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
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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
Interview me! Promo fun with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda from Grace and Frankie
It’s tale as old as time … or at least the entertainment industry – if you make it, you must promote it. Most of the time, from what many actors and producers say, its sheer drudgery, a box to be ticked and nothing more, but sometimes the heavens align, interviewer Continue Reading
Goodnight, ABBA: Björn Ulvaeus reads a bedtime story to the inner child in all of us
It turns out, and why would you have doubted it, that ABBA are good for even more than just stellar classic classic pop songs and an almost assailable position at the very heights of the pop pantheon. They are, in fact, warm and engaging storytellers; well, at least we have Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “The End is the Beginning” and “Absolute Candor” (S1, E3 & E4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A FAKE VINEYARD AND NOT SO FAKE XENOPHOBIA AND LINGERING REGRET … In the normal course of things, humanity in general, and Star Trek in particular like their heroes to be bright, shiny and above reproach. It fits nicely with the idea that, all evidence to Continue Reading
Trio of TV trailers: Run, Stranger Things 4 and Altered Carbon 2
Two favourites and one new show to add to the TV viewing pile! What could be better? (Apart from, you know, a year off work, a pile of books, your unwatched Netflix list and a stack of calorie-free cheesecakes.) In these cool trailers we get to catch up with an Continue Reading
Bill Murray returns to Groundhog Day in playful new car ad
SNAPSHOTIt’s “Groundhog Day” all over again as Jeep brand debuts a Big Game spot starring Bill Murray (in his first-ever national television commercial). But this time reliving the same day over and over again is always a new adventure when you’re driving the 2020 Jeep Gladiator. Jeep. There’s only one. Continue Reading
Ragnarok review: “New Boy” and “541 Meters” (E1 & E2)
It’s reasonable assumption that if you are a nervous nerdy high schooler, newly-arrived in town, and the wife of the old man you stop to help across the street touches your forehead and your eyes flash with lightning, that you might more than “new kid” syndrome to deal with. Throughout Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Be My pop culture Valentine says PJ McQuade
Cole Porter knew that everyone was into love, declaring in his iconic song, “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)” … Birds do it, bees do itEven educated fleas do itLet’s do it, let’s fall in love. Someone else who knows about the universality of love and romance is PJ Continue Reading