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
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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
All aboard for Harmontown: A documentary about Dan Harmon, creator of Community
Brilliant and wildly creative he may be, and the father of Community, one of the one of the most idiosyncratic, funny and inventive sitcoms I have ever had the privilege to watch but there’s no escaping the fact that Dan Harmon is a polarising figure. His flair for flawed, Continue Reading
Poster me this! Dumb and Dumber To, Orphan Black S2, Blended
They, whoever they are, may be intent on prosecuting poor Bill Posters but the rest of us can’t wait to see what else the master of promotion does next. I will grant you that threats of prosecution usually accompany physical posters on hoardings and buildings and so on but Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Us” (S4, E15 review)
For a series set in the zombie apocalypse, where survival must be fought for inch by inch, second by second, and there isn’t a whole lot of time for philosophical reflection – unless you’re Tara (Alanna Masterson) entering a dark walker-filled rail tunnel with Glenn (Steven Yeun), in which Continue Reading
So Fargo, so good: Trailers in abundance for FX’s latest offering
For reasons I can’t quite explain, given my lifelong predilection for all things quirky and idiosyncratic, it took me quite a while to warm to the highly imaginative ways of the Coen brothers. I first came across them via 1987’s Raising Arizona, a film that starred Nicolas Cage and Continue Reading