One of the shows I remember watching as a child, and being quite moved by week after week, was The Waltons (1972-1981), a show based on Earl Hamners Jr’s book Spencer’s Mountain, which centred on a family struggling to get by in rural Virginia during the Depression and the Continue Reading
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Poster me this #4: Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Girls, Haven, August: Osage County
I have written long and often about my love of really clever, visually striking movie and TV promotional artwork. Not everything produced in the art department salt mines of the movie studios and Tv networks is worth featuring of course but a great deal of it is, since let’s Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #3: Review of Grimm S3 premiere “The Ungrateful Dead”
… and we’re RACING! Barely pausing for breath, and picking up just a few minutes before season 2 ended with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) racing through the container yard, a pack of snarling, ultra-aggressive zombie-like people hot on their heels, Grimm kicked Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #2: My 5 favourite hilarious and/or scary sitcom episodes
It’s not that often that “BOO!” is followed by thigh-slapping gales of laughter and raucous guffaws – unless of course someone thought to turn True Blood or The Walking Dead into sitcoms (it can only be a matter of time surely) in which case laugh away as you have Continue Reading
Hooray for Halloween #1: Funny or Die’s pop culture fright night
You think werewolves, and skeletons and goblins and vampires (oh my!) are truly scary? You don’t know scary! Wait ’til you’ve seen Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch from Funny or Die, a “comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions” (wikipedia) go through Continue Reading
The Walking Dead lives on for season 5!
It will hardly come as a shock to anyone familiar with the ongoing, ever-building successful of AMC’s highest rating scripted series The Walking Dead that it has been renewed for a fifth season. With the premiere episode for season 4 ratings its decayed body parts off – according to Continue Reading
To re-imagine or not to re-imagine: That is the great TV show question
Picture this my TV-watching friends. [cue wavy, migraine-aura like swirls that traditionally usher in a dream scene] It’s 2042 and TV executives are huddled around a table, pondering which new shows they should commit to beaming directly into each citizen’s neural net. As always it’s a hard task, complicated Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Isolation” (S4, E3 review)
“No matters what happens, we’ll cope. We have to.” (Beth to Maggie) Never has an episode of The Walking Dead been so accurately titled. The sense of isolation, never normally in short supply in a hostile apocalyptic landscape where humanity’s remnants are stretched few and far between, is palpable Continue Reading
Great questions of our time: What do the fox and Cookie Monster say?
A couple of days ago via Twitter, Sesame Street posed two vitally important questions via two delightful Vine videos chock full of their trademark wit and pop culture knowingness, and to save us lying awake at 3 am pondering what the answers could possibly be, gave us those as Continue Reading
Frasier reunion: Another wonderful serve of tossed salad and scrambled eggs
SNAPSHOT Psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Grammer) returns to his hometown of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston (as seen in Cheers). His plans for a new life as a bachelor are complicated when he is obliged to take in his father, Martin Continue Reading