SNAPSHOT Van Helsing is set in a world dominated and controlled by vampires. Vanessa Helsing is the last hope for survival, as she unknowingly awakens to discover she has a unique blood composition that makes her not only immune to vampires, but with the ability to turn a vampire Continue Reading
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Wayward Pines: “Bedtime Story” (S2, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE END OF THE WORLD … AGAIN (SORT OF)* REM may have felt fine about the end of the world but not so much the morally-challenged folk of Wayward Pines who suddenly found just slightly less than half their number surplus to requirements. Yup, the Continue Reading
Smile! Bert and Grover are so hip they’re taking Instagram selfies
If you ever doubted how cool Bert and Grover are, and seriously why would you do such a horrible thing, then be sceptical no more. As it turns out, two of the mainstays of TV’s Sesame Street are very much to the social media groove, particularly that very funky Continue Reading
Hilarious! Blooper/sizzle reels from Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, iZombie
What I love most about blooper reels, especially the ones from shows that are normally Deadly Serious – in many cases, quite literally! – is that they give you delicious insight into the people making the shows. Characters who are usually the very epitome of angst and gravitas are Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: A bold new take on a long-running journey
We’re boldly going into space yet again. But don’t go looking for Kirk, Picard, Janeway or Sisko to show you the way. In the next television instalment in Gene Roddenberry’s idealistic vision of a spacefaring future free from war, discrimination and want – although as Deep Space Nine showed Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
There are very few things these days that get me as excited as a kid at Christmas but the imminent arrival of four new episodes of the Gilmore Girls, one of my favourite TV shows ever, penned no less than by the creator and chief scribe (not including season Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Walcott Prep” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS OVERLY INTIMATE MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS, NOT ENOUGH JUICE IN THE TANK AND ABBIE-FREE HOLIDAYS* It was back to the classics this week in Wayward Pines, nominated as the town most likely to be consumed by vengeful evolutionary anomalies by 10/10 apocalypse survivors, Continue Reading
Simon’s Cat and Elmo together? Sounds absolutely purr-fect!
SNAPSHOT A playful cat teaches Elmo all about cats. “Play like a Cat” is one of two episodes made in an exciting collaboration with Sesame Street. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I am a cat person; specifically a Simon’s Cat person. And I am also, if you’ve been paying attention Continue Reading
Poster me this! The Walking Dead characters posters radiate dread (+ trailer)
So the big question as we are await the start of The Walking Dead season 7 in three months time is … Who shot JR? Wait, wait, no … wrong decade and wrong show … BUT essentially the same dynamic – yes I have found a way to link Continue Reading
Colony: Welcome to season 2 of your occupation
Aliens huh? Nothing better to do it seems than spent eons crossing countless galaxy so they can invade Earth, enslave us and do with us as they will. It’s happened time and time again, fictionally at least, and you couldn’t be blamed for wondering if there is anything really Continue Reading