Rick and Morty own the zeitgeist. OK maybe not all of it but what with creative direction from Mr Community himself Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, an imaginative pallette that knows no bounds, Earthly or otherwise, and insanely quotable quotes and memorable visuals, they at least a fairly significant Continue Reading
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Wayward Pines: “Enemy Lines” (S2, E1 review)
Good old humanity. Even when they’re handed a nice bright and shiny chance to save themselves, they manage to soil it, scuff it and break in two, all the while holding a knife to their own throats. The good citizens of Wayward Pines, trapped in a future oasis of Continue Reading
The Simpsons build a couch IKEA-style courtesy of Michal Socha’s couch gag
Ah, IKEA furniture. Looks funky and modern and lots of people own at least one of its pieces (including me) but my lord its a thousand kinds of evil clowns in a car to put together. The devilry of putting together your latest IKEA bookcase or cupboard is something Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Shiva” (S2, E7 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … A ZOMBIE MEAT-TASTING PARTY AND MORE UNHINGED BEHAVIOUR THAN A HOUSE FULL OF LOOSE DOORS* It won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone that zombie apocalypses – or as Celia (Marlene Forte) rather delusionally calls them “new beginnings”; yep thanks, you can keep your Continue Reading
Grab some string and gum and make a nuclear reactor! MacGyver is back
SNAPSHOT In MacGyver, the twentysomething Mac is behind the formation of a new (but not necessarily publicized) government organization where he can showcase his amazing knack for using science and critical thinking to solve any problem that comes his way. And as you might imagine, some of those problems Continue Reading
Loving living the living life: USA makes a Colbert-inspired bid for Eurovision inclusion
It may come as a surprise to many but until this year the Eurovision Song Contest had never been broadcast in the USA. Hard to believe but true. Granted there is so much going on within America pop culture-wise that getting on the radar there can be an almost Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (poster and title reveal)
Waiting for the chance to return to Stars Hollow is proving well nigh interminable with the Gilmore Girls scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime later this year. But at least we now have a title – thanks to an announcement by Lauren Graham on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (see Continue Reading
New crews, new worlds: Star Trek’s big vision of space is coming back to the small screen
(Image via YouTube (c) CBS) We’re boldly going places we’ve never gone before AGAIN! Yes, granted Star Trek never really went away, its absence on the small screen made up for, in part at least, by a series of movies on the big screen, the latest of which Star Continue Reading
Oh hell yeah I wanna go to The Good Place
Ah yes the Afterlife. Many of us believe in it in some form or another – the ancient Egyptians gave Tutankhamen at entire tomb of gilded objects to make his transition there as rich and luxurious as possible – quite a lot of us don’t but you can be Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Sicut Cervus” (S2, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIE-OBSESSED PEOPLE WITH AN UNNATURAL AFFINITY TO DEATH* So the apocalypse huh? Can’t live with its side-effects – all those pesky, flesh-craving zombies and humanity’s basest desires writ large – and you can’t hang onto your sanity. Well, not if you’re Chris (Lorenzo James Continue Reading