(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe new season will pick up in the aftermath of season one’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout Continue Reading
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The rest of the season … Only Murders in the Building S5, E6-10
(courtesy IMP Awards) While Only Murders in the Building is all about getting to the bottom of the titular murderous mystery, and that indeed happens in the final four episodes of this wonderful show’s fifth season, what has always made it compelling viewing is the way it focuses on the Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: Gentle Ben #AndyAt60
One thing I remember quite distinctly from my childhood was the fact that you could move, televisually-wise at least, for TV series where an animal was the eponymous lead. Flipper, Lassie and a host of others including, of course Gentle Ben, gave us whimsically sweet and warm stories where all Continue Reading
Sunny days are back again for Sesame Street as it debuts on its new home
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT‘Season 56 reimagines Sesame Street, inviting children into the action and bringing them hand-in-hand through high-stakes stories, powerful learning moments, and laugh-out-loud surprises. And, as always, Sesame Street’s curriculum is designed to meet children’s most pressing needs — so our focus this season is on kindness and Continue Reading
We’re so back … Thoughts on Nobody Wants This S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) It will surprise precisely no one that relationships are HARD. But, asks Nobody Wants This in its brilliant second season, does it have to be this hard? Exactly what level of hard is acceptable sits out in the landscape of the nebulous and oblique and one of Continue Reading
Halloween Family Guy special 2025: “A Little Fright Music” (review)
(courtesy IMDb) Halloween is definitely the one festival of the year where you are fully and absolutely allowed to get your freak on, to let loose, defy assumptions and expectations … and lie to your wives about going trick or treating? Hmmmm, not sure the last one is really part Continue Reading
Molly does her best to live up to her promise in Loot S3, E1-3 (review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) The great joy of Loot, not just in the first three episodes of its third season but in the first two superlative seasons too, is that it is just so damn funny. Not just funny bog standard ordinary but cleverly inspired, oneliner-quoting funny, the kind of sitcom Continue Reading
“Hi Carol. We’re so glad you called” … Full trailer lands for new Vince Gilligan show, Pluribus
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOT“A new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.” The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. The series is set in a present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico that faced an abrupt change away from the world as it is known. Pluribus is a sci-fi Continue Reading
Just can’t get enough … Thoughts on English Teacher S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) On the surface, and what a thoroughly entertaining surface it is, English Teacher, now in its second season, is a series about goofily relatable teachers at a high school in Austin, Texas, possessed of witty banter, life weary observances and the need to have their wits about Continue Reading
Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading