(courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading
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Alone and together: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S3, E4-7
(courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that has demarcated this season of Only Murders in the Building from the two that preceded it is how much time our beloved three investigating podcasters have spent apart. In the first three episodes this seemed like a minor but irritating misjudgement, as if the Continue Reading
Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier
(via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading
Sci-fi double: Star Trek – Lower Decks (S4, E1-2) and Invasion (S2, E3)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek Lower Decks season 4, episode 1: “Twovix”Lower Decks is back, ready to fill the Star Trek-sized hole left in our viewing hearts by the end of Strange New Worlds‘ diversely creative second season. And what a return it is. Pivoting on the love the show’s Continue Reading
Hello civilisation! Krapopolis brings gods, humans and monsters together in a gloriously funny tale of animated proto-urbanity (with pigs)
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTSet in mythical ancient Greece, Krapopolis tells the story of a dysfunctional family of humans, gods and monsters trying to run one of the world’s first cities, while also trying their best to not kill each other in the process. The series features the voices of Emmy Award-winner Continue Reading
Rot begins at the edges, long before it reaches the heart: Foundation (S2, E6-8)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) Episode 6 – “Why the Gods Made Me”You get the impression that when Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) first devised his maths-based theory of psychohistory that he must have bloodlessly and impassionately put it all together, convinced that while he was saving humanity, the actual affairs and Continue Reading
Accept your fate or fight back – what will you choose? Thoughts on Invasion (S2, E1-2)
Invasion S2, E1 (courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 1 – “Something’s Changed”Honestly if you’d asked this reviewer if he’d ever see a second season on Invasion, the answer would be a hard “NO”. While the first season was the very highest order of sci-fi storytelling, slowly and expertly building tension and Continue Reading
True love of a most piratical kind: Our Flag Means Death S2 teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… the new season will continue to follow the tumultuous romance between pirates Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), both of whom are kinda sorta based on their real-life counterparts. Things didn’t end so well in the first season, so there’s going to be plenty Continue Reading
COMING UP! Streaming gets a boost with Frasier reboot, Still Up and Our Flag Means Death S2
(Photo by Sindy Süßengut on Unsplash) So much shows to watch! That could become a source of stress and let’s be honest, it often does, or it could be viewed, much as a book-laden TBR should be, as an opportunity for great storytelling in which to lose yourself. This reviewer Continue Reading
War comes to every world: Rebel Moon releases official teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes Rebel Moon, an epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Continue Reading