Figuring out who you are in life is rarely as clear cut and straightforward as we’d like to be. While we dream of moving majestically forward, held head high and a fist full of highly-achieveable dreams in our hands, friends and family happily by our sides and bluebirds, because of Continue Reading
TV
Hello Popular Space Show: The Next Generation! How goes your sci-fi parodying?
SNAPSHOTEvery episode of Popular Space Show: The Next Generation. I can’t believe I shaved my head for this. (synopsis via YouTube) Watching science fiction, even the very best exponents of the genre, does involve a considerable suspension of belief. After all, apart from rovers landing on Mars and probes hurtling Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Breaking the Fourth Wall” (S1, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ALL KINDS OF VERY COOL REVEALS (THE FULL IMPORT OF WHICH DEPENDS ON AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF MARVEL COMIC BOOK LORE) … Holy hiding in plain sight, WandaVision! Yes, that is an unholy melding of DC and Marvel for which this reviewer will likely suffer death Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “On a Very Special Episode …” and “All-New Halloween Spooktacular! ” (S1, E5 and E6)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A TV HOMAGE SOAKED IN GRIEF … Would you like to see how powerful grief can be? How it can completely alter the entirety of the landscape of your life, pluck you from good and reason into a maelstrom of senseless and atypical decision-making and the Continue Reading
Love, hope and expectations: Thoughts on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 2)
Part of the inestimable joy of watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in all its hyper-exuberant, dazzlingly gorgeous, cleverly quirky glory is simply sitting back and let the vibrantly witty wordplay wash over you like some sort of heavenly linguistic balm. Every character is brilliantly smart and funny, every word they Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “Now in Color” and “We Interrupt This Program” (S1, E 3 and 4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTORTED REALITY OF GRIEF … Even in the first two classic sitcom-styled episodes of WandaVision, one of the best shows to hit any screen in quite some time, it became patently obvious that all was not well in the suburban idyllic world of Westview, New Continue Reading
Life is space is really animated – Thoughts on Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 1)
Star Trek is serious. Very, very SERIOUS. Sure, it can be goofy at times – think “The Trouble With Tribbles” (The Original Series), “Deja Q” (The Next Generation), “Body and Soul” (Voyager) and “Our Man Bashir” (Deep Space Nine) – but mostly it is all Prime Directives, deadly “Away Missions” Continue Reading
Crack them open! Easter Eggs revealed for The Mandalorian and Soul
If you consume any kind of pop culture media in our postmodernist, digital, information saturated age, you will be well acquainted with the concept of “Easter eggs” which are defined, as per Wikipedia, as “a message, image, or feature hidden in a video game, film, or other, usually in electronics, Continue Reading
Review of WandaVision episodes 1 and 2: Is this just real life? Is this just fantasy?
Fun and escapist and sometime extremely emotionally confronting though Marvel’s prodigious cinematic output is to watch, it is a rare thing indeed to think of them as daringly creative original in any way. Each and every movie, with some rare exceptions, follows roughly the same template, with an ever-escalating series Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery: “That Hope is You, Part 2” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … BADASSERY, BROKEN HOLOS AND THE POWER OF FOUND FAMILIES … Wow, well, the final episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 is utterly rip your heart out, put it in again brilliant with the humanity of the full speed ahead storyline so breathtakingly good that you have Continue Reading