky comedy ARDE MADRID is set in 1960s Spain in the household of actress Ava Gardner where Franco's government has enlisted a virginal teacher and a low level conman to pose as hired help and spy on Gardner. Innocent Anna Marie's life is...
2023-05-0119 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 14- Derry Girls, Tokyo Vice, Three PinesIn Derry Girls 4 teenage girls and a teenage boy band together to navigate the highs and lows of adolescence while growing up in Londonderry, Ireland in the Nineties. There are predictable difficulties with parents and school but what adds another dimension is that they live in Northern Ireland during the political battle known as “The Troubles” so their teen years are complicated by the chaos that comes with living in a political battlefield. Tokyo Vice is based on the rea-life story of an American journalist who gets a coveted reporter job on a Tokyo ne...
2023-03-0821 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 13-LANDSCAPERS, NORMAL PEOPLE, ALPHA MALESLANDSCAPERS recounts the true story of a seemingly normal English couple, Susan and Christopher Edwards, who turn themselves into police after 15 years of hiding. Why? Susan killed her mother after seeing her mother kill her father. And Susan’s husband buried the parents in the back yard. The Edwards have been living on the parents' money ever since. But, as they tell police, there was a very decent reason behind the whole “ unfortunate” incident. NORMAL PEOPLE, an Irish series, looks at the friendship/romance between two young people from very different backgrounds as they tr...
2023-02-1320 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 12- GLITCH, FAUDA, BELASCOARAN, PIIn GLITCH, an Australian paranormal thriller, a group of people, having died in different years and even different centuries, rise from their graves and return to the town where they died. How they have come back and, more importantly, why they have returned are two mysteries that need to be solved. The acclaimed Israeli political thriller FAUDA returns for a 4th season. When the former chief of an Israeli spy unit is kidnapped, his team must find him as well as thwart the plans of a rebel Palestinian group intent on setting off a slew of lethal missiles. Set in...
2023-02-0920 minBINGE OR BOMBSLOW HORSES, THE TUNNEL, INSIDE MAN-REVIEWSListen to reviews of 3 very different suspense thrillers. SLOW HORSES, based on the best-selling book series, is an espionage mystery featuring a unit of outcast spies from Britain's respected MI5. When domestic terrorists kidnap a British/Pakistani student, this rag tag unit surprisingly seems to the only hope. THE TUNNEL, based on the acclaimed series THE BRIDGE, pairs a quirky female French detective and a driven English detective who must solve the question of who killed a politician, leaving half her body in the Euro Tunnel equally straddling both the French and English border. INSIDE MAN juxtaposes the lives o...
2023-02-0624 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 10: PACHINKO, THE ENGLISH, HOME FOR CHRISTMASHOME FOR CHRISTMAS ( Norway ) is a quirky, feel-good romantic comedy/family drama. A 30-something pretty, whip-smart nurse must, for the umpteenth time, face her large family's Christmas dinner without a boyfriend. In the days leading up to the feast she embarks on a mission to find true love with totally unpredictable results. The series will surprise you with its droll humor, clever plot turns, and unorthodox characters.PACHINKO (South Korea) chronicles four generations of a Korean family who endure and overcome the difficulties faced by Koreans who were forced to live un...
2022-12-2028 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 9 reviews GLORIA, A PLACE TO CALL HOME and THE EMPRESSGet a review of Portuguese series GLORIA set in the 1960s, it's a political thriller that follows a Portuguese Russian spy working undercover as an engineer at a facility broadcasting anti-Soviet programming behind the Iron Curtain. A PLACE TO CALL HOME is the saga of a wealthy Australian family throughout the 50s and 60s and a newcomer to their town who has an impact on their world that no one expects. THE EMPRESS tells the story of Catherine, the very high profile bohemian wife of the Austro-Hungarian emperor whose unorthodox views and behavior shook up the titled world in whi...
2022-12-1620 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 8-PRISONERS OF WAR, BAD SISTERS, TEHRANGet our take on PRISONERS OF WAR( Israel, ) the popular Israeli political thriller on which HOMELAND was based. In the Irish black comedy, BAD SISTERS, ( Ireland) four sisters embark on a plan to kill the handsome, charming but secretly sociopathic husband of a fifth sister. He's not only abusive to their sister but he's attempted to ruin each of the four sisters' lives. They want him dead but it's harder than they thought to accomplish. Another Israeli political thriller, the Emmy award-winning TEHRAN, ( Israel) chronicles how a beautiful Iranian-born underc...
