(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
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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)
(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 dread in ways 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
Show the world what love is made of: Thoughts on Heartstopper season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you were fortunate to grow up as an integral member of a mainstream social group, then you will be well acquainted with how good it is to feel like you truly belong somewhere. But if, like many of the characters in Alice Oseman’s wondrously good Heartstopper Continue Reading
To understand life, we must go back to the beginning: Life on our Planet teaser trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThis is the story of life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet, yet what we see is just a snapshot in time — 99% of earth’s inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The Continue Reading
Only Murders in the Building season 3 review: E1 (“The Show Must …”), E2 (“The Beat Goes On” and E3 (“Grab Your Hankies”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) “Cosy murder” is one of those deliciously contradictory genre labels that somehow leaves you feeling simultaneously alarmed and reassured. If you stop to think about it, there really isn’t anything truly comforting about murder which, it’s inherent life-ending qualities apart, suggests trauma, violence, pain, loss and soul-scarring Continue Reading