SNAPSHOT The series is about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others. Jack Whelan (John Simm), a former LAPD cop with a troubled and violent history, finds the quiet idyllic life he has crafted with his wife, Amy (Mira Sorvino) shattered Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: “Ghost in the Machine” (S4, E1 review)
BOOM! That shockingly loud sound you hear is TNT’s Falling Skies taking a turn for the darker, tilting, nay falling with breakneck speed towards storylines so gritty and apocalyptic that it finally feels like you are in the midst of a good, honest-to-God, full-blown catastrophic alien invasion. Gone are Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs I discovered via In the Flesh (season 2)
One of the most gripping, fresh-voiced and emotionally authentic shows to have emerged in the arguably crowded zombie genre in the last couple of years has been BBC3’s In the Flesh, a series that looks at the way in which society reacts when the undead apocalypse, known in this Continue Reading
Planning some TV binge-watching? Check this handy chart out first!
In case you hadn’t noticed – in which case you are an astoundingly well-organised person of almost savant-like powers who is completely up to date in all things; I may just have to worship you once I finish season 6 of Dexter and season 8 of Supernatural and … – Continue Reading
Defiance: “The Opposite of Hallelujah” (season 2 premiere review)
Defiance as a premise is everything my eternally sci-fi loving heart loves in a show. It’s post-apocalyptic – that’s what happens when an invading collective of seven alien races arrives to take Earth as their own following the annihilation of their own system, goes to war with humanity and Continue Reading
Can you show me how to get … REALLY QUICKLY! … to Sesame Street
In a lot of ways, my childhood, which involved consuming countless hours of Sesame Street at my leisure (including the gorgeous Grover, and Ernie and Bert) feels like it all happened a million years ago. It’s probably partly the passage of time and partly the fact that the world Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Books, movies, music and TV shows re-imagined with LEGO
Is there nothing that LEGO cannot do? On the basis of The LEGO Movie, countless LEGO playsets and countless hours I spent as a child building everything from mansions to spaceships and boats out of the endlessly useful Danish coloured blocks, I would have to say a big hearty Continue Reading
That’s the way we play Game of Thrones: Wil Wheaton’s hilariously inspired take on the show’s title sequence
For a man who is likely the last person on Earth to have not watched any episodes of The Game of Thrones, I have managed in just one week to feature not one but two enormously clever clips referencing this zeitgeist-bestriding show. In this case, it’s an inordinately clever Continue Reading
Farewell forever to Warehouse 13: “Endless” (series finale review)
Saying goodbye to a much-loved TV show is never easy. After spending years, episode in, and episode out with a group of characters you have to know, love and deeply appreciate who inhabit a world you would probably very much like to call your own, they are gone, living Continue Reading
Worlds beyond and within our own: Ascension, Dominion, The Expanse + The Anomaly
We’re going back to the stars people! And where we are staying earthbound, the heavens are coming to us, although if the storyline of Dominion is any guide, we’d probably much rather it hadn’t. The good news is that epic, adventurous sci-fi narratives, which seemed to go out vogue Continue Reading