(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTGromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to Continue Reading
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Rebellion in the offing … Silo season 2 drops its first portentous trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a toxic dystopian future where a community lives in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep underground, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Silo, formerly known as Wool, is a mini-series created and written by Canadian TV Continue Reading
Played by evil to a ruinous extent: Thoughts on The Rings of Power S2, E4-8
(courtesy IMP Awards) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (S2, E4-8) ——————– SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!! ——————– Many people like to think of the world in purely binary terms. It understandable in one way; with life normally manifesting in all manner of chaotic guises, and consistency and predictability Continue Reading
An adventure five years in the making: Trailer released for Star Trek: Lower Decks final season
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn season five of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks,’ the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing ‘space potholes’ – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…if they didn’t also Continue Reading
Fall hard, love harder: Thoughts on Heartstopper season 3
(courtesy IMP Awards) Watching a new season of Heartstopper, just like reading the graphic novels upon which they are based, feels like coming home. That may sound like an extravagantly sentimental thing to say, but Alice Oseman’s wondrously inclusive creation feels, even at its darkest and most seriously contemplative (and Continue Reading
Will they. Won’t they. Should They? Thoughts on Nobody Wants This.
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ladies and gentlemen, and those who choose not to participate in traditional gender binary systems, of the televisual jury, I give you the perfect romantic comedy. If not perfect, then it’s so damn close that it might as well be given such a gushing shot of appreication. Continue Reading
“You’re in my seat” Shrinking debuts season 2 trailer + poster
(courtesy TVPlusUpdates X aka Twitter account (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTShrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he makes huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own. In addition to Continue Reading
Come together, differences and all: Thoughts on Centaurworld (season 2)
The trick with any show that is premised on an out-there idea and some pretty bonkers (thought delightfully) world-building, is that it needs to have a reason for being beyond simply being a whole of highly enjoyable, super colourful surreality. While it’s fun to watch a show which is all Continue Reading
Comedy double: Frasier (S2, E1-2) and Bad Monkey (S1, E5-7) reviews
(courtesy IMP Awards) Frasier S2: E1-2 “Ham” and Cyrano, Cyrano” A Meta-based featurette on season two of the Frasier revival, often called Frasier (2023), promises, with the excitable sense of hype for which this type of promo is known, that the show’s second season shows the characters settling into themselves Continue Reading
From India to America … and hilariously on: The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh
(courtesy IMDb (c) Amazon Prime) SNAPSHOTProduced by Sony Pictures Television, [The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh] mixes comedy and mystery as Pradeep family members retell the often conflicting stories of their first few months in Pittsburgh during an interrogation. Those tales include clashes with their Penguins-jersey-wearing (Ethan Suplee, My Name is Earl) Continue Reading