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   Gringo ➢ “Gringo arrives on Blu-ray with a well-rounded digitally sourced 1080p transfer. Universal’s presentation is not necessarily a standout, but it delivers essentials with agreeable screen presence. Details are consistently crisp. Facial textures, clothes, environments — whether sharply appointed offices, cramped spaces, shoddy hotels, restaurants, anywhere and everywhere the film goes, from snowy […]

Season two of Amazon Prime’s 4K courtroom drama, Goliath, will premiere on June 15. Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice), Goliath was the top binged first season of a US-produced Prime Original series ever over its first ten days. It also won Billy Bob Thornton, who plays […]

Queen of the South | Sky Box Sets, 7.30 Thursday/Monday ➢ “Although the show’s title might sound like a Bravo reality show about a sorority mom in Alabama, it actually follows a tough-as-nails Mexican woman named Teresa (Alice Braga) as she gets swept up in the drug world after hooking up with a cartel member, Güero (Jon […]

Narcos | Netflix, from Friday ➢ “Narcos wrapped up its Pablo Escobar storyline in two terrific seasons, raising the question of what the show could possibly do for an encore without Wagner Moura in that role. The answer, it turns out, was to splendidly hit the reset button, with Pedro Pascal moving to the center […]

   The season two Blu-ray of Narcos lands here a week ahead of the US — and with the same extras and specs. They include: Audio commentary with director Andrés Baiz, producer Eric Newman, and actor Wagner Moura Unredacted: Declassifying Narcos: Season Two Deleted scenes Sometimes the price we pay for getting the jump on […]

The premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, the return of Narcos and Designated Survivor, a new true-crime doco series, a Jerry Seinfeld special and the latest network commission to bypass local broadcasters, The Good Place, starring Kristin Bell and Ted Danson, head Netflix’s September highlights. Narcos: Season 3 (1/9/2017) The rules have changed in the aftermath […]

Star Trek goes where it hasn’t gone before — on 4K Blu-ray. Out the week of the show’s 50th anniversary are the 2009 reboot and and Star Trek Into Darkness. “Star Trek was shot on 35mm film at the 2.39:1 aspect ratio (using anamorphic lenses), then scanned and finished to a 2K Digital Intermediate. For this Ultra […]

Entertainment Weekly reckons season two of Narcos, which streams from today on Netflix, improves on the first. “Where season 1 spanned 10 years, season 2 captures Escobar’s last days on the loose. Each tightly packed episode moves quickly without sacrificing richness, chronicling the queasy alliances and gross tactics employed to snare Escobar. History is a […]

❏ Netflix Original Series Narcos: Season 2 (September 2) In the second season, notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is on the run, with the Colombian authorities in relentless pursuit, and determined to put an end to his illegal activities. Easy (September 22) An eight-episode anthology series that explores diverse Chicago characters as they fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, […]