SPOILERS AHEAD … AND CLEVER CATS, BURNT-OUT PLANES AND INTERESTING NEW FRIENDSHIPS … You gave got to love Daniel (Rubén Blades). A consummate survivor who has survived the very worst that the zombie apocalypse, and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) for that matter, can throw at him, Daniel is the kind Continue Reading
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The Bravest Knight: New Hulu animated series makes a beautiful case for love being love
SNAPSHOTBased on wildly popular children’s book by Daniel Errico The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived, the story chronicles a young pumpkin farmer’s adventure as he attempts to become the bravest knight who ever lived. The new series is breaking boundaries, featuring a household with two dads (Sir Cedric and Prince Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Humbug’s Gulch” (S5, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIE BOWELS WOOHOO! I MEAN, WHO DOESN’T LOVE ZOMBIE BOWELS? If there is one thing that The Walking Dead has always struggled with, it’s the humanity that should be sitting at the very heart of its storytelling. Sure, Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) used to bleat on, reasonably Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Hurt That Will Happen” (S5, E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … RADIOACTIVE ZOMBIES, FRIENDLY CATS AND THE SOUND OF GOOD INTENTIONS COMING UP HARD AGAINST HARD REALITY … Continuing the season 5 theme of doing good even when everyone else is doing bad, or at best, being protectively ambivalent, “The Hurt That Will Happen” celebrated the idea that, Continue Reading
Something inhuman approaches: Carnival Row and the fight against intolerance and darkness
SNAPSHOTBloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Delevingne (Suicide Squad) star in Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: The Herculoids
If I were Zandor (Mike Road) of The Herculoids, ruler of the Lost in Space-ish planet Amzot/Quasar, I would seriously consider installing some kickass space defence systems, or at the very least, a really big, red “Beware of the space dog” sign that would sail around in orbit and perhaps Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Here to Help” (S5, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND KIDS WITHOUT PARENTS … ZOMBIES WITHOUT SOULS AND SOME SECOND-HAND IDEALS LOOKING WORSE FOR WEAR … There’s a great yawning chasm between ideals and execution at the best of times – you know, when there’s running water, bedding and fresh episodes of Grace and Frankie – Continue Reading
Goodbye to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Final six episodes (review)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (UKS) has always been a goofily, quirky show. Almost from the word-go, but certainly as it went on over four seasons and 51 gloriously kooky episodes, one of Netflix’s big sitcom breakouts came to inhabit a televisual body that never shied away from being as hilariously off-the-wall Continue Reading
Waiting for a treat: Cookie Monster is, believe it or not, a self-control expert
SNAPSHOT Cookie Monster joins NPR’s Life Kit Parenting Podcast to talk about practicing self-control, especially when you have to wait for something you really want… like a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you’re lucky, you’re one of those people who can wait and wait Continue Reading
Grab a phone! What would a 2019 iteration of Friends look like?
We know things have changed since Friends finished its 10-season run back on 6 May, 2004 but, wondered Nerdist, just how different would be the show be if I debuted today? What would change? What would be the same? Would the changes be so dramatic that the show would be Continue Reading