SNAPSHOT After living in Denver for nearly a year, Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time to celebrate the wedding of old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s truly important to him. Starring Jonathan Continue Reading
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Brienne and Tormund in love: GoT’s cute new couple imagined as a 90s rom-com duo
Even in Game of Thrones, a show not exactly noted for its love stories or the longevity of those that somehow manage to fall in love in between scheming and plotting, death and explosive moments, it is possible for Cupid to get a look in. He may not get Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Sound the Alarm” (S2, E5 review)
*SPOILERS … AND A WHOLE LOT OF ABBIES INTENSITY GOING ON* So we witnessed the first strike for Abbies equality this week when it was revealed, via a neat sequence at the end of the episode, that all the males of the species are controlled, drone-like, by the females Continue Reading
What is the nature of your reality? Westworld plays with your conceptions
SNAPSHOT The one-hour drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can Continue Reading
Don’t cry for me Eurovision: Leonie Sii’s tips for coping with post-event depression
One thing that I discovered fairly quickly when I began watching the Eurovision Song Contest is that it’s impossible to simply view it and feel nothing. You either loathe and detest it (yes there are people out there that do believe it or not), or adore it and love Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Exit Strategy” (S2, E4 review)
*SPOILERS … AND THE ARRIVAL OF ABBIES ON CAROUSELS … NOT AS MUCH FUN AS YOU MIGHT THINK* So humanity continues to hold a knife to its throat in the latest instalment of everyone’s favourite dystopian future, Wayward Pines. On the surface, nothing too much dramatic happened; but Continue Reading
Shows we’d love to see #423: The Walking Dead holiday variety show!
Hurrah! The undead just got a little festive. Now before you imagine zombies with party hats and bonbons, carousing with wine and human flesh mince pies, consider what might happen if The Walking Dead put on its very own 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special show, one complete with appearances by Continue Reading
Hey Hodor, come and play the many games of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones title suggests many things – the perverse lengths many men and women will go to grab hold of the shiny brass ring of absolute power, the insanity of thinking that holding onto something as ephemeral as power will last any longer than a game, and whether Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Once Upon a Time in Wayward Pines” S3, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTASTEFUL SMELL OF DREAMS DYING* So dreams huh? Lovely things to hold onto, filling you with hope and expectation, great lyrical fodder for Disney musical songs or Hallmark cards, but a real nasty piece of work when they die and disappoint. Or if you’re Continue Reading
Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers
It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading