SNAPSHOT Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Robert Jimenez’s amazing art for Firefly the Verse trading cards
Firefly, a show that only last 14 episodes before being cancelled by Fox, in one of the greatest misjudgements in TV history (and so say all of us!), continues to grow from strength to strength. With a passionate fan base known as The Browncoats behind it every step of Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Reunion” (S5, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD AND ALL THE DORNIA GEEWHIZ-NESS YOU COULD WANT * So first things first – the 2nd Mass. is still in Virginia at the rather charmingly-named 14th Stalag Virginia (OK that’s not it’s real name but even with Faux Captain Marshall gone, I think we can all agree that’s Continue Reading
Give my regards to Broadway! The history of musical episodes on TV
Ella Fitzgerald once remarked that “the only thing better than singing is more singing” and while it’s sentiment a lot of musicians would quote naturally subscribe to, it’s not been as commonly embraced on TV which has traditionally tended to keep it storytelling reasonably song-free. But as the latest as-always Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “So Close, Yet So Far” (S1, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SCHOOL LOOKING JUST THE WAY YOU FANTASISED IT MIGHT … THE WORLD THOUGH? NOT SO MUCH.* If ever an episode title aptly captured the storyline within, it’s this one. No matter how hard Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Madison (Kim Dickens) tried to bring their Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Stalag 14th Virginia” (S5, E8 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD! AND LOTS OF ALIEN-CHASING CARDIO* Well, catch me a giant cod, slap its head on Rage Tom (Noah Wylie) and call him an Espheni Overlord, Falling Skies finally found its gung-ho storytelling mojo in “Stalag 14th Virginia”! Granted it was in the third last episode ever Continue Reading
Whoosh! The Flash season 2 teaser trailer is here then it’s gone
One of the unexpected delights of the last year TV-wise has been The Flash, one of the ever-expanding list of DC Comics properties on the small screen. I say “unexpected” because I have never been a great fan of superhero comic books nor their movie or TV adaptations but Continue Reading
The Muppets Fun x3: Floyd and Animal, Kermit and Fozzy, Big Bird and Jimmy Fallon
The Muppets are beyond awesome. We all know that right? But sometimes clips come along that remind just how brilliantly eternally awesome every last one of the characters are, no matter whether they’re on The Muppets new ABC called, rather prosaically, The Muppets, or on Sesame Street (granted the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
We are not a patient people any more. Too many words on the page? Not gonna read that. Song goes over three minutes. Off goes the radio. TV program doesn’t have three deaths, an epidemic, alien and zombies by the gigazillion in the first two minutes … well “Hello!” Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street’s Game of Thrones?
You may or may not have noticed that finding the way to Sesame Street is now going to entail a 9 month detour to HBO. In news that surprised many people, but which upon examination is pretty much a win-win for all concerned, Sesame Workshop (previously the Childrens’ Television Continue Reading