Goodby San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) in real life! Hello SDCC online! In common with many other COVID-19 unfriendly, crowd-heavy events this year, SDCC has let slip the bonds of convention facilities and hotels, and gone online with a host of panels and trailer reveals. It may not quite be Continue Reading
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The zombies are back in (what’s left of the) town! Trailers and release dates for Fear the Walking Dead and TWD: World Beyond
Uncertainty thy name is COVID-19. One of the many side effects of the pandemic has been the way it has upended all kinds of schedules and plans, including which TV shows would land on our favourite streaming platforms and when (or, even if they could be made now at all), Continue Reading
Heartbreak, humour and freedom: Thoughts on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 1)
Big, epic, life-changing crossroads in life are, by their very status quo-shaking nature, profoundly dramatic events. No matter how you slice it, and whether they represent a positive or negative shift in a person’s life, they have an innate capacity for upending life as you know it. And yet for Continue Reading
A terrific trio of TV shows: Away, Muppets Now (new trailer), The Rain (S3)
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
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