SNAPSHOTVelma is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and under appreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers. (official synopsis via Collider) Much Continue Reading
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The rebellion gathers pace: Andor (S1, E4-6 review)
There is a tendency, an understandable one it should be added, to view insurgencies against tyranny and authoritarianism as wholly noble and heroic. That they are noble and heroic goes without saying – you cannot take on a fight of such gargantuan, near impossible-to-win proportions and not possess impressive quantities Continue Reading
“Never a dull moment!” Star Trek Discovery S5 sets off on an epic galactic search (NYCC22 trailer)
SNAPSHOTThe New York Comic Con 2022 Star Trek Universe audience got an action-packed first look at Star Trek: Discovery Season 5. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Saru (Doug Jones), Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery return for an epic new season. (courtesy Paramount Plus YouTube) Continue Reading
The suspense will kill you … Wednesday receives a full enthrallingly dark new trailer
SNAPSHOTA sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while Continue Reading
The final voyage begins: Trailer drops for the third TNG-heavy season of Picard
SNAPSHOTPicard features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Continue Reading
More tales of fire and blood: House of the Dragon (S1, E4-6) review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND POWER HUNGRY REGRET … As an exploration of how power, both the attaining of it or its oft damning pursuit, corrupts, you can’t go past the quietly searing excoriation of House of the Dragon, with episodes four to six of its first season Continue Reading
The journey continues: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power (S1, E3-5) review
There’s a languid lusciousness to The Rings of Power which, if it was the only thing assessed by an audience when watching the show, might lead them to suspect the show is all thoughtful prettiness and not much else. Certainly there are moments of breathtaking beauty such as when Galadriel Continue Reading
Save who you can: The haunting apolcayptic horror of The Last of Us (trailer)
To be honest, after the disqueting, semi-apocalyptic weirdness of the COVID pandemic, my appetite for journeys into the darker side of humanity’s soul, and the cataclysmically devastating way it affects the world around us, has diminished significantly. Strangely during the lockdown height of the pandemic, when it psycholigically felt like Continue Reading
One more happy ending: Farewell and thank you to Grace and Frankie (S7, E 5-16)
Saying goodbye to anyone is hard, especially when it marks the end of a long, winding and very happy road, one you’re unlikely walk again. It’s a peculiar kind of melancholy that acknowledge good times have been had but that they’re now sadly over, and it applies almost as much Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Thoughts on Andor (S1, E1-3)
Star Wars has never been short of weight issues at the core of its storytelling. From the moment A New Hope, then just good old Star Wars before it begat a sprawlingly beguiling franchise, scrolled in memorable yellow and black across cinema screens in 1977, George Lucas’s take of good Continue Reading