TV series

  • Black Hats are The New Black

    Black Hats are The New Black

      You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the thoroughly entertaining award-winning Israeli award winning series The New Black , but it does help. Set in an upscale Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the story is about four young ‘shababnicks’.  This we soon learn is a term for a young ultra-Orthodox person who leaves his or…

  • The New Black : the hottest Israeli TV series is here.

    The New Black : the hottest Israeli TV series is here.

      There seems to be a brand new global streaming platform every day and occasionally one of them grabs our attention here at Queerguru.    The latest one is CHAIFLICKS  devoted to Jewish and Israeli entertainment ChaiFlicks offers over 300 acclaimed films, documentaries, shorts, television programs, stage productions, music performances, dance, performance artists including multiple…

  • A Suitable Boy

    A Suitable Boy

      Preferring not to read the original books that are adapted to into movies or TV shows we went into the BBC/Netflix treatment of Vikram Seth’s bestseller  A Suitable Boy totally cold.  We knew that the story, that award-winning Welsh writer Andrew Davies developed into a six part series ,was about an Indian mother trying…

  • Someone Has To Die (but whom?)

    Someone Has To Die (but whom?)

      Manolo Caro, the queer Mexican filmmaker who created the very successful Netflix series THE HOUSE of FLOWERS is back.  His new three part series SOMEONE HAS TO DIE  a delightfully campy melodrama set in Franco’s Spain in the 1950’s is already becoming another big hit, especially with the LGBTQ Community. The new series doesn’t…