SNAPSHOT It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then – to patrol the Dover army base – is a Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: “Respite” (S5, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AND OLD MACDONALD’S ESPHENI-FREE FARM AHEAD* There was an air of the Britney Spears about Falling Skies this week. And no, I don’t mean the entire 2nd Mass. dressed up in schoolgirl outfits and sashayed with pouts big enough to swallow an entire football team past rows Continue Reading
Small screen specials: My 5 favourite TV sitcom characters
I am pretty sure that someone somewhere, most likely my mother, or Big Bird, said with grave solemnity that you should never ever play favourites. Something to do with feelings getting hurt, people getting marginalised, and people starving over in Ethiopia (wait, no, that last one was for something Continue Reading
Talk to me! The New Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show interviews history (all of it)
Isn’t it a wonderful thing when treasured characters from your childhood spring forth back into the zeitgeist, looking and acting pretty much as you knew them with a few judiciously-executed, simpatico modern flourishes? Indeed it is, and much rejoicing is had. Such a welcome, and alas rare occurrence is Continue Reading
How about You, Me & the Apocalypse baby? (trailer)
Forget the vampires (The Strain), the zombies (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Z Nation), aliens (Falling Skies and Defiance) and nuclear armageddon (Jericho). What we really should be worrying about, say the producers of new TV comedy/drama You, Me & the Apocalypse are great big fiery comets crashing Continue Reading
Time is ticking tocking away for Continuum in the trailer for its final season
Why syfy why?! (*add agonised wailing and gnashing of teeth, and if you’re Old Testament Biblically-inclined, maybe even some sackcloth and ashes; yes it’s that serious) Why must you end series so earlier in their runs? Why shoot the horse – relax! It’s a metaphorical horse – before it’s Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Non-Essential Personnel” (S5, E5 review)
*SPOILERS AND BALD, GRIEF-STRICKEN SOCIOPATHS AHEAD* It’s official! Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) is now our Messiah. (Sorry Jesus, Buddha, and Sponge Bob Squarepants but the aliens have spoken and there’s nothing we can do to dissuade them apparently). And not just any Messiah either, nosirree Cochise. He has been anointed Continue Reading
Get on and up dance Ned Stark! Games of Thrones now has a catchy dance remix
Life is Westeros is not usually a lot of fun for its inhabitants. Sure people occasionally fall in love … well not for long but you know it happens … and they hold weddings … and um, OK moving on … and they don’t get eaten by White Walker Continue Reading
A trio of TV trailers: Colony, The Expanse, The Shannara Chronicles
Back in 1979, Rupert Holmes released a song called “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” which mused that all you really needed was a shared love of Piña Coladas, getting caught in the rain, and making love in the dunes at midnight to effectively get away from the banality of the Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Pope Breaks Bad” (S5, E4 review)
*THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … SPOILERS I TELL YOU! AND A BALD POPE (NO, NOT THAT ONE)* Let’s us all agree here and now shall we that Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) would make a lousy therapist? Possessed of the emotional tact of a phalanx of tanks rolling across a Continue Reading