SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GRIEF AND GRUBBY SELF-PRESERVATION (GUESS WHO … GO ON, YOU’LL NEVER GUESS … OK, YES YOU WILL … Grief is a perniciously unpredictable thing. Much as we might like to think we have a neatly-categorised, five stages delineated grip on it, the reality is that Continue Reading
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That’s *NOT* all folks! New Looney Tunes shorts arriving in 2019
One of the great joys of my childhood, and yes my adulthood too, has been watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the gang go through their madcap, often surreal, wittily clever and riotously funny paces. The cartoon shorts in which they appear, known collectively as Looney Tunes, ran from Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “No One’s Gone” (S4, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A GREAT BIG RATINGS-GRABBING DEATH! Saying goodbye to a character you come to know and love in a TV show in never an easy thing. It makes sense – we spend huge amounts of time with them, come to love their outlook on life and Continue Reading
Get on down Sesame Street: Elmo’s Food Rap Battle feat. Carrot vs. Sweet Potato (Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal)
SNAPSHOT Earth’s Best is proud to present Elmo’s Food Rap Battle! Elmo is hungry and has to choose a food to eat! DJ Lobster is in the kitchen to help Elmo pick what to eat with a Food Rap Battle! Crunchy Carrot (Daveed Diggs) goes head to head with Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now” (S4, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … NEAR-DEATH, FALLING STADIUMS AND THE COSILY DELUSIONAL POWER OF SELF-BELIEF … Optimism is a powerful motivator. It propels people forward in a way that pays no heed to the facts on the ground and achieves great things when everything points to ignominious failure being the only Continue Reading
I Feel Bad … the show, not my existential crisis (which is also a thing)
SNAPSHOT I Feel Bad follows “Emet, the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. OK, she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she Continue Reading
Colony: “End of the Road” (S3, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME INVOLUNTARY CAMP REDECORATING … It’s tempting to think of people fighting back against tyranny and evil as universally idealistic and possessed of good and noble intentions. In a Disney Resistance – yes you may picture Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with guns, a cache Continue Reading
Coming over all episodic: The 5 TV episodes that have left a lasting impression on me
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
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