At this stage of Star Trek’s just over 50 year old journey into the stars and the depths of humanity’s soul, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anywhere left to boldly go where we haven’t already boldly gone before. After all, from Captain Kirk to Archer, Continue Reading
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Tough tonsillectomy or are you just not that Happy! (teaser promo)
Happy!, by writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson, is one very dark graphic novel. Mainly because its protagonist Nick (Chris Meloni), a bitter, angry, corrupt ex-cop-turned-dirty private investigator who never quite got over the death of his wife, is a man for whom the glass is not simply Continue Reading
Gaga: Five Foot Two reveals that stardom is not always a personal nirvana
SNAPSHOT In Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga narrates how loneliness has pervaded her life as a star. It also shows scenes of her struggling with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, as well as a snippet of an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in which she lists a Continue Reading
Someone get the man a calendar! Superstore S3 debuts featurette
Superstore is one of those little-engine-that-could sitcoms that often flies under the radar, dependably delivering up ratings without ever really setting the criticasl world on fire. Granted, it’s not, nor will it ever be a Frasier or an All in the Family classic but it is definitely a cut Continue Reading
Reunited and it feels so festively good: Happy bonkers Christmas from French and Saunders
Apart from Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, my favourite comedic couple in the world is French and Saunders. After meeting as students in 1978 at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have gone onto stellar careers, reaching a collective zenith Continue Reading
Take a deep breath! Here comes Young Sheldon
SNAPSHOT The show is the story of a young Sheldon Cooper (Ian Armitage), a character Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons made famous in the long-running series. The series is narrated by Parsons as the adult Sheldon, and takes on some of the stories about his childhood that he’s told Continue Reading
Life is hilariously bleak in O-Town: Rocko’s Modern Life in comics
Fresh from news that ’90s animation stalwart, Rocko is coming back for a very modern TV special, where he has to contend with all the weirdass blessing and curses of modern life, comes the welcome announcement that the humorously well-intentional but life-inept wallaby from O-Town is being given a Continue Reading
Big Mouth: When the hormone monsters strike #Netflix
SNAPSHOT A surreal animated comedy series from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show, The League) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy) that explores teenage adventures in puberty. The series uses the voice talents of John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “La Serpiente” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE BASEST PARTS OF HUMANITY, BOTH COLORECTAL AND OF THE SOUL … “La Serpiente” was a really shitty episode. No, I mean, really … shit everywhere as Madison (Kim Dickens), Victor (Colman Domingo) and Qaletaqa Walker (Michael Greyeyes) followed the shhhhh! super-secret squirrel route into Continue Reading
Planting potatoes and dreaming: New Moomins animated series arrives 2019
The Moomins, Finn Tove Jansson’s delightfully philosophical creations who have been making our lives infinitely richer since 1945, will be given a new animated lease on life courtesy of an overwhelmingly oversubscribed Indiegogo campaign by Finnish company Gutsy Animation. The pitch, which aims to deliver 13 new 22-minute mixed Continue Reading