TV

  I have always liked my cartoons larger-than-life, super-absurd, colourful, silly and full of clever ideas and witty oversized characters. In other words, just like Nickolodeon’s ’90s classic Rocko’s Modern Life. Created by Joe Murray, who originally invented the character of Rocko the wallaby for a comic book series that Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Ozark is an upcoming American drama series created by Bill Dubuque. Jason Bateman will play financial planner Marty Bird, who suddenly relocates from a Chicago suburb to a summer resort community in the Missouri Ozarks, and who must pay off a debt to a Mexican drug lord, with Continue Reading

  Rick and Morty is, hands, and other sundry body parts, down, one of the most fabulously weird, gloriously and delightfully over the top cartoons on anywhere. There is nothing I don’t like about it – it’s witty, clever, gleefully crass, spectacularly imaginative (the world-building and characters are nothing short Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived. (Official Netflix synopsis) The arrival of Continue Reading

  Game of Thrones has always had a lushly cinematic quality, one that is likely to be come even more pronounced given report of movie-length episodes in season 7, which starts 16 July, and season 8, which lands in 2018. To underscore just how big, vast and visual the landmark Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … NOT TO MENTION POOR DECISION-MAKING, A NAKED GRAB FOR POWER AND A SHIPWRECKED YACHT As showcases for humanity go, I think we can all agree that the zombie apocalypse is not exactly anyone’s finest hour. In the double mid-season finale episodes, “The Unveiling” and “Children of Continue Reading

  When news broke back in May that Will & Grace would be coming back to NBC, its ancestral home where it played a huge, very funny role in helping the world at large to better understand what it means to be gay in today’s world, everyone (well, mostly everyone) Continue Reading

As decades go, the 1980s were, possibly even more than the lurid, out there ’70s, pretty hard to miss. Drenched in hypercolour T-shirt vivid pastels, decked out in lurid leggings and shoulder pads the height of Everest, this was a decade that screamed “Look at me dammit!” It was also Continue Reading