(courtesy IMP Awards) If religious dogma and legalistic ideology prove anything, it’s that a good many people like their beliefs neatly binary and plainly explained. They also want to believe, to an almost amusingly delusional degree, that the institutions charged with keeping those beliefs sustained and upheld are perfect and Continue Reading
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Back to Point Place: That ’90s Show Part 2 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Sitcoms are funny things. And we don’t mean in the obvious sense; yes, done well, they should be laughfests that lift the heavy burden of the everyday and leave you feeling like, yes, life’s great dilemmas and problems can be easily solved in just 20 or so Continue Reading
During #ChristmasInJuly 2024 I decorated my tree with 10 pop culture ornaments incl. Popeye, Grover, 101 Dalmatians, Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, The Partridge Family + more
(courtesy IMP Awards) Yes, my friends, I put up a Christmas in July tree. Well, to be fair, it’s a plain white tree that sits on a table in our loungeroom all year round and which is bedecked in Christmas ornaments in July and December (and yes, just into February Continue Reading
Boldly going where no Starfleet person has gone before … Star Trek: Prodigy S1 and S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 1Thanks to the raw viewing immediacy that streaming offers, it doesn’t take much for any would-be watcher of a series to be left far behind, very quickly. There is, simply out, way more content than there are hours in the waking day, and by a considerable Continue Reading
Fun and darkness in time and space: The cosmic joyride of Doctor Who S14 (review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Doctor Who S14 aka S2 Do not let the bright and breezy, Roxette-ish tagline on the promo poster fool you! Season 14 of the revived Doctor Who series – also treated as season one or two (honestly who can tell?) for the purposes of the show’s new Continue Reading
One-episode review: Star Wars: Acolyte (S1, E5) and a big Sith reveal!
(courtesy IMP Awards) The storySo that was a LOT! Still on the largely jungle planet of Khofar where the bugs are so big you’d need a lorry full of insect repellent to keep them away, and yes, a lightsaber or two, we witnessed the arrival of Mae’s master who came Continue Reading
The mystery deepens: Review of Star Wars: The Acolyte E3 “Destiny” and E4 “Day”
(courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 3 “Destiny” WHAT HAPPENEDForce witches everyone! In this episode, Star Wars, which has always embraced the light and dark of its supernatural underpinnings gave grading and nuance to this duality, introducing Force practitioners, all women, who are not evil and have a strict, if spookily expressed, Continue Reading
Comedy/dramedy roundup: Loot (S2, E6-10), Not Dead Yet (S2, E6-10) and Big Door Prize (S2, E5-10)
(via Shutterstock) Loot (S2, E6-10) WHAT HAPPENEDIn the back half of the season, Loot manages to go to some expected and wholly unexpected places. Let’s start with the obvious stuff such as the simmering romance between Molly Wells (Maya Rudolph) and her accountant at the Well Foundation, Arthur, played by Continue Reading
Hello TV shows! My three favourite AppleTV+ opening credits right now
(via Shutterstock) Opening credits once upon a time were a big thing, almost as big deal as the show they introduced and often encapsulating the premise of the show is one handy, very musical package. But while the golden age of opening sequences might be long gone, there are still Continue Reading
Something sinister this way comes … Review of Star Wars: The Acolyte (S1, E1-2)
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you ever wondered, and honestly haven’t we all at one point or another, what it would be like if you blasted Agatha Christie into space where she played Cluedo/Clue (a Jedi master in hyperspace with a lightsaber) and got to sleuthing with Sherlock Holmes and far Continue Reading