Season 7 is nigh. We know this because a glitzy, gee-whiz trailer has landed in cyberspace and it is enormously impressive and promises some great stories. If the writers can live up to the promise of this fast-moving trailer studded with shots of cyborgs in the Wild West, Nefertiti on Continue Reading
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Golden age of TV anxiety
It’s often been said of late that we are in a new golden age of TV. According to the good folks at Wikipedia, the first golden age of TV was from the late 1940s to early 1960s when live dramas, many of them garnering both critical acclaim and solid viewer Continue Reading
Community is back!
After far too long a hiatus, Community jumps back on TV screens – well US TV screens anyway – next week and I am thrilled! (This fabulous promo for Community’s return was put together by Thedoboreel on Youtube and is beyond awesome) It is hands down of the most inventive, Continue Reading
I didn’t think I would: watch zombies on TV
Well, strictly speaking I am not watching the zombies themselves. Just the show they’re in, thank you. Naturally in the sacred tradition of children everywhere when they are watching anything remotely scary on TV, the moment the actions moves from the surviving humans to the zombies, I either put my Continue Reading
First Impressions: "Happy Endings"
I had heard a lot about this show. It was supposed to be a Friends-rip off that started slowly and unevenly, stumbling its way forward, in constant danger of being cancelled. That it only picked up mid way through the first season where it finally found it’s feet, was ordered Continue Reading
First impressions: "Alcatraz"
Alcatraz could well be the most perfect conspiracy show to come along in years. It has, as you’d expect in a show like this, dark overtones of paranoia and mistrust, and yet it remains in full possession of its humanity at the same time. That it does so is largely due Continue Reading
First impressions: "Suburgatory"
There is hell, and then, as this show posits, there is Suburgatory. It is a name so perfectly apt, I desperately wish I had come up with myself. Along with the overly-manicured setting, Stepford Wives-like personalities, and the preternaturally clever teens who trade sophisticated witty lines like they imbibed dictionaries, Continue Reading
First impressions: "Grimm"
Grimm is every bit as good as I hoped it would be. Its basic premise is that fairytales are retellings of events that really happened. That werewolves, witches and the like are not simply the product of people’s overactive and fearful imaginations but real, dangerous and capable of causing great Continue Reading
First impressions: "New Girl"
Well thank the TV gods – New Girl is as funny as hyped. You’d expect it would be somewhat funny since it does star the comedically-talented Zooey Deschanel, who is best known as the flaky but good-hearted, if self-centred on again, off again girlfriend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 500 Days Continue Reading
Once upon a Time
Once Upon a Time is, quite simply, brilliant. I had high hopes for this show which seemed to promise LOST-like intrigue with a postmodern take on fairytales, and it has delivered in spades. It bounces back and forth between the fairy tale characters as we know and love them, and Continue Reading