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
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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
On the tenth day of Christmas… I watched 2011’s Eureka Christmas episode – Do You See What I See
So I finally got to see a few of the episodes I previewed earlier and they are such a delight. Here’s my reviews of Eureka’s Do You See What I See DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE – EUREKA Ah I do love the twisting of standard Christmas phrases into Continue Reading
On the ninth day of Christmas … my cartoon ornaments reminded me of childhood past
My Christmas tree is not your usual Christmas tree. Oh it has branches, and tinsel on the branches, and some sparkly red and silver baubles, and the most gorgeous blue and white twinkly lights. All the usual accoutrements, naturally and I adore it because it is exactly the sort of Continue Reading
On the seventh day of Christmas… I finally watched Eureka’s 2010 Christmas episode – "O Little Town"
Eureka is quirky to its core, which is why I love it, and this episode kept the quirk factor as high as it could go, while still managing to be funny and touching in equal measure. It’s a little unclear just when the events in “O Little Town” take place. Continue Reading
If the cast of Community were Batman villains…
(artwork by the very talented Ben Deguzman (@abouthebenjamin) from Southern California.)
On the fifth day of Christmas… I watched Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas (2010)
Christmas is, on the surface at least, the shiniest and happiest of festivals – happy families exchanging presents, lavish feasts, joy and goodwill, everyone happy ever after lit by the glow of a 1000 warmed hearts. But as Abed, who is my favourite character in this creatively rich series, discovers Continue Reading
On the second day of Christmas, my TV gave to me…
It is no secret that I love Christmas (unless you have been living under a rock in a small village on the windswept edges of Mongolia in which case you are (a) very odd, and yet quirky, and (b) forgiven for missing that) and naturally being a pop culture junkie, Continue Reading
Happy Birthday in a million pretty pixels
It’s my birthday tomorrow. (Thank you, thank you, your warm wishes are greatly appreciated… and not at all solicited) So it got me thinking. Not just about cake, and how far I have to run (Ecuador? Burkina Faso? The moon?) to burn off enough calories in preparation for the all Continue Reading