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
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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
A trio of TV trailers: No Tomorrow, Downward Dog, Frequency
We are officially in the new Golden Glut of TV. Yes I know I am supposed to say “golden age” and yes it is in many ways, but when your cable PVR and Netflix (and in Australia) Stan are crying out for viewing attention to the point where you Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Pass Judgement” (S2, E8 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GUNSHOTS, MISTIMED TEENAGE PASSION AND A FEMALE ABBIE WITH MORE STREET SMARTS THAN YOUR THE AVERAGE BEAR* Let’s hear it for the new Wayward Pines cardio programme! With life in the prettiest apocalypse ever – make no mistake, old-fashioned US town notwithstanding, that humanity has Continue Reading
Grace and Frankie: A whole new definition of “It’s Complicated”
On a scale of things you really don’t want happening to you late in life, when the kids are grown, you finally have the time to pursue your passions and work is close to being a distant memory, having your partner leave you for someone else would have to rank Continue Reading
Scooby Doo: So You Think You Know Cartoons? Think again
I have loved Scooby Doo since the first time I set sight on the snack-loving goofy Great Dane and his four human mystery-solving cohorts. There was, and still is, something inestimably wonderful about the inherent silliness of the premise, and all its many recurring jokes from the “And I Continue Reading
Life can surprise you: Get yourself ready for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. (official synopsis via Netflix) If there is one thing that Steven Spielberg has taught us through his vast catalogue of otherworldly though grounded in heartfelt humanity Continue Reading
They’re alive, dammit! The giddy forward momentum of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
It can be hard to do optimistic well. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, movie or TV series or even a song, too much sugary goodness in the characters (or the narrative) doesn’t so much help the medicine go down as turn people off the unendingly upbeat character. It’s not Continue Reading
Death Knows No Borders: Fear the Walking Dead returns 22 August (promo + poster)
So the zombie apocalypse huh? It starts off with everyone all united, working together to get out of the damned death-filled hellhole that L.A. has become, and everything’s fine – well as fine as the end of the world can be which let’s be honest is really not fine Continue Reading