SNAPSHOTPicard features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Continue Reading
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More tales of fire and blood: House of the Dragon (S1, E4-6) review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND POWER HUNGRY REGRET … As an exploration of how power, both the attaining of it or its oft damning pursuit, corrupts, you can’t go past the quietly searing excoriation of House of the Dragon, with episodes four to six of its first season Continue Reading
The journey continues: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power (S1, E3-5) review
There’s a languid lusciousness to The Rings of Power which, if it was the only thing assessed by an audience when watching the show, might lead them to suspect the show is all thoughtful prettiness and not much else. Certainly there are moments of breathtaking beauty such as when Galadriel Continue Reading
Save who you can: The haunting apolcayptic horror of The Last of Us (trailer)
To be honest, after the disqueting, semi-apocalyptic weirdness of the COVID pandemic, my appetite for journeys into the darker side of humanity’s soul, and the cataclysmically devastating way it affects the world around us, has diminished significantly. Strangely during the lockdown height of the pandemic, when it psycholigically felt like Continue Reading
One more happy ending: Farewell and thank you to Grace and Frankie (S7, E 5-16)
Saying goodbye to anyone is hard, especially when it marks the end of a long, winding and very happy road, one you’re unlikely walk again. It’s a peculiar kind of melancholy that acknowledge good times have been had but that they’re now sadly over, and it applies almost as much Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Thoughts on Andor (S1, E1-3)
Star Wars has never been short of weight issues at the core of its storytelling. From the moment A New Hope, then just good old Star Wars before it begat a sprawlingly beguiling franchise, scrolled in memorable yellow and black across cinema screens in 1977, George Lucas’s take of good Continue Reading
M*A*S*H, 50 years on: the anti-war sitcom was a product of its time, yet its themes are timeless (curated article)
Daryl Sparkes, University of Southern Queensland MASH, stylised as M*A*S*H, is the story of a rag-tag bunch of medical misfits of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital thrown together against the horrors of the Korean war in the 1950s. The series endured for 11 seasons, from September 1972 to the Continue Reading
A tiny ton of TV trailers! Avenue 5 (S2), National Treasure: Edge Of History, Oddballs + Willow
Fun and adventure! Together these gloriously intoxicating things make life feel a whole lot less banal, excitingly more possible and thrillingly exciting in a way that commuting to work and paying your taxes simple does not. Thankfully while real life may not always have them in multitudinous abundance, TV/streaming does, Continue Reading
Still Kringle and ready to jingle: The Santa Clauses series explores a changing of the reins
SNAPSHOTScott Calvin is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s starting to lose a step in his Santa duties, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially two sons, one that Continue Reading
Wrapping things up: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building (S2, E7-10)
With the word “murders” in the title, it’s fair to expect that Only Murders in the Building will spend a reasonable amount of its narrative getting its Agatha Christie in the 21st century on. And it does, in ways that enthrall and delight and in ways which have more than Continue Reading