We’ve all been there. You get on a flight, happy to have a brief friendly nod and inconsequential quick chat with your seatmates before settling into reading a good book as you wing your way to your destination. But it rarely works out that sweetly; noise is everywhere, people are Continue Reading
TV
A terrific trio of TV trailers: The Third Day, Unorthodox, The Undoing
This edition’s trailers tend towards the serious side of the storytelling spectrum and look brilliantly compelling because of it. The series centre on the known and the unknown, offering proof that life moves in mysterious and often troubling ways and figuring out what has gone wrong and if there is Continue Reading
Thank you for being a Super Golden Friend: What happens when superheroes retire and move to Miami
SNAPSHOTWhat happens when four superfriends retire and move to Miami to share a ranch style home? This is a pilot I’d like to propose to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, if I knew anyone who worked there, and if all the licenses could be obtained. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It appears Continue Reading
It’s a whole new World Beyond out there … but this is The Walking Dead so don’t expect a singing princess
SNAPSHOTThe third series in a franchise that includes global hit series The Walking Dead and original spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Stardust City Rag” and “The Impossible Box” (S1, E5 & E6)
One of the things that really strikes you as you watch the grittily-grounded storytelling of Star Trek: Picard is how it is, like Star Trek: Discovery before it, willing to admit that the future may not be as squeaky clean shiny as we’d like to believe. It makes sense – Continue Reading
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? More episodes now amusingly haunting Boomerang
If you’re keeping count, and why wouldn’t you be, you would be well are that Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? is the thirteenth iteration of the beloved character and his attendant gang of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred since the franchise launched way back in 1969. While my heart will always Continue Reading
Not everything in life makes sense: The uplifting strangeness of Tales From the Loop
SNAPSHOTInspired by the wondrous paintings of Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop explores the mind-bending adventures of the people who live above the Loop, a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things previously relegated to science fiction, possible. In this fantastical mysterious town, Continue Reading
Atypical is getting a 4th and finals season … and a teaser trailer!
I love Atypical. Season 1, 2 and 3 of the Netflix dramedy have been a joy full of compelling, accessible characters, witty lines, poignant moments and some weighty life issues. Like any fan of a show that is richly warm, emotionally evocative and all-engrossing, I would like it to go Continue Reading
Messy is normal: Thoughts on Sex Education (season 2)
You have to hand it to humanity – despite all evidence suggesting life is a clusterf**k of magnificent proportions from which we might receive the occasional, delightful reprieve, people persist in thinking that perhaps it’s the messiness that’s an aberration and that’s the normal state of affairs is a blissful Continue Reading
Tons of TV trailers: Vagrant Queen, I’m Not Okay With This, Duncanville, Beforeigners, Hunters
So here’s the thing – there is more TV than anyone can possibly watch in a lifetime (or monkeys typing randomly on typewriters for that matter but then they want to write Shakespeare not watch television so they probably aren’t too worried about that.) And yet … AND YET … Continue Reading