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
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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
Tease me with trailers! Grace & Frankie, Silicon Valley, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt debut new season promos
Ah, the magnetic lure of new seasons of our favourite TV shows! Is there anything better than being given a view, however fleeting, of what lies in store for characters we have to come to know and love? Sure we want all the episodes at once, yesterday even, but that’s Continue Reading
Colony: “Company Man” / “Fallout” (S2, E5 & E6 review)
No one ever said having aliens surreptitiously invade Earth under the guise of a secretive coterie of powerful collaborating human overseers would be easy. Actually to be fair no one said that at all, but in “Company Man” and “Fallout” we witness the complexities of life under the Raps, the Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Rock in the Road” (S7, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … ABD BBQ’D ZOMBIE ROADKILL* Ladies and gentlemen step right up, step right up! It’s time to play everyone’s favourite apocalyptic game “Kill the REALLY Bad Guy!” Yes, yes we’ve played it many times before, to varying degrees of success, but the rules are essentially the Continue Reading
First Impressions: Legion
At one key point in this utterly remarkable, highly-original and deliriously imaginative show, the protagonist, David Haller (Dan Stevens), an Omega-level mutant on the run from as yet-unnamed Bad Guys stops and asks his girlfriend/rescuer from certain death, Sydney Barrett (Rachel Keller), “Is this real?” Granted they’re fleeing for Continue Reading