TV is a LOT these days. Like, literally, a LOT. You can’t move for streaming platforms and scripted shows and analysis of those scripted shows which makes deciding what to watch an increasingly Solomonic proposition. Accepting that you literally can’t watch everything, not if you’d like to eat, sleep, see Continue Reading
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Way way away from the Bridge: The challenges and fun of Star Trek: Lower Decks
SNAPSHOT“Lower Decks is developed by Mike McMahan, creator of Hulu’s Solar Opposites and co-creator of Rick and Morty. It focuses on the support crew aboard an insignificant Starfleet starship, the California-class USS Cerritos, shortly after the Next Generation era, in 2380, after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. “The cast Continue Reading
Time to have a retro “Christmas with the Addams Family” #ChristmasInJuly
Just how many Santas is too many? And, by extension, how many presents are too many? You might think that there can’t possibly be a surfeit of either thing at the most wonderful time of the year but in “Christmas With the Addams Family”, broadcast on 24 December 1965, that Continue Reading
Taking luxury to a whole new space. Space: Thoughts on Avenue 5 (S1)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CHAOTIC JOURNEY INTO THE FARTHEST REACHES OF HUMANITY … AND SPACE … When we think of venturing into space, those of us not heavily influenced by endless tales of aggressive aliens and Event Horizon-ish supernatural events anyway, we tend to think of it as an Continue Reading
Time for some adventure! Join Doctor Who: The Runaway TARDIS
SNAPSHOTIn this adventure, 9-year-old Lizzie runs away from home (with a bag full of peanut butter sandwiches) after feeling lonely at her new school. She accidentally ends up in the TARDIS and meets The Doctor. Things go awry when Lizzie drops her sandwich into the TARDIS console, causing it to Continue Reading
A derelict hospital, friendship and love: Thoughts on Crashing (2016)
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a big deal. A really big deal. Much of the current high regard in which this supremely-talented and sharply observational writer and performer is held comes down to Fleabag, a two-season British series based on the 2013 stage play of the Continue Reading
Muppets Now – doing some fun things on Disney + (Is that OK, Joe from Legal?)
SNAPSHOT“At the core conceit of Muppets Now is that each Muppet has his or her own unscripted series – one could be a cooking show, the other a variety show, etc. And celebrity guests are invited onto one of these shows and madness ensues. It’s a mixture of classic Muppets like Miss Continue Reading
Unprecedented eternal chaos or more of the peaceful same? Foundation and the fight for the future
SNAPSHOT[Foundation], based on the books that inspired films such as Star Wars, will “chronicle the thousand-year saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.” Foundation stars Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, Halt and Catch Fire) as Brother Continue Reading
She can hear the soundtrack of your life: Thoughts on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
SPOILERS AHEAD It’s obvious from the moment you see the all-singing, all-singing, technicolour quirky trailer for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist that this is one show that knows its way around a whimsical storyline. It practically shouts out in every gleefully-delivered frame that Zoey Clarke (played by Suburgatory‘s (Jane Levy) is a Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Inking pop culture fun into your life
SNAPSHOT“Tattoo culture is very small, loving, and supportive. My tattooer friends and I are trying our best to show everyone that tattoos are nothing less than an expression of art. …I tried to find a way to express my classical painting knowledge within a size that could fit people who Continue Reading