*Yup there are spoilers ahead … and walkers … and steamy Georgian heat and … And then there were more than three … Quite a few more in fact. After last week’s finely executed slow burn bringing together of Michonne (Danai Gurira, who just celebrated a birthday), Rick (Andrew Continue Reading
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Flintstones, meet the Scientifically Accurate Flintstones!
I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, who premiered on US TV on September 30, 1966, and loved, even at a young age, its juxtaposition of modern day concerns with stone age people. It was a clever, insightful sitcom in a cartoon, and while you knew that cavemen didn’t actually Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones
Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading
The Muppets rock final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show
If there was any further proof that there isn’t anything The Muppets can’t do, and utterly entertain while doing it, I present to you their appearance on the final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show. Fresh from an imaginative Superbowl campaign promoting the Toyota Highlander, that made great use Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “After” (S4, E9 review)
If there is one thing you walk from the premiere episode of the second half of The Walking Dead‘s fourth season with, it is a sense of complete and utter aloneness. From the impressive, almost awe-inspiringly aerial shot of the still burning prison, now swarming with aimless walkers, watched Continue Reading
Community: “Geothermal Escapism” (S5, E5)
The fifth episode in Community‘s steadily improving fifth season, “Geothermal Escapism”, was a bittersweet episode. While it saw the show return to the anarchic, rapid-fire pop culture-referencing form which characterised its iconic paintball episodes, “Modern Warfare” (E1, S23), “A Fistful of Paintballs” and “A Few Paintballs More” (S2, E23/E24), Continue Reading
The Moodys (Australian Sitcom), “Australia Day” (S2, E1)
AWK-WAAARD. If any word describes The Moodys, it’s that one. It neatly sums up pretty much every family event this wholly typical Australian family stages, and in that regard at least, would have to be emblematic of any family trying to have a trouble free gathering … and failing Continue Reading
Hey Breaking Bad meet The Facts of Life … You’re welcome
This is the absolute zenith of pop culture mashups! Juxtaposing the gritty reality of Breaking Bad, a song as far from a perky sitcom as you can, with the effervescent fun of the theme song from The Facts of Life is about as magical a pop culture joining together Continue Reading
We’re almost there! This The Walking Dead featurette previews second half of season 4
The Walking Dead‘s return to TV screens everywhere is so close I can almost taste it! (Though not the walkers themselves thankfully although I do hear they taste like chicken.) At 9pm Sunday 9 February US time, and 7.30pm Monday 10 February Australian time (12.30pm if you’re REALLY keen; Continue Reading
A fruity mystery indeed! Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) counts apples and oranges on Sesame Street
Sesame Street is a very clever show. You don’t need me to tell you that, of course. Ask any small child and they will tell you all about the counting, and the spelling and all manner of fun, educational moments; and if you’re sensible you’ll check with the parents Continue Reading