Those wise pop cultures sages ABBA observed very early on in their career that “Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)”, a sentiment as true now as it was in 1973. And while Match Not Found, a web series by playwright Alex Oates and actress Katie Sheridan Continue Reading
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Eurovision 2016 wrap-up: Who saw that winner coming?!
Well cover me in a glitter and call me a poorly-synchronised back up dancer but you could’ve knocked me, and I suspect much of Europe over with a very small feather when the Ukraine was announced as the winner of this year’s event. Talk about coming out of left Continue Reading
Back on the small screen again: First trailer for new Peanuts TV show
Peanuts, Charles Schulz’s beloved comic, is back on TV! Fresh from its triumphant return to the big screen in last year’s The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and the gang are back on the small screen in a new series that started screening on Boomerang on 9 May. Continue Reading
Where to now humanity? Wayward Pines season 2
Humanity is so ungrateful isn’t it? I mean, here it is – SPOILERS! – saved by one, admittedly singularly-obsessed man, Dr. Jenkins (Toby Jones) from certain cataclysmic annihilation, sealed off in an “idyllic” town well into the future (try somewhere around 4020) , safe from the mutant “Abbies” (short for Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Captive” (S2, E5 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AN ANGRY THREATENING BULLY, GUY MOST LIKELY TO DIE NEXT … AND THE CRUMBLING SHARDS OF HUMANITY* Hello do-what-you-must apocalypse, goodbye lingering vestiges of civilisation! OK it wasn’t quite that dramatic but not by much. In an episode where Madison (Kim Dickens) had to go all Continue Reading
Happy Mother’s Day! My 3 favourite TV mums
Everyone, well almost everyone, loves their mums. And on Mothers Day we go out of our way to make sure mum feels special, spoiled and even more loved than normal. (You all know this whole mother appreciation thing should be a year round event right? Good, just checking.) So it is Continue Reading
Life is a poisoned chalice in Tom Hardy’s Taboo
SNAPSHOT Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Blood in the Streets” (S2, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SURPRISING, AND ALAS NOT-SO-SURPRISING REVELATIONS* So it turns that Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) has a beating heart after all. True it’s a little twisted and self-serving and gruff and … but it’s THERE people and beating furiously for his one true love Tom Abigail (Dougray Continue Reading
The Simpsons go Disney in latest hilarious couch gag
The Simpsons couch gags are damn near legendary. For 27 seasons, the show hailed by The A. V. Club as “television’s crowning achievement regardless of format”, has begun each episode with a humorous depiction of the show’s titular working class family settling into their living room ready to watch TV. Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Ouroboros” (S2, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND APOCALYPTIC SHOPPING … AND WELL-TRAVELLED WALKERS* As the fractious passengers of the Victor Strand (Colman Domingo)-helmed, good ship Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t aka Abigail sailed down the Californian coast, it became patently obvious that there’s not a lot of trust going Continue Reading