(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) What a way to finish a season! While some series which start with brooding, slow-building portent and doom, and Invasion has had that in slowly nuanced spades throughout its first season and the second, fumble things going into the big dramatic narrative payoff, this exquisitely well-delivered Continue Reading
Streaming
Sitcom double: Upload (S3, E1-4) and Frasier reboot (E3-4)
(courtesy IMP Awards) UPLOAD S3, E1-3 Death has never been so complicated. Back in them thar olden days, people died, they were buried, those left behind believed they had gone to a better place and gave the goods they’d need in their grave to make the most of it, everyone Continue Reading
Laugh out loud double: Frasier reboot (S1, E1-2) + Star Trek Lower Decks (S4 E3-7)
Frasier reboot (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the dilemmas of the modern streaming age is should you go back to a classic show, revisit and revise it, reboot and redo it? To be fair, it’s not the sort of questions many, if any, of the corporations behind the plethora of Continue Reading
Season finale fun: Ahsoka (S1, E6-8) and Only Murders in the Building (3, E9-10)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ahsoka (S1, E6-8) Talk about sticking the landing! After daring to take us deeper into the mystical otherworld of Star Wars via the dark magic of Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) – she and the Great Mothers of Peridea make the Sith look like rank amateurs on Continue Reading
Does the dark of night bring more clarity? Thoughts on Still Up (S1, E1-4)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Lisa (Antonia Thomas) and Danny (Craig Roberts) have a problem. Well, two in fact, one quite obvious which literally defines their waking hours and the other, lurking just out of reach, which subconsciously tinges and influences their every conversation, all of which happen in the dead of Continue Reading
It’s Nathan vs. Nathan as Upload season three debuts an amusing trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn season 3, we pick back up with Nora and freshly downloaded Nathan as they navigate their relationship, while racing to stop the mysterious conspiracy that threatens to destroy millions of lives. Meanwhile, in Lakeview, a backup copy of Nathan has been activated and Ingrid’s not about Continue Reading
Sci-fi double: Invasion (S2, E4-5) + Foundation (S2, E9-10)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) EPISODE 4: “The Tunnel”You can understand why humanity is sitting on a high at this episode opens since it’s blown seven alien ships out of the sky thanks to coordinated nuclear strikes – go Mitsuki Yamato (Shioli Kutsuna) and your weird alien conversing ways and eerily Continue Reading
Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)
(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
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