SNAPSHOT In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while Continue Reading
You want The Walking Dead to have an ’80s sitcom-style intro? You got it!
How much do I love The Wil Wheaton Project? Quite a bit, and I would like it a whole lot more if syfy Australia could find a way to begin screening it in Down Under. Until that happens though, I will be content with these gems that keep dropping Continue Reading
Hijacking a soul: The chilling premise of BBC America’s new TV series Intruders
SNAPSHOT The series is about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others. Jack Whelan (John Simm), a former LAPD cop with a troubled and violent history, finds the quiet idyllic life he has crafted with his wife, Amy (Mira Sorvino) shattered Continue Reading
HOME! is where Boov are … and you WILL like it greatly (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip (Rihanna, who also contributes a song) manages to Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Ghost in the Machine” (S4, E1 review)
BOOM! That shockingly loud sound you hear is TNT’s Falling Skies taking a turn for the darker, tilting, nay falling with breakneck speed towards storylines so gritty and apocalyptic that it finally feels like you are in the midst of a good, honest-to-God, full-blown catastrophic alien invasion. Gone are Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs I discovered via In the Flesh (season 2)
One of the most gripping, fresh-voiced and emotionally authentic shows to have emerged in the arguably crowded zombie genre in the last couple of years has been BBC3’s In the Flesh, a series that looks at the way in which society reacts when the undead apocalypse, known in this Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Listen Up Philip
SNAPSHOT Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elizabeth Moss), and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Continue Reading
Planning some TV binge-watching? Check this handy chart out first!
In case you hadn’t noticed – in which case you are an astoundingly well-organised person of almost savant-like powers who is completely up to date in all things; I may just have to worship you once I finish season 6 of Dexter and season 8 of Supernatural and … – Continue Reading
Defiance: “The Opposite of Hallelujah” (season 2 premiere review)
Defiance as a premise is everything my eternally sci-fi loving heart loves in a show. It’s post-apocalyptic – that’s what happens when an invading collective of seven alien races arrives to take Earth as their own following the annihilation of their own system, goes to war with humanity and Continue Reading
Can you show me how to get … REALLY QUICKLY! … to Sesame Street
In a lot of ways, my childhood, which involved consuming countless hours of Sesame Street at my leisure (including the gorgeous Grover, and Ernie and Bert) feels like it all happened a million years ago. It’s probably partly the passage of time and partly the fact that the world Continue Reading