Hannibal
If you haven't seen Mads Mikkelsen turn up the creep factor in the TV show based on the novels, you’re in for a treat.
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It’s visually powerful and even if you don’t realise it while watching, the themes of people being turned into deer will probably play on your subconscious and give you nightmares. Seriously. Almost everyone who has watched this show on a binge will say they had some sort of over-thinking disturbance at some point while watching it.
The dialogue, however, is sterile, repetitive and even over the top at times. It lacks the wit that would have made it memorable and even creepier.
But that’s not the worst thing. The acting is solid and because you don’t need to invest a tremendous amount of brain power into picking up conversational nuances, it’s an easy watch, barring the violence of course.
There are three series to whistle through. The show was abruptly cancelled, but rumours are churning that it might return in the distant future.
Available on Netflix
Empire of Scents
Is your girlfriend a nartjie and your ouma cinnamon? You know the poem. You also know the feeling.
You smell cut grass and you’re transported back to a grim Saturday morning, when teenage you is being forced to get up at an unreasonable hour for chores or whatever other ridiculous activity was in vogue at the time.