SPOILERS, DRONES AND VINTAGE PLANES, OH MY AHEAD It’s time to dig out all your analogue antiques everyone! While you may love your smartphone, adore your tablet computer and feel joined at the hip to your Netflix subscription, the truth of the matter is that, come the alien apocalypse, all Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: “Say Yes” & “Bury Me Here” (S7, E12 & E13 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUN FAIR ZOMBIES AND BACKPACKS, OMINOUS DEATHLY BACKPACKS* Given that I’ve already made liberal use of the Dickensian idea of a tale of a two episodes, it seems only fair that I not repeat myself by riffing on the same thing, though goodness knows The Continue Reading
Dance your way from A to Z with Disco Grover!
SNAPSHOT Step aside and let the King show you how it’s done. Grover is the King of ABC Disco and he is going to boogie oogie oogie through all twenty-six letter of the alphabet. Watch him get down! I have long been a fan of the absolutely impressive, endlessly Continue Reading
Colony: “Free Radicals” / “Good Intentions” (S2, E7 & E8 review)
“Either some of us die, or all of us die; you get the honour of deciding which of those it’s going to be. ” (Alan Snyder to Bram) It’s been fairly obvious for some time that the time was coming when people would have to make a choice that Continue Reading
Cookie Monster and the delicious history of cookies #nomnomnom
SNAPSHOT Kids try 100 years of cookies with special guest Cookie Monster including mallomars, sugar cookies, nutter butters, macarons, and more. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you wanted to learn everything you could be about the last 100 years of cookies, and why wouldn’t you, then the person to Continue Reading
Fascinating fan theories: How The Walking Dead may end
All good things must come to an end. Even the undead shambling across the decaying remains of civilisation items. But while Robert Kirkman says he knows (of course) how the comic strip/TV series will come to an end, and there is high likelihood they will end in different ways, he Continue Reading
Love is coming to town again on Netflix
SNAPSHOT It’s worth a shot. Mickey and Gus face commitment and all that comes with it as they attempt to bring order to their chaotic lives. (synopsis via Netflix) Falling in love is thrilling. Nerve-wracking, crazy, unsettling, glorious, and if all goes well, something special for the long haul. Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: The whimsically beautiful visuals of Legion
One of the most striking things about FX’s new Marvel series Legion, quite apart from its imaginative out-of-the-box storytelling and its intriguing characters, is its strikingly unique visuals. Mixing together a myriad of influences from Wes Anderson’s whimsically quirky rich colour palettes to wacky 1960s films like Yellow Submarine Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “New Best Friends” / “Hostiles and Calamities” (S7, E10 & E11)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RATHER TOO INTIMATELY ENGAGED WITH THEIR GARBAGE* This is an apocalyptically Dickensian tales of two episodes. One, “New Best Friends”, played reasonably strongly to The Walking Dead‘s strengths, giving us an interesting character study of how far study of how far Father Continue Reading
Will being told the minor key way to Sesame Street make you happily sad? It just might
One of the most noticeable and much-loved parts of Sesame Street, which is currently in the midst of its 47th season and now broadcast on HBO, is its extraordinarily upbeat theme song which asks eager boys and girls (and let’s be honest more than a few adults) “Can you Continue Reading