Everyone, well almost everyone, loves their mums. And on Mothers Day we go out of our way to make sure mum feels special, spoiled and even more loved than normal. (You all know this whole mother appreciation thing should be a year round event right? Good, just checking.) So it is Continue Reading
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Life is a poisoned chalice in Tom Hardy’s Taboo
SNAPSHOT Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Blood in the Streets” (S2, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SURPRISING, AND ALAS NOT-SO-SURPRISING REVELATIONS* So it turns that Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) has a beating heart after all. True it’s a little twisted and self-serving and gruff and … but it’s THERE people and beating furiously for his one true love Tom Abigail (Dougray Continue Reading
The Simpsons go Disney in latest hilarious couch gag
The Simpsons couch gags are damn near legendary. For 27 seasons, the show hailed by The A. V. Club as “television’s crowning achievement regardless of format”, has begun each episode with a humorous depiction of the show’s titular working class family settling into their living room ready to watch TV. Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Ouroboros” (S2, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND APOCALYPTIC SHOPPING … AND WELL-TRAVELLED WALKERS* As the fractious passengers of the Victor Strand (Colman Domingo)-helmed, good ship Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t aka Abigail sailed down the Californian coast, it became patently obvious that there’s not a lot of trust going Continue Reading
Side by side: The first and last frames of classic TV shows
When you commit to watching a TV show, particular a long-running one, you become so enmeshed in its ups and downs, its narrative stepping stones and the growth and change of its characters, that it’s hard to remember what it was all like at the beginning. You grow with Continue Reading
Happy London Eurovision Party! Recap from VIP guest blogger Christoph Fischer
In recent years The Eurovision Song Contest has staged a series of parties at select cities throughout Europe to build up excitement and momentum ahead of the event itself and to extend the Eurovision season a little bit further than one stellar week in May. This year, parties were Continue Reading
Flagstones! It’s the Flagstones! They’re the modern Stone Age … wait, what what now?!
While some of the more obscure Hanna-Barbera characters such as Squiddly Diddly or Jabberjaw may not very well known among the general public, there’s one family, a “Modern Stone Age Family” in fact, who everyone will instantly recognise – The Flintstones. But The Flintstones didn’t start out life as Continue Reading
VEEP season 5: More fun and games in the corridors of misused power
Being the President of the United States is not an easy undertaking. Especially when, as we saw at the end of season 4 of VEEP, you’re Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and your dream run to the presidency is rather cruelly complicated by ending up with the same number of Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “We All Fall Down” (S2, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BEACH-GOING ZOMBIES AND CREEPY ODD SURVIVALISTS* “We don’t talk to strangers” (Victor Strand) Remember when you were a sweet, trusting child and your parents instilled in you over and over that talking to strangers was a Bad Thing? It was pronounced in the sort Continue Reading