Revamping the Robin Hood story to star a teen girl in a dystopic kingdom of Sherwood in the flooded aftermath of today’s climate crisis, Sherwood features scenes that are so compellingly layered visually and a dystopic world that is so distressingly believable that it can be forgiven for featuring fairly prosaic villains and hinging half the time on a blood-borne MacGuffin. Sherwood may look like a cousin to Clone Wars, but this animated series, created by Diana Manson and Megan Laughton and animated by Giant Animation and Toybox, is an original. Stars: Anya Chalotra, Tyler Posey, Aneurin Barnard, Jamie Chung, Rachel House, Adetokumboh M’Cormack, Joseph Fiennes Genre: Animated Family/Kids/Action & Adventure Canceled, alas, before Olivia could find The One, the eight comedic star-studded episodes of the first (and only) season nevertheless work as a remarkably (if occasionally cringingly) sweet, complete modern rom-com, in which the emphasis on Olivia’s family connections is just as important as the sexier connections she’s making on Tinder. In practice, if you’re a fan of relationship dramedies like Please Like Me, Catastrophe and Lovesick, Sideswiped might be just the ticket. On paper, Carly Craig’s Sideswiped-an eight-episode original series following a gun-shy single woman named Olivia Maple (Craig) as she throws herself into dates with the 252 Tinder matches she swiped right on in a panicked, drunken fuzz while out with her mother (Rosanna Arquette) and sister (Chelsea Frei) on her 35th birthday-reads as the most reductive kind of cliché. Stars: Carly Craig, Rosanna Arquette, Chelsea Frei, Craig Frank, Alice Lee, tons of splashy cameos
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I know, I know! Long-percolating takes are anathema to Peak TV criticism, but hey, maybe that should change.Ĭreated by: Carly Craig, Daniel Reisinger The question of self and who deserves to claim it looms large of the series, and while I wish the series as a whole could have tangled with those questions better, I am increasingly glad that I watched it.
That said, I’m including it on this list because, despite giving it a tepid review after seeing the few episodes that had been provided for review and then privately decreasing that tepid take to a downright pan upon finishing the series, I have found myself, in the many months since, thinking about the final episode with alarming regularity. The characters make insensible decisions from the jump, and the mystery, such as it is, isn’t given enough context early enough on for the viewer to grab hold of.
I’m the first to say, as globally hyped as it was, and with the production budget it appears to have been given, Origin just didn’t come together enough at any point in its short first season run to earn further seasons. Stars: Natalia Tena, Tom Felton, Sen Mitsuji, Nora Arnezeder, Fraser James, Philipp Christopher, Madalyn Horcher, Siobhán Cullen That said, I know that no matter how hard I work to find you the best (cheapest) way in, the legit value of the non- Cobra Kai Originals behind the Premium wall is just going to be a tough sell, not least because YouTube Originals live in the bizarre no-man’s land halfway between the streaming video juggernaut that is classic YouTube-home of Vlogbrothers, Hot Ones, Contrapoints, ASMR makeup tutorials and the capitalist algorithm-driven rightwing dickbaggery downfall of modern democracy-and the prestige-y dark horse baby that is YouTube Premium. And if you’re part of a family (however you might define the term) whose members might all find those arguments compelling? Well, in that case you can get a plan that costs $17.99/month, which (even with just two members in the “family”) still splits into Netflix-equivalent pricing. If you watch enough regular YouTube that being interrupted by ads on every video represents a significant cut into your short time on this Earth, though-or if you listen to a wide enough variety of music that you’re shelling out for a subscription to a music service each month anyway-that $11.99/month cost takes on a new light. If you’re coming to YouTube Premium purely as a fan of television, this shockingly high sticker price has likely been the primary deterrent to diving in.
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