“Bless the Harts follows a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke, and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich, in friends, family and laughter.” (synopsis via Coming Soon) There’s something about animation that gets me Continue Reading
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Hell is other people: Thoughts on … After Life
The thing about grief, which hangs over After Life like an omnipresent dark cloud, is that it doesn’t play out the way you think it will when it’s simply an abstract concept. In other words, when you’ve yet to lose someone. But when that kind of life-altering, world-shattering loss strikes, Continue Reading
Dream over or just begun? Eurovision 2019 – who won, who lost and who’s sweeping up the glitter?
One of the fun things to do as you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, and trust me “fun” is a relative concept in this instance, is to try and divine which songs Europe will, and just as importantly, won’t like, and thus which will progress from the two semi finals Continue Reading
Beverly Hills 90210 reboot: Can’t get the theme song out of my head
SNAPSHOT The series, which premieres August 7, is a quasi-revival of the original featuring the original actors of the 1990s teen drama playing “heightened” versions of themselves. In a tongue-in-cheek twist, the actors star as versions of themselves reuniting as they consider a 90210 revival. How’s that for meta? (source: Continue Reading
Cameras … zombies … action! Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead is almost here!
SNAPSHOT Heading into season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead, the group’s mission is clear: locate survivors and help make what’s left of the world a slightly better place. With dogged determination, Morgan Jones leads the group with a philosophy rooted in benevolence, community and hope. Each character believes that Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: Help! … It’s the Hair Bear Bunch
For a kid who dutifully played by the rules the entire time I was growing up (eldest child; say no more), I sure had a love for cartoons where people or bears or squid or rabbits – or insert creature of your choosing – flouted the regulations with gleeful, mischievous Continue Reading
Here at Schmoopy Doop last! Rick and Morty announces season 4 premiere date
Two years everyone! Almost two long years! That’s how long it’s been – well, technically one year and seven months but you can’t shout that without sounding ridiculously and embarrassingly over-precise – since we saw new episodes and could grab our Szechuan Sauce and sit back and enjoy the inspired, Continue Reading
You’re braver than you think: Thoughts on … Bonding
You have to love a show that defies expectations. Bonding is just such a show, and trust me, it is a very easy show to love. Set in the world of BDSM sex, where people pay to have their fetishistic fantasies enacted, Bonding tells the story of long time friends, Continue Reading
Living. Laughing. Limping. – Thoughts on Special
The world is not exactly a kind, forgiving place. That won’t comes as a newsflash to pretty much anyone, but what might come as an epiphany of sorts, especially if you’re the kind of person lacking in the kind of self-awareness necessary for any kind of truly-fulfilling life, is how Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 6 – Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading