Once of the great enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is the way in which it beautifully balanced the quirky joys of small town life, and specifically the BFF bubble within that inhabited by Lorelai and Rory (Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel respectively) with the reality that life is not always Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead: “The Well” (S7, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS RECOGNITION, MUCH OVERDUE AFTER LAST WEEK’S SHOCKING SEASON OPENER, THAT HUMANITY IS AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, ABOUT THE GOOD AS THE BAD* Thank god for The Kingdom! The new community encountered by Morgan (Lennie James) and Carol (Melissa McBride – to Continue Reading
The world is in trouble! Time to get to Sweet/Vicious
SNAPSHOT Starring Taylor Dearden (“Ophelia”) and Eliza Bennett (“Jules”), “Sweet/Vicious” is an offbeat superhero story for the millennial generation. Hell-bent on bringing justice to those who get away with abuse on their college campus, Jules and Ophelia take on double lives as wannabe vigilantes. Filled with clumsy attempts and Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #6: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (S3, E1 review)
If there is one thing the good, fast-talking, quip-ready people of Stars Hollow love, well more than yet another festival – First Annual Stars Hollow End of Summer Madness Festival anyone? It fills in September! Taylor Doose (Michael Winter) is well pleased – it’s having an opinion on something Continue Reading
I need coffee and donuts please – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life has a full trailer!
SNAPSHOT Three generations of Gilmore women grapple with change and the complicated bonds of family during one year in Stars Hollow. (official synopsis via Netflix) Rejoice and be glad fellow Stars Hollow-ians! For Lorelai (Lauren Graham), Rory (Alexis Bledel), Luke (Scott Patterson), Sookie (Melissa McCarthy), Emily (Kelly Bishop), Lane Continue Reading
First impressions: Class (S1, E1 “For Tonight We Might Die” and E2 “The Coach With the Dragon Tattoo”)
High school is either the best of times or the worst of times, to roughly paraphrase Dickens, but the one thing on which can likely agree is that, coupled with the wholesale changes brought on by being a teenager, it comes with its unique set of challenges. Overbearing parents, peer Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” (S7, E1 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AN ORGIASTIC CELEBRATION OF VIOLENCE SUCH AS YOU”VE NEVER SEEN … AND THE WORST STAND-UP COMEDY EVER* Ever since Fonzie gunned his motorcycle and sent himself flying over a shark full of tanks in a scene generally recognised as the narrative nadir of Happy Continue Reading
Earth illuminated: The breathtaking beauty of Planet Earth II (documentary)
It can be safely said that the gold standard for nature documentaries rests with the BBC’s Natural History Unit and it’s rightly-revered longtime presenter and narrator Sir David Attenborough. Time and again the Natural History Unit and Attenborough have demonstrated a fierce and palpable enthusiasm for the natural world Continue Reading
Expanding bloody worlds: The Walking Dead season 7 changes everything (featurette)
The great defining moment from the final episode of season 6 was Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) standing in pouring rain in the middle of the night readying his barbed-wire baseball Lucille to rain down bloody death on one of Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) crew. We didn’t see who died but Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #5: “Nick & Nora / Sid & Nancy” (S2, E5 review)
If you ever wanted a master class in how to kick off an episode of dramatic TV with as many character and narrative boxes ticked as humanly possible without it all feeling too busy or rushed, then the opening scene in “Nick & Nora / Sid & Nancy”, crafted Continue Reading