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
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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
Summer TV lovin’: Gonna have us a blast!
Summer loving had me a blast ohh yeah Summer loving happened so fast I met a network crazy for me Met a TV show cute as can be (Sandy from Grease circa 2014) You can sense it can’t you? After a long cold winter when the nights were long Continue Reading
The last man alive who’s never watched Game of Thrones
Once a show enters the zeitgeist in a massive, watercooler-dominating way, it is well nigh impossible to either escape conversation about it, spoilers all across the internet (although if you’re not watching the show they hardly matter now do they?) or to fake your way through said conversation about Continue Reading
Farewell to Warehouse 13: “Cangku Shisi” (S5 E5 review)
Adhering to the always laudable ida that you should end things much as you began them, Warehouse 13 spent its penultimate episode regaling us with one of their classic Big Bad episodes where once again the world hung in the balance and only the combined might, intellect and Pete’s Continue Reading
Nothing one able-bodied female can’t handle: Vale Ann B Davis aka Alice from The Brady Bunch
We all know that time passes way too fast. But the sheer rate of knots at which it travels, dragging us along with it in its wake, hits home when someone from your childhood dies and you’re left wondering where all that time actually went. It’s probably why the Continue Reading