SNAPSHOTAfter being in space for 25 years, Rocko and his friends return to a late-2010s era O-Town with modern amenities such as constantly updating touchscreen phones, radioactive energy drinks, food trucks and coffee shops on every corner. Rocko, who does not share Heffer and Filburt’s enthusiasm for the 21st century Continue Reading
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Life, love, and tragedy: The quirkily moving storytelling of Fleabag (season 1)
I love Fleabag. It’s a quirky, refreshingly honest and often funny take on the messy business of human, a grossly flawed undertaking at the best of times but one made all the more impossible to navigate by the intrusion of grief which twists and turns already-challenging life situations to the Continue Reading
Come and take a look behind the curtain with Star Trek: Discovery and Star Wars
Not everyone likes to pull back the curtain hiding the gears and mechanisms that make a movie or TV show come alive. For some, wholly entering into that created world is sacrosanct; they want the experience of being transported far away from the everyday, to feel as if it is Continue Reading
A whole new undead world: New show joins The Walking Dead universe
SNAPSHOT“This new series will “focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.” (synopsis via TVLine) What’s Continue Reading
Shot-by-Shot: Cast members of Stranger Things 3 dissect the Russian base scene
Stranger Things 3 was a very intense season, full to bursting (if you were an infected rat, quite literally) with some deeply-unsettling Invasion of the Body Snatchers horror, lots of musing on growing up, gender identity and ’80s pop culture touchstones and even some Cold War humour and subterfuge. That Continue Reading
Haha! Dying isn’t funny but The Good Place S3 gag reel is
If there’s one thing we have learned over three fantastically good and spectacularly inventive seasons of The Good Place, it’s the afterlife has a real chance of being really, really funny. Sure, you may have the Bad Place nipping at your heels and you may in fact be damned and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Is Anybody Out There?” (S5, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … RADIOACTIVE CLOUDS, LOVE SWEET LOVE AND BUSTED VENDING MACHINES RIPE FOR THE TAKING … It is a rare thing indeed to watch an hour of apocalyptic television – and by that I mean TV of an apocalyptic nature, not reality TV whose sheer banal awfulness signals the Continue Reading
5 big, fun #SDCC TV trailers: Picard, Snowpiercer, Family Guy, The Witcher, Carnival Row
San Diego Comic Con is big, REALLY BIG. The just-concluded massive pop culture-a-thon is the must-be place to see and hear all the latest news and trailers about your favourite TV shows and soon to be favourite TV shows, and movies coming down the pipe. Given its gignatuan size and Continue Reading
Stranger Things’ Hopper as Magnum P.I.? Yes, please and thank you
Stranger Things 3 is the current undisputed watercooler king of Netflix. Attracting a record 40 million Netflix account views, the show has a lot going for it, including one Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) who, once again, when he’s trying to stop his daughter Jane/Eleven/El (Milly Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Continue Reading
Mutants, job obsolence, and new phones: Rocko’s Modern Life – Static Cling
SNAPSHOTAfter being in space for around 20 years, Rocko and his friends attempt to conform to an even more modern life in O-Town, where coffee shops are on every corner, food trucks offer multi-layered tacos, touch-screen O-Phones are being upgraded on a near-constant basis, an instant-print kiosk has replaced Rocko’s Continue Reading