TV

  In general, I am not a fan of ads. Even if they are artistic triumphs, and the great ones often are, I’m not especially enamoured of giving air to brands that simply want to sell more product. The exceptions are the Christmas ads from various stores – c’mon it’s Continue Reading

  There’s a better than even chance that the first thing you think of when someone, say like me, says The Walking Dead, is not The Benny Hill Show. And fair enough too – one show is all about trying to avoid either becoming undead chow or grist for sociopathic Continue Reading

  Why are we here? What makes us, us? and why didn’t we didn’t think of inventing the wheels that make puling along suitcases so much easier these days? All very good questions, and all pondered to one degree or another by Stephen Colbert and Kermit in an segment on The Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LAKE FULL OF GROCERIES … YEAH DON’T ASK* The Walking Dead is a lot of things my friends – dramatic, touching, sad, scary, occasionally happy, doom-laden and portentous – but tonight it was also instructive in the ways of apocalypse etiquette. Yes etiquette, in Continue Reading

  No one likes to admit it outright but sometimes life can be pretty disappointing. You stack up your dreams and barely-whispered expectations in the hope they will lead somewhere special and when they don’t, you either have a choice to give up entirely or cobble together a rough approximation of Continue Reading

  Let’s hear it for the new neverending Golden Age of Television! While it does make keeping up with everything a challenge of neat Herculean proportions, it’s not a bad #firstworldproblem to have since it has effectively ended the reign of reality TV – yes, it’s still there but no longer Continue Reading

  SPOILERS FOLLOW … AND ZOMBIE HORDES SHAMBLING ALONG LIKE LONG PUPPIES   The more you watch The Walking Dead, which returned from its season 6 hiatus in spectacularly over the top zombies-to-the-left-zombies-to-the-right-and-right-in-front-of-you-oops-too-late fashion, the more you’re left with the unsettling realisation that Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his family Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT LOVE follows Gus and Mickey as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid. Having recently ended their respective dysfunctional relationships, Gus and Mickey meet each other by chance at a convenience store and forge a connection in the Continue Reading

  How far would you go for love? Or at least the idea of love? Hell, a skerrick of a thought of a glimpse of a whispered memory of love from 10 years previously? Probably not all that far on the last count but then you’re not Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Continue Reading