One of the great delights of The Flying Nun (1967-1970) was, and shall always be, how wonderfully sweet Sister Bertille (played by Gidget herself, the incomparable Sally Field) is in just about every scene. I know that kind of naively-enthusiastic caring character is not really in vogue anymore; people like Continue Reading
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Forget the Good Place or the bad place! What about The Infinite Place?
Iron Man isn’t afraid of ANYTHING. How do we know this? Well, according to the latest brilliantly-clever, very funny animated video from the talented Leigh Lahav, not even death ruffles his cooler-than-cool feathers. Appearing before Michael from NBC’s sitcom-of-the-moment The Good Place, Iron Man is not the least bit Continue Reading
Colony: “Sea Spray” (S3, E10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … OUTLIERS AND SKULDUGGERY APLENTY … We all know that the Morkocalypse, which is what the alien apocalypse of Colony shall henceforth be named after the inspiring renaming of the RAPs by one of the proto-members of Broussard (Tory Kittles) and Will’s (Josh Holloway) new resistance cell, Dave Continue Reading
Christmas in July #2: I read A Sesame Street Christmas by Pat Tornborg
If you’re a big kid at heart, and honestly where is the fun in not being one, then you’ll adore the idea of immersing in the loveliness and bonhomie of A Sesame Street Christmas. First published in by Golden Books in 1982 with a delightful story of the Muppets Continue Reading
No calm after the storm: Fear the Walking Dead debuts S4b poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters
I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading
LONGEST. FLIGHT. EVER. What happened to the much-delayed passengers of Manifest?
SNAPSHOT Manifest begins “when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up Continue Reading
Who is responsible for the distinctive look of sitcoms? You might be surprised
SNAPSHOT Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis, the silent film classic. But then he designed the set for I Love Lucy – the first of the multicam, laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Today, they look bland, but it wasn’t always that way. But at the time, Freund had a Continue Reading
Colony: “The Big Empty” (S3, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … TORTURE AND GRIEF’S PARTIAL RESOLUTION Ask anyone who has experienced immense and immeasurable grief to describe it in any way. Odds are you will be given a bewildered look and an exhausted shrug of the shoulders accompanied by a haunting look in the eyes that this Continue Reading
Trio o’ TV trailers: Disenchantment, Wellington Paranormal, Nightflyers
Oh boy do we need more TV shows! Actually in the strictest not really since, unless you’re some kind of automaton (and if you are, when’s Skynet making their move, please?), no one really has the time in Peak Glut TV for any more programs in their schedule but Continue Reading