Back in the glory of days yore when TV series ran for multiple seasons and came with burgeoning episode counts, they made a lot of TV. I mean, a LOT of TV. Which is how Star Trek: Next Generation, which brought Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future back Continue Reading
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Saturday morning cartoons: Mr Benn
Supposedly the much-revered ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once said “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man”. While it’s not absolutely true, of course, since life is way too messy and cruel sometimes to keep that 7-year-old in absolutely pristine condition, there Continue Reading
All life is born from chaos: Star Trek Discovery tries to bring some order
SNAPSHOT Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself. The series will feature a new ship, new characters Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Minotaur” / “Diviner” (S3, E9 & E10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME TECTONIC SHIFTS IN POWER … AND SHOPPING …YES SHOPPING From the beginning – both of the show and the apocalypse it so brilliantly documents – Fear the Walking Dead has excelled at exploring what humanity is like under stress. I mean, extreme, world-ending, civilisation-collapsing, Continue Reading
A queen beats a straight every time: Will & Grace returns (new trailer)
I am always torn when a TV show I once loved or a long-dormant movie franchise comes back from the pop culture dead. On the one hand, my inner fan boy/girl/pop culture tragic is cartwheeling its way across the park, exuberantly happy to be reunited with old televisual friends. Continue Reading
MANAMANA! Feast your eyes and ears on the original 1969 version of the iconic song
(image via YouTube (c) Sesame Workshop) Sesame Street is justifiably famous for a great many things. Its still-necessary mission to educate the children of the world through bold and imaginative means, its hilarous parodies of all kind of pop culture moments (complete with rteachable moments) … and of course, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead S3b: There’s a whole new apocalypse in town
If you think the apocalypse was challenging up to this point for Madison (Kim Dickens), son & daughter Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) respectively, Daniel (Rubén Blades) and Victor (Colman Domingo) then by the looks of the latest trailer for Fear the Walking Dead season 3 part Continue Reading
Is that you Kermie? The Muppets most recognisable face gets a brand new voice
What this? Kermit the Frog embroiled in a nasty juicy scandal that doesn’t also feature Miss Piggy? When news broke that the man who had voiced one of the most beloved Muppets out there for over 25 years (since creator Jim Henson’s death in 1990), Steve Whitmire, had been Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “The Dragon and the Wolf” (S7, E7 review) #seasonfinale
SPOILERS AHEAD … ZOMBIES AND BROTHERS AND LITTLEFINGER OH MY! You know how wonderful it is how, after an astonishingly long period of bitter estrangement, a family comes back together again, mends broken bonds, speaks words of healing, and they all become one big happy again? No? Well, you’re Continue Reading
The answer is always YES: Words of wisdom from Cookie Monster’s Joy of Cookies book
Life can be a tad tricky to navigate at times. Oh who are we kidding? It can be freaking impossible much of the time, and so, we look to those with wisdom, experience, special insights and well-earned truth to guide us. As figures of authority go, you can’t do Continue Reading