What does a Dalek’s tickle feel like? That may sound like an odd question to ask since the monstrous creations of Davros are more likely to exterminate than engage in mirth-filled jocularity, but it’s a play on the question asked by Adam Hargreaves back in 1971 (“What does a Continue Reading
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Welcome to Coal Hill Academy where Class is most definitely in!
SNAPSHOT What if your planet was massacred and you were the sole survivor? What if a legendary figure out of space and time found you a place to hide? But what if the things that want to kill you have tracked you down? And worst of all, what if you Continue Reading
First impressions: Flaked
There’s something oddly compelling about antiheroes. While they’re not as perfectly put-together as the Prince Charmings of this world, who take more than their fair share of damsels in distress and live happily ever after more often than not, they do have very important relatable quality – they are Continue Reading
Indoorsy: What hilariously happens when 3 agoraphobics open a spa in their apartment
Life as an agoraphobic isn’t easy. And while our ever-diversifying digital age offers all kinds of opportunities for the housebound, or in the case of a new web series, Indoorsy about three agoraphobic friends who open a day spa in their home, the apartment-bound to have amazing careers, run Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #4: “They Shoot Gilmores Don’t They?” (S3, E7 review)
It’s a sad fact of life but even in a town as magically quirky as Stars Hollow, where a Tennessee Williams look-a-like contest can put a bridge repair fund “right over the top” – thank you Taylor Doose (Michael Winters) – it’s still possible to have your heart broken. Yes, even Continue Reading
First impressions: MacGyver (2016)
TV storytelling, like that of any creative medium, is essentially the art of recycling of ideas that have seen the light of day many, many times before. Christopher Booker’s 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories proposed the existence of a finite number of story ideas, and Continue Reading
Haters Back Off! The hilariously deluded power of self-belief
SNAPSHOT Haters Back Off! is a television comedy series starring Colleen Ballinger, based on her character Miranda Sings, that centres around “the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that Continue Reading
The tricky business of being Humans (series 2 poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT In the second eight-part series, Synths all over the world are experiencing ‘a catastrophic malfunction’, or in Mattie’s words ‘waking up’ and questioning the status they’ve been afforded by humans. (synopsis via Den of Geek) From the “Uncanny Valley”, where people recoil from a computer-generated figure that looks Continue Reading
We’re back! Gilmore Girls take us behind-the-scenes of its A Year in the Life revival
If you weren’t already excited about returning to Stars Hollow, which now has its own website – one yet to be updated, thanks to Kirk’s lost password, but it’s there nonetheless and should be updated by the launch of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on 25 November 2016 Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #3: “Rory’s Birthday Parties” (S1, E6)
One of the enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is that throughout its seven season run it deftly combined a winning sense of quirkiness with real emotional resonance. Sure much of Lorelai’s (Lauren Graham) dialogue was peppered with witticism, quips and an almost inexhaustible supply of pop culture touch points, but Continue Reading