Despite their prevalence on early evening TV network schedules, I can frankly take or leave quiz shows. Usually leave, but if you tied me to a chair in a head hold that forced to look straight ahead at a TV screen and only at the TV screen with the Continue Reading
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“I’m not your property … or your toy … or …”: Orphan Black drops intense season 3 teaser trailers
With just two months until BBC America sends in the clones all over again (pun quite clearly intended and happily revelled in), the New World offshoot of the UK’s national broadcaster has unveiled, one-by-one via Instagram, a series of dramatically-intense, defiant new teaser trailers profiling each of the female Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Them (S5, E10 review)
I believe it was that great musical philosopher Annie who once opined in song that “You’re never fully dressed without a smile.” In which case, in this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, mysteriously titled “Them” (there are a couple of contenders), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Daryl (Norman Continue Reading
You want 20 TV theme songs in two minutes? Daniel Koren can help you with that!
I stand impressed. It is one thing to create a medley mashup of TV theme songs with each segueing reasonably neatly into the other and make them sound like they kind of sort of belong together. But talented New York musician Daniel Koren has managed to not just weave Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The beauty of the crystallised cast of The Walking Dead
Life isn’t easy in an apocalyptic environment. What with megalomaniacal, sociopathic Governors, endless herds of walkers, cannibals, deceitful fake scientists and the constant threat of starvation/injury/rabid squirrels (there is such a thing and yes you should be concerned, thank you), it doesn’t take much, as we’ve seen often among Continue Reading
My Fandom Valentine: Find out what your favourite pop culture characters think about love sweet love
You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading
‘Cause I’m happy! Well … HAPPY-ish (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT “Coogan stars in the lead role of Thom Payne, a 44-year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25-year-old “wunderkind” boss arrives, saying things like “digital”, “social” and “viral”. Is he in need of a “rebranding”, or does he just have a “low joy ceiling?” Maybe Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “What Happened and What’s Going On” (S5, E9 review)
* BEWARE OF SPOILERS, DEATH, AND YES, OF COURSE, WALKERS* It is one of the great cliches of death and dying that your life supposedly flashes before your eyes. Having not shuffled off this mortal coil as of yet – unless of course I am going all Ghost on Continue Reading
Waltzing glittery Matilda! Australia to compete in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
Fetch me a kangaroo in spandex! A coterie of bowls-playing grandmothers making scones. A phalanx of surfers atop waves made from pure glitter. Pyrotechnic displays that recall the burning cane fields of Broadwater, New South Wales. And a key change as big as the Australian Bight! Australia, yes Australia, Continue Reading
“What kind of monster puts artisanal butter in the freezer?”: All the fun of the teaser trailer for Silicon Valley season 2
Hands down one of the best TV show premieres of 2014, and I would be so bold as to say the funniest, was HBO’s Silicon Valley, a by all accounts startlingly authentic depiction of life in America’s hot bed of technology development and dreams, centred on a typical startup, Pied Piper, hoping, Continue Reading