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
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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
Weekday pop art: Artistically rendered The Mandalorian quotes
There is a fandom … and then there is FANDOM. That’s not to say that there’s a ranking in fandom; it’s anything but – if you like a show like The Mandalorian, and by extension, Star Wars overall, you are a fan however it is expressed by you. But there Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “Su’Kal” & “There is a Tide …” (S3, E11 & S12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THINGS TO BE VERY AFRAID OF … VERY … You could argue that this happens each and every week, which is true in a sense since Star Trek has always been a show that is about the good and bad decisions the upstanding citizens of the Continue Reading
Sit up and take notice: The history of Mandalore explained
SNAPSHOTThe saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across ’90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained. (synopsis courtesy Laughing Squid) Keeping track of all the various Continue Reading
TV review: Alien Worlds
Humanity loves a good “what if?” proposition. It is yet another manifestation of the curiosity about the world, and everything which lies beyond it, which has sent us hurtling up the evolutionary ladder, going from spears and arrows, hunting and gathering to cutting-edge medicine and spaceflight. Alien Worlds, a British Continue Reading