(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTOrion (Jacob Tremblay) seems a lot like your average elementary school kid – shy, unassuming, harboring a secret crush. But underneath his seemingly normal exterior, Orion is a ball of adolescent anxiety, completely consumed by irrational fears of bees, dogs, the ocean, cell phone waves, murderous gutter Continue Reading
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Sitcom double: Frasier 2023 (S1, E5-6) and Upload (S3, E5-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Frasier 2023 (S1, E5-6) One of the interesting things that come into play when a much-loved character comes out of hiatus is that you watch to see how much of what we loved about them is retained and how much of a new persona is forged in Continue Reading
Wrapping things up: Still Up (S1, E5-8) and Star Trek: Lower Decks (S1, E8-10)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) Still Up (S1, E5-8) The will-they, wont-they dance of the first half of the debut season of Still Up, naturally ramps up considerably in the back half but this being a British series, things don’t quite play out as rom-com obvious as you might assume. In Continue Reading
Survival against impossible extraterrestrial odds: Invasion ends its second season with hope … and not? (S2, E6-10)
(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
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