Stranger Things 2 is a slayer of pedestrian sequels. Ducking and weaving past the sophomore curse like a demogorgon on the hunt – or you’re Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matazrazzo), a “demo-dog” (yeah, no, it didn’t catch on) – the sequel to the Duffer Brothers zeitgeist-busting, watercooler-overwhelming show of 2016 Continue Reading
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#Halloween cartoon: Guillermo del Toro’s Treehouse of Horror Couch Gag #Simpsons
Now this is how you mark Halloween everyone! Particularly if you’re Matt Groening and you want your then-latest Treehouse of Horror intro – this was for the 2013 special – to include everything from zombies to mummies to mutants and apocalyptic visions of a hellish future. Hire master storyteller Continue Reading
Monster in the Mirror: Grover delightfully goes all wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo
Grover, my favourite monster in the world – yeah sorry Godzilla and the Demagorgon, you’re not even in the running – is a lot braver than most people think. Sure he may be spooked by monsters at the end of books, and get a little nervous when he is Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Choose Your Pain” (S1, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A BIT OF A MUDDY SITUATION … In “Choose Your Pain”, where Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), after being unceremoniously kidnapped by L’Rell (Mary Chieffo), finds himself in a Klingon call with a fellow Starfleet abductee, Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) and The Original Series rogue, Continue Reading
Want to paint a pumpkin? Bert and Ernie can (bickeringly) help you with that
SNAPSHOT Welcome to Backyard with Bert, a vlog hosted by your favorite Sesame Street duo: Bert and Ernie! In today’s vlog, Bert & Ernie are competing in the Pumpkin Painting Challenge where they’ll have to draw a self-portrait on their pumpkins…blindfolded! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Ernie and Bert have Continue Reading
The Library is alive! Let the amusing chaotic fun begin … (S4 trailer)
I have longed shows with a quirky, comedic bent that know they’re goofy and over the top and unselfconsciously run with it. Shows like Warehouse 13 and Eureka gave us punchy, emotionally-engaging storytelling and characters you cared about all bedded down in a wildly and colourfully zany premise, and Continue Reading
Shada: Tom Baker’s Doctor Who has been lost for a long, long time
SNAPSHOT “Shada” finds the Doctor in Cambridge working alongside companion Romana and retired Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, to defeat the evil alien Skagra who is attempting to steal the secrets to the prison planet, “Shada”. You would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact that Douglas Adams, the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” (S3, E13 & E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A GREAT BIG HELPING OF PARADISE LOST … Being a doublebanger finale, “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” was always going to be an epic, grand, monstrously big, finish to the exceptionally robust and compelling storytelling of Fear the Walking Dead. And so it proved, Continue Reading
Step into the delightfully raunchy 1950s world of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
SNAPSHOT Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a Jewish housewife living in New York City in 1958. Her husband, Joel, is a successful businessman who moonlights as a struggling comedian. Midge supports Joel, providing feedback about his sets, but becomes disillusioned when she discovers that Joel has stolen one Continue Reading
1984: A very weird year for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets Continue Reading