2022-11-3018 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 6-WAKEFIELD, QUEEN, THE TOURISTThis episode takes a look at WAKEFIELD ( Australia) , a surreal psychological drama revolving around the staff and patients who populate a psychiatric hospital perched on the edge of Australia’s spectacular Blue Mountains. In QUEEN,( Poland) a comedy with an edge, the life of a successful, gay Polish tailor/ drag queen changes when a letter arrives from the daughter he never knew existed in Poland. She needs a kidney. And needs him to immediately come to Poland, a place to which he swore he’d never return. THE TOURIST...
2022-11-0117 minBINGE OR BOMBEPISODE 7-THE MIRACLE, WHO KILLED SARA, DARK WINDSIn THE MIRACLE ( Italy) , a small statue of the Virgin Mary makes its way to the hideout of an Italian gangster. It’s ordinary except that it’s weeping blood. How this potentially extraordinary event affects the lives of Italy’s young prime minister, a debauched priest, a young medical researcher and everyone around them is part of the journey of this unusual series. WHO KILLED SARA ( Mexico) recounts the story following the death of a young girl in a boating accident at the home of a mega rich family into whose liv...
2022-11-0119 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode Five-CRASH LANDING ON YOU, FLIGHT ATTENDANT, BORGEN CRASH LANDING ON YOU (South Korea) is a South Korean romantic epic in which a spoiled heiress, while hang gliding in an ad for one of her many businesses, accidentally crash lands into North Korea. She's rescued by a handsome North Korean army officer. To their suprise, they fall in love and have to navigate an array of expected and unexpected obstacles. In the American comic adventure series FLIGHT ATTENDANT ( USA) an attractive and hard-partying flight attendant has a wild night with a handsome stranger only to wake up the next morning to fin...
2022-10-2423 minBINGE OR BOMBEpisode 4-LINE OF DUTY, INSPECTOR MONTALBANO, OUR BOYSThis week we look at the long-running series, LINE OF DUTY ( UK), which portrays the personal and professional challenges faced by a small unit of police officers charged with uncovering the corruption secretly permeating various divisions of their police department. A very different series, also focusing on a police department, is INSPECTOR MONTELBANO, ( Italy) centered on the cases faced by the charming, world-weary head of the police department in a small seaside Italian town. OUR BOYS, (Israel), focuses on an Israeli investigator who must use his wits, ev...
2022-10-2220 min
BINGE OR BOMBEpisode One-SKY ROJO, BORDERTOWN, SISYPHUSIn our inaugural episode we take a deep dive into: SKY ROJO ( Spain) Three spirited but damaged prostitutes are trying to pay off their individual debts to a devious pimp who has trapped them into servitude in a glamorous but destructive brothel. The trio decide to free themselves by embarking on a caper that will steal money from their pimp and allow them to escape.SISYPHUS (South Korea) A well-meaning tech billionaire finds himself entangled in a war that pits two rival factions from the future. Each have come back to...
2022-06-2717 min
BINGE OR BOMB"BINGE OR BOMB"-Episode 2- "Sex Education,""Stay Close" & "Losing Alice"Ever wonder what to watch? Swamped with TV series product?STAY CLOSE ( UK) A young wife and mother is hiding secrets of her past from her husband. Then a murder at a local strip club reignites an investigation into a series of past murders that will entangle her in a web of lies from the past. LOSING ALICE ( ISRAEL) - A forty-something once successful female director is approached by a young woman with a provocative script. The director decides to tae it on. As filming progresses she must c...
2022-06-2715 min
BINGE OR BOMBEpisode 3- REACHER, GIRL FROM OSLO, WANTEDREACHER (USA), is a mystery thriller featuring the mysterious Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who travels the country without any particular destination. He carries no luggage but does carry a strong moral code that compels him to right wrongs in whatever town he goes to.GIRL FROM OSLO( Norway/Israel)-A trio of teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists in the Sinai desert. The mother of one teen, a married Norwegian diplomat must join forces with an Israeli diplomat, a former lover and in reality, the father of the kidnapped girl.
2022-06-2718 min