Once more to the Primetime Emmy Awards my friend, once more! And once more, as seems to be the case every year, there is controversy aplenty but not this time, oddly enough, about the content of the show itself , but rather the style of the annual awards ceremony, which was described Continue Reading
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Hello Girls! Lena Dunham, a wayward bike and the season 4 teaser trailer
For all her narcissism and the resulting social blindness it engenders, there is still something inherently likeable about Hannah Horvath, the wanna-be successful writer/great friend/stellar lover and partner portrayed by soon-to-be published author Lena Dunham in HBO’s Girls, a show she also writes and produces. It has a lot to Continue Reading
Doctor Who: “Deep Breath” (S8, E1 review)
You could be forgiven for expecting Doctor Who, newly moved on from massive 50th birthday celebrations last year, and about to induct a new Time Lord occupant of the TARDIS, Peter Capaldi, as the 12th Doctor, to lay on the gravitas and serious drama for “Deep Breath”, the first episode Continue Reading
FUNX3 with Parks and Recreation: Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Nick Offerman
I know someone, somewhere rather sagely once noted that all good things must come to an end, and while I appreciate the logical sentiment embodied in this, let’s be fair, rather obvious observation (no points for originality there buddy) and its universal truth, it still saddens me to think Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Till Death Us Do Part (S4, E9 review)
* Duck! Beamers above you and spoilers ahead of you if you dare* There was a lot of gazing at the moon in this week’s episode of Falling Skies, and in marked contrast to the title which seemed to promise the sort of wholesale death and destruction we’ve become accustomed Continue Reading
Daleks are Danish: Doctor Who S8 trailer gets some LEGO lovin’
The long wait – unless you ARE a Time Lord in which case you have already zipped forward, watched the entire season and posted reviews on all relevant sites (and possibly saved the world several times over) – for season 8 of Doctor Who is almost over! In just Continue Reading
Checking in with The Strain: “Runaways” (S1, E5 review)
I will be the first to admit, and here I paraphrase Winnie the Pooh (yes Winnie the Pooh) rather loosely, that I am a horror-watching bear of little courage. While I have acclimated to the zombies of The Walking Dead, and even the frenetically-fast undead of Helix do not Continue Reading
The perils of binge-watching TV: EW brings you a timely PSA
We’ve all seen it happen. Successful friends and contented family members, maybe even ourselves, reduced to unhygienic, mindless, jibber-jabbering shadows of our former TV viewing selves by improper binge watching of TV shows. There’s nothing wrong with binge watching per se of course – everyone is doing it. But as a host Continue Reading
First impressions: Outlander (“Sassenach”, S1, E1)
I believe it was that great pop sage Huey Lewis who once marvelled in song at the curious, saddening, maddening, life-saving “Power of Love”. But I doubt even he could have predicted that love, powerful though it might be, could span centuries, fuel two lifetimes lived simultaneously by one Continue Reading
#CommunityLivesOn: Season 6 teaser trailer
#CommunityLivesOn That’s the inspirational hashtag being used by the Plucky Sitcom That Could’s new home at Yahoo Screen, who stepped in to keep the show alive after NBC cancelled it at the end of it’s fifth season and other would-be saviours/suitors like Hulu passed on taking the show onto their Continue Reading