(courtesy AppleTV+ via IMDb) Streaming platforms of late have developed a rather severe case of BroadcastTV-itis, a terrible disease that compels those who commission programs to cancel them after one season, or sometimes not even that, if they don’t attract 100 million eyeballs in the first ten minutes or so. Continue Reading
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Sci-fi review double: Strange New Worlds (S2, E3) and Silo S1 finale (E 10)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Strange New Worlds (S1, E3) As narrative hooks upon which to hang a compelling story, it’s hard to ho past time travel. All that timey-wimey stuff as David Tennant’s Doctor Who used to cutely remark is so far beyond anything we encounter in the spectacularly ordinariness of Continue Reading
Sci-fi review double: Silo (S1, E9) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (S2, E2)
Silo (S1, E9) BAM! That sound you hear, crashing down with clanging finality through the hundred-plus set of spiral stairs that link the many levels of the eponymous silo, is of an autocratic system finding itself falling apart, one defiant action after another. In the penultimate episode of the Silo‘s Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Lower Decks #1 by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
(courtesy IDW Publishing) SNAPSHOTEnsign, report to the bridge! Board the U.S.S. Cerritos for a mission to the enigmatic Qvanti system as the hit Paramount+ animated series comes to comics! Captain Carol Freeman leads her crew on an expedition aimed to build bridges and advance Federation technology, but she and the Continue Reading
Sci-fi review special: Star Trek – Strange New Worlds (S2 E1) and Silo (S1, E 7-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2, E1 Is it twee and over-devoted to think of the characters on a TV show as family, especially after just one season? Possibly but then when the show is as well-written and skillfully executed as Discovery spinoff, Strange New Worlds, now Continue Reading
Peace out, virgins! Thoughts on Never Have I Ever season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are a curious concoction. We spend out the growing up part of our lives looking forward to the adult part of being alive, convinced that this transition will be the thing that defines and makes us, that will confirm that everything we’ve done up to that Continue Reading
Once more to the whimsically heartfelt frozen opposite of south: The Great North (S2, E11-22)
A lot of modern animated shows are very clever creations indeed. BoJack Horseman, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, King of the Hill and Archer are just five examples in a brilliantly inspired slates of shows that manage to bring together vividly-realised characters in all their authentically fallible glory, narratives that are Continue Reading
Times they are a-changing: Thoughts on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 3)
Plunging yourself into a show created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, and then executive produced by her and her collaborator/husband Daniel is one of life’s truly great pleasures. Happy to pack a thousand words in where most people speak a hundred, shows like the Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and currently The Marvelous Mrs. Continue Reading
Perhaps it is time to begin again: New TV spot drops for Star Wars’ Ahsoka
(courtesy Gizmodo (c) Lucasfilm) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created Continue Reading
The Truth Will Surface: Thoughts on Silo (S1, E1-6)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity has long shown an evolutionarily advantageous ability to turn the very worst of times into, if not the very best of times because not even we are that good, then better times than they might otherwise be. We have employed our inventiveness, our thoughtfulness, our humour Continue Reading