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
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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
Is the afterlife digital? Thoughts on Upload
As The Good Place proved, death can be funny. Well, not so much death itself which is distinctly unfunny and horrifically grief-inducing but what comes afterwards, with the afterlife ripe, as it turns out, for some very clever riffs on heaven and hell and whether there might be some more Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Mythical pop culture creatures go vintage scientific
SNAPSHOTFrom the series “Unnatural History” that explores pop culture characters depicted as vintage biology illustration studies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you’re as enamoured of good storytelling as I am, you will understand that feeling deep within that acknowledges that though fictional creatures from movies, TV and books aren’t real, Continue Reading
Their fate is in your hands – Thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend
It was a cold and terrible day in January 2019, the 25th to be exact, when the final six episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt dropped on Netflix and Titus (Tituss Burgess) barked his last defensive pun, Lillian (Carol Kane) had to forgo fighting the gentrification of her belovedly raggedy slice Continue Reading
The Mandalorian: The LEGO is now strong with its trailer
The Mandalorian is hands (or lightsabres) down one of the best TV series of the last 12 months. “… a big budget, cinematically resplendent piece of storytelling that fits neatly, and with Rogue One edginess, into the rapidly re-expanding official Star Wars universe”, The Mandalorian took us deep into the Continue Reading
Six seasons and a … table read? Community cast re-enact episode “Cooperative Polygraphy” for a good cause
It turns out that there’s lots of things you can do from your own home that, pre-COVID-19, no one had actually thought to try because, well, frankly, we had the outside world and gatherings with other humans for that. But with social isolation still very much in place for many Continue Reading