See I told you I wasn’t imagining it! There is a LOT more TV on our screens that there was even five years with the number of original scripted series more than doubling from 80 in 2009 to 180 in 2014. And the growth is even more impressive, points out Continue Reading
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You have been chosen to watch The Messengers … oh and save the world!
My, my, my but we have become a dark and despondent lot haven’t we? Besieged by terror acts unspeakable, climate change, economic woes and a general decline in societal civility, humanity seems to have decided as one that the only way to deal with all this pessimism and darkness Continue Reading
Farewell Miranda … parting is such NOT fun (final episodes review)
Saying goodbye to a TV show you love is never easy. These days, of course, you never really say goodbye to a TV show with streaming, good old fashioned DVDs, cable re-runs and yes fan-fic keeping the characters you know and love alive long after the credits have run Continue Reading
The irrepressibly charming Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (trailer)
SNAPSHOT After 15 years of living in a cult, the unbreakable and wide-eyed Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, The Office) is rescued along with three other women, causing a national sensation that culminates with an appearance on the Today show. Before getting back on the bus to Indiana, however, Kimmy decides Continue Reading
Selina swaps VPOTUS for POTUS in HBO’s teaser trailer for Veep season 4
Where we left Veep at the end of season 3 The episode, and season, conclude with no joy and little meaningful resolution, which is exactly how Veep, a show that’s at its best when its characters’ situations are at their most dire, should end. Selina’s struggling in the primaries. Continue Reading
5 things I love about this year’s sleeper hit Jane the Virgin
* Some minor spoilers contained within (though limited as much as possible) * On January 2015, a hitherto little-known actress by the name of Gina Rodriguez stepped onto the stage at the Beverly Hilton to receive her Golden Globes award for Best Performance by an actress in a television Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Doctors Who of Dr Seuss
I was sorely tempted to start off this post with my very own Seuss-ian rhyme but you and I both know that I nor aany mortal soul could ever do the great man justice. So I will simply say that DeviantArt artist, DrFaustusAU, who specialises in traditional art, drawings, Continue Reading
Grab your Fedoras! We’re off into syfy’s The Expanse
“We made it so far out into the darkness; why couldn’t we have brought more light?” SNAPSHOT A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain together in a Continue Reading
Could Will Forte be The Last Man on Earth?
We’ve all done it at one time or another – pictured what it would be like to be the last people alive on earth, freed from the cold, dead hand of work and stultifying routine, left alone to sleep, read, eat, wander, the world ours, and ours alone, for Continue Reading
Groot, Hodor and Chewbacca walk into a cantina … (LEGO short)
It ain’t easy being a sidekick. All of the work, very little of the glory and usually none of the romance or the glamour. How much worse is it then if you’re also, to everyone else’s ears at least, hopelessly mis-understandable, perpetually misinterpreted and yes always denied snacks or Continue Reading