*SPOILERS AND RAW BRUTISH INHUMANITY AND YES ENDURING LOVE INCOMING* There has never been a scintilla of doubt that the producers of Outlander are committed to showing life in the often mercilessly brutish world of eighteenth century Scotland in its all confronting, intensely dehumanising horror. This unwavering commitment to Continue Reading
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They’re all out to get you in USA network’s intriguing new show Mr Robot
SNAPSHOT USA Network presents MR. ROBOT, a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, The Pacific), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, The Adderall Diaries) of Continue Reading
The Muppets are back on TV! It’s time to light the … well you know …
SNAPSHOT The Muppets return to prime time with a contemporary, documentary-style show that, for the first time ever, will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, break-ups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires; a more adult Muppet show, for kids Continue Reading
Haunted by the future and the past: Minority Report (TV series) new trailer
SNAPSHOT Minority Report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, Continue Reading
Is that smoke in the forest? The Walking Dead’s Daryl investigates in this LEGO stop motion animated short
I am increasingly of the opinion that every single TV show, movie, book trailer and music clip – hey I am not playing favourites here – should be required by law to produce a LEGO version of itself. Yes, every single last one of them. “Is that not already Continue Reading
Outlander: The Search (S1, E14 review)
*SPOILERS … AND REDCOATS AND A DISTINCT LACK OF TWITTER OR TEXTING AHEAD* It’s been clear ever since Claire Randall Fraser (Catriona Balfe) stumbled through the stones at Craigh an Dun back in episode one of the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s sprawling historical novels Outlander, that the show was more Continue Reading
Just like me, they (don’t) long to be me, close to you: The trippy togetherness of Sense8 (trailer)
SNAPSHOT One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other’s lives, each other’s secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as “Sensates.” (official synopsis via Blastr) There’s no escaping we now Continue Reading
Can you bear The Strain a second time? (Season 2 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT A plane lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport with the lights off and the doors sealed. CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), Dr. Nora Martinez, and their team are sent to investigate. On board they find 206 corpses (with no mark of blood loss) and four Continue Reading
Outlander: The Watch (S1, E13 review)
*SPOILERS AND LIFE NOT AS WE KNOW IT, JIM AHEAD* Ah life pre-Outlander the TV series was a kinder, gentler time. Many of us assumed, rather naively, much like Claire Randall Fraser (Catriona Balfe) herself even, that life in the eighteenth century was impossibly, delightfully romantic*, a near bucolic blur of Continue Reading
New aliens, philosophising and vengeance oh my! Falling Skies season 5 teaser trailer
“A man walks through his life. He stumbles, and he falls. At times, he thinks he cannot get up, but he does. Over, and over, until one day, when the man cannot hold up the sky falling all around him anymore. Then, he reaches his journey’s end. But there Continue Reading