As Gilmore Girls continued on its quirky merry way into its later seasons, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show gradually got darker and darker. Not The Wire or Sopranos darker obviously because frankly where would be the fun in that, but darker nonetheless, with a willingness to leave characters hanging in the Continue Reading
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Freeze Big Bird! Sesame Street takes up the mannequin challenge
Demonstrating once again that they are hip to the viral groove, Sesame Street has taken up the Mannequin Challenge, which according to the good people at Wikipedia is “a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a video is recorded, usually with the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Hong Kong Phooey
Hong Kong Phooey is yet another of Hanna-Barbera’s long line of cartoon creations that seems to have had a far longer on-screen life than he actually did. In truth, the entire series which is comprised of 16 episodes which in turn broke down into 2 sub-episodes, only ran for a Continue Reading
First impressions: Love (E1 “It Begins” and E2 “One Long Day”)
It was ABBA who once sang, in one of their more obscure early releases, that “Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. In a nutshell it summed up everything that many of us feel about love. On the surface love is all wine and roses, romantic dinners with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Service” (S7, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE VILLAINOUS QUIPS PER SQUARE METRE THAN A BOND VILLAIN CONVENTION* Like a broken record played over and over and over again by a zombie instinctively remembering they once loved this thing called “moo-zik”, the producers of The Walking Dead endlessly regale us with Continue Reading
Bodies of clay: Rick and Morty’s The Non-Canonical Adventures
Rick and Morty, from the hilariously fetid, gloriously imaginatively trippy minds of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, is one of the best animated series to emerge in recent years. Not only does it sport brilliantly-realised characters who are over the top dysfunctional but authentically and humourously human, and a premise Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #8: “Raincoats and Recipes” (S4, E22)
On the surface, “Raincoats and Recipes”, which finished off a busy and sometimes tumultuous fourth season for Gilmore Girls, was all about Lorelai (Lauren Graham) finally opening her own inn, a 20 year old dream that finally found fruition in concert with close friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy). But it Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “The Cell” (S7, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … WALKERS LYING DOWN ON THE JOB AND DEALS WITH THE DEVIL AKA NEGAN COMING BACK TO BITE YOU ON THE PROVERBIAL* The zombie apocalypse is generally not the kind of situation that if you would think of as boring, predictable or rut-like. Existentially excoriating yes. Continue Reading
Falling Water: What if your dreams are not your own?
SNAPSHOT An intersection between reality and unconscious thought, FALLING WATER is the story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious. However, the more Continue Reading
Fantastic worlds beneath: Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters
SNAPSHOT Trollhunters follows 15-year-old Jim (Anton Yelchin) and his two best friends, Toby (Charlie Saxton) and the benevolent troll Blinky (Kelsey Grammer), who make the startling discovery that beneath their hometown lies a hidden battle between good trolls and bad. Ron Perlman also lends his voice as Bular, a Continue Reading