When you think about it, sitcoms have to accomplish a huge amount in 20 very short minutes. They have to make us care about characters, develop a cohesive storyline, obviously make us laugh – hence the comedy bit – and somewhere in the midst of all of this activity, Continue Reading
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Fear the Walking Dead: “Weak” (S4, 12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME REASSURING AND CHILLING IDEAS ON WHAT CONSTITUTES STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS We are kings and queens of the fight-or-flight response, and for good reason; back in ye olde prehistoric days, hanging around for a fight you couldn’t win or staying in the path of some Continue Reading
Garak in high-res? Deep Space Nine doco What We Left Behind offers that tantalising possibility
True to my idiosyncratic form on pretty much everything, my favourite Star Trek show of all Star Trek shows is Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999. A marked departure from the shows up to this point, but not so much afterwards where the Continue Reading
Cyndi Lauper and Seth McFarlane make beautiful Family Guy music together
Talk about a dream come true! Two of my favourite creative people in the world together on the one show, The Graham Norton Show to be exact, combining their talents to gloriously good effect. Taking the songs of the brilliantly-talented and quirkly-lovable Cyndi Lauper at the urging of host Continue Reading
Saturday Morning TV: The Wombles
One of the fascinating aspects of looking back at characters that were a part of your childhood or youth is discovering, often quite profoundly, just how much they mean to you way back when. Of course as an eight-year-old in 1973 I wasn’t sitting in front of the TV Continue Reading
Things are changing in Atypical S2 trailer but Sam’s not a fan
SNAPSHOT Set in the wake of some major changes in the Gardner family’s natural environment, Sam (Keir Gilchrist) is struggling to adapt to some shifts in his high school friend group. Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is still trying to earn back the trust of her husband Doug (Michael Rappaport) Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Code” (S4, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY TOO MUCH MORGAN FOR ONE EPISODE … “Morgan, it’s not me, it’s you – I think I should start seeing other characters.” That, dear readers, is my imagined opening gambit in a conversation with good old Morgan (Lennie James), a character who whinged about Continue Reading
Sesame Street: How They Became Bert & Ernie (Fresh Prince of Bel Air parody)
There are many reasons to go to Sesame Street – there are 26 very good reasons I can think of straight off the bat – but one of the main ones, apart from watching my favourite monster Grover do this thing (super and otherwise), is to watch the latest Continue Reading
Meatball cake anyone? Release your inner child with Esme & Roy
SNAPSHOT Esme (pronounced EZ-may) (Millie Davis) and her best monster friend Roy (Patrick McKenna) live in Monsterdale, and their monster sitting business is going well. When the pair’s all-purpose carrying case starts playing a jazzy Dixieland tune, Esme says ‘We’ve got a monster to watch!’” Adulthood is supposed to Continue Reading
Overwhelmed by the choices on Netflix? You’re not alone
SNAPSHOT I’m gonna throw Netflix an easy one here Forrest Gump. You know what I know it was on there. I saw it on there I saw it with my own eyes and it’s gone. …speaking of TV shows that I’ve never seen because I’m not big on TV, Continue Reading