TV

So many streaming shows, so little time. When you survey the bewildering multiplicity of options for your viewing time out there, it can begin to feel like there is far too much of a good thing; but just as you’re about to throw in the towel, you realise how good Continue Reading

SNAPSHOT“… the new special, “Legend of the Sea Devils”, is taking the Doctor, Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) to 19th century China. The big historical highlight of the special belongs to Crystal Yu as real life pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao, aka Madame Ching. Ching was considered one Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Strange New Worlds features Anson Mount as Captain Pike alongside Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn who also reprise their Discovery roles as Spock and Number One, a.k.a. Una Chin-Riley, respectively. Filling out the crew of the USS Enterprise are Jess Bush (Skinford) as Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Continue Reading

On the face of it, and by that we mean a highly entertaining trailer rife with gleefully appealing parodic elements, Our Flag Means Death looks like it will a highly amusing, nay ridiculously hilarious, sideways take on the classic age of piracy. And in an age when pandemic, climate change Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTAccording to Hulu, season two will see Charles, Oliver, and Mabel “race to unmask” who killed Arconia board president Bunny Folger. It won’t be easy, though. For a whole lot of reasons that are bad for them but great for viewers. They’ll deal with multiple “complications.” The group “is publicly Continue Reading

There seems to be a widely held perception that Star Trek: Discovery is wildly inconsistent, a newly-installed flagship series for the franchise that never quite manages to do anything remarkable. Quite why that is is open to debate – as the lead series for the new wave of multitudinous Star Continue Reading

My viewing habits are nothing if not eclectic! For proof, I give you this post, exhibit A which features zombies, supernatural teens and wisecracking coming-of-age Northern Irish friends – each series completely and utterly different and inherently, wonderfully watchable. As I type this, I am holed up in my partner Continue Reading

Paradise is, by its very definition, supposed to be a place of perfect happiness and contentment where the flaws and brokenness of the real world find sweet, endlessly fulfilling resolution. But as Greg Daniel’s (The Office, Parks and Recreation) newest comedic creation Upload makes thoughtfully, if humourously clear, in its Continue Reading