Sooooo … how you doing? You know, because it’s been over 10 years since Friends shuffled off its mortal TV coil – yes 10 years! 10 entire Joey-less years – and well, time may just been feeling like it’s completely getting away from you. (To mark the 10 year Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: Space Oddity/Shoot the Moon (S4, E1/E12 finale review)
* THERE BE SPOILERS … AND ESPHENI … AND VOLM … AND ??? AHEAD * Watching the double episode finale of Falling Skies felt, in all the best possible ways, like watching a twisted Hallmark movie of the week where estranged family members finally see eye to eye and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Make-up artist pays best possible lip service to cartoon charcters
Laura Jenkinson, a supremely creative, über-talented make up artist from London, is a woman after my own heart. Inspired to use her lips as a canvas for all sorts of animated characters, the beauty blogger, after a suggestion from a friend, started with the Minions from the Despicable Me franchise, before going to (‘toon) Continue Reading
Extra! Extra! John Oliver and Cookie Monster spread the news about Words are Here, There and Everywhere
WORDS. They’re everywhere! Why there’s even quite a few in this blog post. Yes really! Words, in fact, are so wonderful, so useful and so important that Sesame Workshop, the non profit educational organisation behind Sesame Street, and Mashable have joined forces to produce a delightful news broadcast parody featuring Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! 6 returning shows I can’t wait to see again
Fetch me some smelling salts! A large barrel of Skittles and vats of Coke! A large pair of foam hands which to slap myself awake! In fact anything that will keep me alert and attentive and concentrating on the endless of hours of TV available to me, and countless others, Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Drawing Straws (S4, E10 review)
* SPOILERS LIE AHEAD … AND BEAMERS … UNLESS LEXI BLOWS THEM FROM THE SKY * Like humans through an Espheni Skitterisation factory … these are The Days of Our Masons … Yes, folks, after dodging the Mason family soap operatic tendencies of Falling Skies for nigh on 10 Continue Reading
First impressions: Intruders (S1, E1″She Was Provisional”/E2 “And Here … You Must Listen”)
Humanity has long been fascinated by the idea of what lies beneath, or just beyond, the limits of our perception. Anchored most firmly to the three dimensions of the physical world, and mired in the turgid everyday certainty of the banal and the ordinary, there has always been a Continue Reading
#Emmys2014: 5 things I loved about the 66th Primetime Emmys Awards show
Once more to the Primetime Emmy Awards my friend, once more! And once more, as seems to be the case every year, there is controversy aplenty but not this time, oddly enough, about the content of the show itself , but rather the style of the annual awards ceremony, which was described Continue Reading
Hello Girls! Lena Dunham, a wayward bike and the season 4 teaser trailer
For all her narcissism and the resulting social blindness it engenders, there is still something inherently likeable about Hannah Horvath, the wanna-be successful writer/great friend/stellar lover and partner portrayed by soon-to-be published author Lena Dunham in HBO’s Girls, a show she also writes and produces. It has a lot to Continue Reading
Doctor Who: “Deep Breath” (S8, E1 review)
You could be forgiven for expecting Doctor Who, newly moved on from massive 50th birthday celebrations last year, and about to induct a new Time Lord occupant of the TARDIS, Peter Capaldi, as the 12th Doctor, to lay on the gravitas and serious drama for “Deep Breath”, the first episode Continue Reading