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
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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
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 5 – Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia
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
Saturday morning TV: The Peter Potamus Show
Launching in September 1964 as a companion program to The Magilla Gorilla Show, The Peter Potamus Show is, like many of the Hanna-Barbera animated shows, a vehicle for multiple characters to get their moment in the Saturday morning TV sun. While early promotional materials listed the program as Peter Potamus Continue Reading
Respect is coming: Elmo urges Game of Thrones’ Tyrion and Cersei to treat each other well
SNAPSHOT Respect brings us together, and if anyone can convince Game of Thrones’s Cersei and Tyrion to get along, a familiar furry red friend might just be the one. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Oh, the fun they must have had with this one! The latest marriage of Sesame Street, which Continue Reading
HBO Backstories: Creators talk about Barry, Game of Thrones and Insecure
For many TV or streaming viewers, seeing the finished show is enough; there’s no need to peek behind the curtain and see what led to their fully-formed, and hopefully, entertaining creation. But there are those of us, and I count myself among them, who like to find out what was Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2” (S2, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE WORLD OF EPIC PAIN AND INSPIRATION … Hang onto your hats, people, for in the finale of Star Trek: Discovery season 2, we are going into sentience-saving battle! That much we knew after last week’s brilliantly-told first instalment of the two-part finale but watching Continue Reading
Not quite Disney princesses but Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons now have a lot more in common
Nothing says warm and family-friendly like The Simpsons right? They’re practically neighbours to all that is pure and wholesome, and well, Disney-esque; OK possibly not, but with Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox done and dusted, with Tinkerbell’s glitter dust naturally, they do now share the same owner as Buzz Continue Reading
Easter festival #2: Yogi the Easter Bear
Yogi Bear, as we all know thanks to his constant recitation of the self-ascribed fact, is “smarter than the average bear.” But Yogi, who first made his appearance as an extra on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958, is not always as smart as he claims to be, at least Continue Reading