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Well, I guess Missandei and Grey Worm won’t be getting that beach front property after all (too soon?). There’s a general problem that arises as a series that is as plot heavy as Game of Thrones approaches its end game: characters and story arcs become rigidly stuck along a particular path to get to the […]
Following a fairly uninspired opening episode, “Gorilla War” is a much stronger offering for Ghosts. After being pushed off a window ledge and waking from a coma’ Alison has gained the ability to see the dead. Thinking she has a concussion Alison tries to ignore the ghosts who attempt to drive her and her partner out […]
That was, dare I say, pretty disappointing? For all the hype, for all the talk of the longest sustained battle on screen, for all the warning of painful character deaths, we got that? An hour and a half of quick, confusing cuts (that made it incredibly hard to understand just what was happening- and who […]
Ghosts is the latest comedy show that the BBC has been heavily promoting and a part of their Monday night comedy double-bill. The only thing the opening episode had to offer was a mild entertainment. Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) are a young couple struggling to find their first property. They come into some sort of fortune when a […]
Well, that was quite a bit of fan service (even after last week’s fan service-filled premiere) to get us to the start of The Battle of Winterfell. And, honestly, I really didn’t mind. During my seven season rewatch leading up to season eight, my major takeaway was how wonderful the quiet moments of the show […]
The Long Song is a BBC miniseries based on a novel by the recently deceased Andrea Levy. What was created was a lavish, humorous and tragic period drama. The Long Song follows July (Tamara Lawrance), a house slave for the Mortimer family at the beginning of the 19th century. It is a time where slaves are starting […]
The second season of Derry Girls finishes with important visitors coming to the Northern Irish city. It’s Christmas in Derry and the city is excited because Bill Clinton coming to the province. Despite Sister Michael stating that the school would be open as normal the girls decide to skip school and watch history. Closer to home an […]
A lot of exposition was taken care of in “Winterfell,” the premiere of the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. We discovered where our remaining characters are (largely either Winterfell or King’s Landing, although I’ll be sure to take stock of those in other locales later on in the review), we saw […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Whenever there is a show about high school aged characters there has to be an episode about prom. And the Derry Girls go to their prom in their latest episode. A new student joins the school from the far off lands of Donegal. The girls immediately attempt to befriend Mae (Aoife Hinds), mainly because she’s ethnically Chinese. Mae accepts them because […]