SNAPSHOTThe second season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard as he and his companions are trapped in the 21st century when reality is broken by Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard. They must race against time to save the future Continue Reading
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When it rains, she pours … Thoughts on The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
What a wild ride is The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window! An eight-episode series that sports the kind of title that would make Fiona Apple green with titular envy, The Woman in the House … is the brainchild of Rachel Ramras & Continue Reading
Our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope: HALO debuts its second sensational trailer
SNAPSHOTAliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. A live-action TV series based on the video game Halo. This new Halo series is created by and developed by Steven Kane (creator of The Last Ship, producer on The Closer and American Dad!) and Kyle Killen. The series scripts are Continue Reading
Trio of tantalising TV trailers: Severance, LOTR: The Rings of Power and The Cuphead Show!
Granted using the word “TV” is a tad redundant in this age of cord-cutting, antenna-banishing streaming but there’s still a great deal of affection for an object many people still use and which harkens back to a time when sitting down to watch visual entertainment didn’t amount to a massive Continue Reading
Embrace to chaos: The burred lines between reality and dreams in Moon Knight
SNAPSHOTThe series follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a Continue Reading
Every End is a New Beginning: Thoughts on After Life (S3)
Grief is a cruel and strangely capricious thing. One second you are right as rain, or as close to it as you get in the aftermath of great pain and loss, and the next? Well, the next you are lost again in all manner of deep and abiding sadness, the Continue Reading
Behind the scenes: Meet the REAL Lucky the Pizza Dog from Hawkeye
SNAPSHOTFormer Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail Continue Reading
A deserted moon base. A deadly mission. Thoughts on The Silent Sea
The very best science fiction stories are almost always searing explorations of what it means to be human. It doesn’t matter if they are set on a future Earth, out in the depths of interstellar space or on an alien planet, we bear witness to the very best and worst Continue Reading
Breathing life into our world: The Green Planet
SNAPSHOTDive into a world where a single life can last a thousand years, with David Attenborough. See things no eye has ever seen, and discover the dramatic, beautiful plant life of Earth. (synopsis courtesy BBC) There’s a lot going on in the world right now capable of crushing the human Continue Reading
‘An idealised Australian ethos’: why Bluey is an audience favourite, even for adults without kids
Liam Burke, Swinburne University of Technology; Djoymi Baker, RMIT University; Jessica Balanzategui, Swinburne University of Technology, and Joanna McIntyre, Swinburne University of Technology Bluey, the Emmy award-winning animated series about a family of anthropomorphized cattle dogs, has become a ratings phenomenon since it was first broadcast on the ABC in Continue Reading