“You have taken everything and everyone I have ever loved.” (Anne Glass – played by Moon Bloodgood – to an unseen adversary) There is no doubt that surviving the alien apocalypse unleashed upon the earth by the Espheni, a highly intelligent, imperialistic and cruel race from far beyond the Continue Reading
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My 5 favourite TV show opening themes of the moment: Orphan Black, Helix, Sleepy Hollow, Portlandia, Parks and Recreation
A TV show’s opening theme music is something you either notice or you don’t, love or you loathe but either way, it can vitally important in both giving you an idea of the show to come and establishing a mood or sense of time and place. And while they Continue Reading
Orphan Black: “Nature Under Constraint and Vexed” (S2, E1 review)
Whoosh! And just like that, and understandably so given her daughter Kira (Skyler Wexla) and foster mother of dubious intent Mrs S. (Maria Doyle Kennedy) have just been kidnapped, Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) is once again off and running, frantic to save the only family she really knows. A Continue Reading
FUNx3: Welcome to Sweden, Everything Wrong with The Matrix and When the Easter Bunny attacks!
Welcome to Sweden! Moving to a whole other country is never the easiest of undertakings, something that accountant to the stars, Bruce Evans (Greg Poehler, brother to Amy Poehler who produced the series) discovers when he heads to Sweden to live with his girlfriend Emma (Josephine Bornebusch). Telling a Continue Reading
Farewell Warehouse 13: “Endless Terror” (S5, E1)
The first episode in any new season of a show you truly love is usually a cause for celebration. But while “Endless Terror”, the premiere episode in the fifth season of Warehouse 13, was welcomed with open arms by this longtime fan and no doubt many others, any joy Continue Reading
Some thoughts on HBO’s Looking after binge watching its first season
It can be very odd seeing who you are and the supposed lifestyle you lead portrayed on the big or small screen. Or at least the idea of what your life is like. Quite often, it is nothing like the reality, which is fine since television is a dramatic Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: My Little Pony gets some pop culture geek chic
On the off chance that you crawled under a very large rock somewhere around 1991 and have yet to emerge, I am here to tell you that the 1980s, home to Duran Duran, Hypercolor T-shirts and Dallas, among many other shoulder pad-accented things, are back in a big way, Continue Reading
The things we do to SURVIVE: New The Walking Dead season 5 poster
You may well be thinking to yourself “Did we not just finish season 4, and isn’t season 5 an agonisingly long seven months in the far off wilds of October when we could well be up to your necks in the chomping undead for real?” You would be right Continue Reading
Dreams do come true: Community within reach of #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
Way back in 1965, Mitch Leigh (music) and Joe Darion (lyrics) penned the song “The Impossible Dream (The Quest)” which went on to become the most popular song from the musical Man of La Mancha, the story of Don Quixote by novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was variously used Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “A” (S4, E16 review)
The explosive finale of season 4 of The Walking Dead, enigmatically titled “A”, was many things – tense, deceitful, cruel, vindictive, hopeful, suspicious, but above all, an excellent lesson in relativity. Or to put it another way, no matter how great you think your own sins are, a factor which Continue Reading