SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HORSES AND COWBOYS AND WATERSLIDING ZOMBIES … Life, huh? One minute you’re riding high-ish … the next? Well, let’s just say whatever the opposite of high is, go there and then keep digging. In the case of the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead, Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: “Wish you were fictitiously here” – imaginative postcards from pop culture locales
It was Cheers which famously asked “Wouldn’t you like to get away?” Well, yes we would and the further away from real life the better thank you very much. A nice fictional locale with none of the banal or trying trappings of the everyday would be quite lovely thank you Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Channel 5” (S5, E15 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND COLLAPSING BRIDGES, LONG EXHAUSTING WALKS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE … AND CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENT Now it may surprise you learn that public relations is still a thing in the zaombie apocalypse. That’s not so much because the undead are spruiking the marginal benefits of being eaten by them Continue Reading
The girls are back in town: Thoughts on Glow season 2
SPOILERS AND A LOT OF SPANDEX AHEAD … With its scene-setting first season successfully behind it, G.L.O.W., occupying the heady mid-decade year of 1985 this time around, takes a pleasing deep dive into the lives of the women (and a few men) who make up the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Continue Reading
Thank goodness he’s not an ordinary dog! Snoopy in Space coming to Apple TV+
SNAPSHOTSnoopy in Space follows Snoopy as his dreams of being an astronaut become a reality when he and Woodstock tag along with the Peanuts gang on a field trip to NASA and are chosen for an elite mission into space. As Snoopy and Woodstock fulfill their dreams of astronaut training Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Today and Tomorrow” (S5, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOLAR PANELS, CATS WITH BEHAVIOURAL ISSUES AND THE PATH OF TRUE LOVE NOT RUNNING SMOOTH Is there anything more creepy than someone you know, you just know, is inherently evil and up to the kind of no good that hardcore narratives are made of, acting like Continue Reading
What’s a “new normal” feel like? The Unicorn finds out
SNAPSHOTA recently widowed father with two daughters is encouraged by his friends to re-enter the dating scene. Surprisingly to both him and his friends, he becomes the most sought after single guy due to his description as an attractive working father. (synopsis via wikipedia (c) CBS) I love it when Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Leave What You Don’t” (S5, E13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND OILY ZOMBIES, REGRET AND LOSS AND SOCIOPATHS ON HORSEBACK … “Oh, the humanity!” First uttered by reporter “Herb” Morrison as he watched in horror as the Hindenburg burned on 6 May, 1937, taking 36 lives with it, this expression is normally associated with lamentation and sadness. Continue Reading
A killer second act: Thoughts on Barry season 2
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MESSY, MESSY, MESSY LIFE … If your only guide to life was the one-note, morally-simplified world of much of television or movie programming, you could be forgiven for thinking that this thing called living is a relative walk in the park. Got a major issue? It’s Continue Reading
Who put the ’80s into Stranger Things? Why the Russo brothers, of course!
SNAPSHOTIf you’ve ever seen the show Stranger Things, you’ve probably noticed a movie reference or two. Series creators Ross and Matt Duffer are huge film buffs, and they’ve used every opportunity they can to reference some of their favorite movies in Stranger Things. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) One of the Continue Reading