Category Archives: TV
Binge Watch Diary – Jessica Jones (Part 2)
Ain’t nobody got time to write a thousand words on each episode of these Netflix shows, when they’re all released together in huge 13-hour chunks. So I’m trying a new format: just jotting down some quick observations and impressions from … Continue reading
Binge Watch Diary – Jessica Jones (Part 1)
So the second of the TV series produced by the Marvel/Netflix team-up is here (after the megahit Daredevil). Since I’m really (too much) into both Marvel comics and detective noir, I’d love to write an episode-by-episode analysis of this series…. … Continue reading
“There’s no nice way to say you’re about to die.” – Face the Raven (Doctor Who)
(Full spoilers) (….) Oh wow, they killed off Clara two episodes before the season finale. Wasn’t expecting that… A mysterious death sentence connected to a shadowy raven draws the Doctor and Clara to a kind of alien Diagon Alley hidden … Continue reading
“None of this makes any sense.” – Sleep No More (Doctor Who)
Someone on the Doctor Who writing staff has obviously been paying attention to all those recent internet thinkpieces about the value of sleep, how modern life is degrading our sleep, and the stories of people trying to “hack their sleep … Continue reading
My Favourite Festive TV Specials
I LOVE Christmas. I’m that guy who only like Halloween because as soon as it’s over, it’s time to get ready for Christmas. The guy who put up his tree two weeks ago. The guy who’s sitting here in a … Continue reading
“Who says I am alone?” – The Woman Who Lived (Doctor Who)
After a stretch of episodes brooding over death and mortality, Doctor Who takes a break this week to remind us that living forever is also pretty hard… Wandering around the 18-somethings England, the Doctor bumps into Maise William’s Ashildr, who … Continue reading
“And then they have to eat all their friends” – The Mainland
A trait of the show’s later episodes is that Linehan and Mathews, ouroborus-like, began incorporating storylines that could never even have occurred to them had the programme not been an ongoing success. Showbiz and glamour began to seep into Craggy … Continue reading
“A good death is the best anyone can hope for.” – The Girl Who Died (Doctor Who)
There’s a character in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics named Hob Gadling. He meets the titular Sandman (who’s something like a God of Dreams) in a pub in Shakespearean England, and they strike up a conversation about life and death and … Continue reading
Flashpoints – Flash of Two Worlds
Flash of Two Worlds, if ever there was an episode title to blow the minds of hardcore Flash fans it would have to be one that celebrates the introduction of the multiverse condensed by Barry Allen meeting Jay Garrick! Aside … Continue reading
“You’ve been here before.” – Under the Lake/ Before the Flood (Doctor Who)
So there’s a long established, frequently recurring type of Doctor Who story that sometimes gets called a “base under siege” episode. They’re the bread-and-butter entries that usually show up once or twice a season: the Doctor and his companion wander … Continue reading
What Else Is On? 