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
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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
Falling Skies: “Hatchlings” (S5, E3 review)
*SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND LAST DITCH OVERLORDS AHEAD* There’s nothing like a walk in the countryside is there? All that fresh, bracing air, the inspiring views, the sense that you are away from everyone and everything … well, that is, unless, of course you’re Rage Tom Continue Reading
Crossovers! When TV show worlds collide
You can never get too much of a good thing right? Of course not! It’s an ethos that has fuelled many an all-night party, a weekend-long TV watching binge on Netflix and crossover episodes, where “two or more TV shows [are revealed] to exist in the same fictional universe” (according Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Hunger Pains” (S5, E2 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS … AND SKITTERS … AND SKITTERS … AND MORE SKITTERS AHEAD * So there goes dinner … Starving and insanely short on good old edibles after an unexpected suicide Skitter attack, one of many waves of seemingly feral Skitter attacks to plague the 2nd Mass. Continue Reading