I watch a lot of television. I mean, a LOT of television. If you’ve glanced at this site for longer than five nano-seconds, that much will be obvious. The downside to watching so much television is negligible really, but it can make remembering much of what you’ve seen, in Continue Reading
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Colony: “Hospitium” (S3, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DICTATORS ALIEN AND TERRESTRIAL … If the oft-blighted annals of human history have taught us anything, it’s that humanity is often its own worst enemy. Quite the cliche you might think but as Colony demonstrated with its usual incisive aplomb this week, it’s a cliche Continue Reading
Eight boys … one crazy family … new sitcom The Kids Are Alright
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1970s, the ensemble, single-camera comedy follows a traditional Irish-Catholic family, the Clearys, as they navigate big and small changes during one of America’s most turbulent decades. In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys who live out their days Continue Reading
Colony: “Sierra Maestra” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DISSENSION, A BIG ALIEN REVEAL AND THE DANGER OF SHOPPING IN THE ALIEN APOCALYPSE Depending on your level of Biblical literacy – as a pastor’s kid, mine is ridiculously high though rarely lived-out these days – you may or may not be aware of a Continue Reading
Little girl, big city! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt loses its berets over season 4
As a gay man, it’s not an everyday occurrence for me to fall in love with a woman. But I long ago fell head over heels in love, smittenness and eternal like with Kimmy Schmidt (apologies to Sandra Bullock, my other great love), she of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Just in Case” (S4, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE TRUTH TO THE AXIOM THAT YOU CAN’T GO BACK … UNLESS YOU’RE IN A BACKSTORY IN WHICH CASE YOU CAN … Regrets – we all have them. In our case though, in our cosy non-zombie apocalypse existence, regrets are nothing more than irritating callouses Continue Reading
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Murphy Brown makes her triumphantly sassy return
SNAPSHOT Multiple Emmy Award winners Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English reunite for Murphy Brown, the revival of the ground-breaking comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24-hour cable, social media, “fake news,” and a vastly Continue Reading
Colony: “Puzzle Man” (S3, E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MISTRUST AND GUNS AND A DISTINCT LACK OF FRIENDLINESS … So … NEWS FLASH! Even with aliens laying waste to us, our planet and and any sense of integrity we had as a species – did we have any? If we did, the likes of Continue Reading
Off he goes! All the times Rick went rogue #RickandMorty
SNAPSHOT Part of what makes Rick who he is, is by doing whatever he wants when he wants. Here are all the times Rick went rogue in Rick and Morty! (synopsis (c) GameSpot Universe) Let’s face it – apart from the clever writing, outrageously imaginative stories, gobsmackingly creative world-building and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Laura” (S4, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOVE IN A TIME OF APOCALYPSE … Forget your rom-coms with their “meet cutes”, their getting-to-know-you montages and their misunderstandings resolved at the airport. Or your romantic poets like Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. Your songs of fidelity, enrapturement and eternal devotion. Or your Harlequin romances Continue Reading