TV

  After waiting far longer than any Scotland-based historical fiction-loving TV fan with a burning predilection for time travel, kilts and romance of the bodice-ripping kind should legitimately have to wait, Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon, came roaring back atop a Highland steed in “The Reckoning”, in which you’d Continue Reading

  It’s a universally-acknowledged fact that you can never spend too much time with Jim Henson’s greatest, most-beloved creations, the Muppets. And by “universal” I mean, of course that I long ago decided that I cannot have too much of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf the Dog, Gonzo, and of course Continue Reading

  These are dark days for The Walking Dead fans. Not only do we have to survive without our regular weekly doses of undead mayhem and the best and worse of the apocalyptic human condition until October, even the new companion series, set in Los Angeles that begins pre-apocalypse, doesn’t Continue Reading

  Silicon Valley, created by the luminously-talented Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space), is a very clever sitcom. A satire of the technological hub centred around San Jose, California, and the startups it incubates so effectively, it is witty, perceptive, peopled by flawed but irresistible characters and according to Continue Reading

  *THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CRYING PRIEST, RANDOM WALKERS AND AN UNDEAD PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “W”… So a funny thing happened to me on the way from the review of season 5 penultimate episode “Try” to its movie-length Continue Reading

  Orphan Black is one very clever show. It has managed to do what many shows before it have failed to do, mixing together edge-of-your-seat action, strikingly well-defined characters – largely thanks to the uber-talented Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany who, to date at least, has played almost all the characters in the Continue Reading

  * SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MUCH GRIEVING, MANY PORKY PIES AND A SUBSTANTIAL LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL* “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and …” Such a simple child’s ditty, one that celebrates the happy joys of heading somewhere special on Continue Reading

  I try to never be a captive of nostalgia. Spend some time with it yes, sup some tea, eat a biscuit, remember the good old days but never, ever be lured into the false sense of security that things were better way back when. Different certainly, special undoubtedly, but Continue Reading