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So, over the course of this extremely uneven debut season for Star Trek: Picard, I’ve spent a lot of time writing about ways in which the series didn’t work. And, frankly, I didn’t love doing that. What I wanted to spend these ten weeks doing was reveling in how wonderful it was to have Patrick […]
The third episode of Noughts + Crosses sees tensions, both personal and social, increase as Callum and  Sephy decide what to do next. Within Albion, the government has allowed the first sanctioned the Midsummer festival, a popular Nought event. Despite this moment of progress, there are forces within both communities who want to disrupt the festivities, leading to an unholy […]
All good things come to an end and that is the case for Bojack Horseman with the second part of the final season. Bojack has overcome his alcohol addiction and has become a professor at Wesleyan University. His new job means he can get away from the corrupting influence of Hollywoo and spend time with his half-sister. […]
Well, I think it’s clear that subtlety is not Star Trek: Picard‘s strong suit. “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1” was yet another example of the series changing the game with little to no narrative framework to support it, while also opting to tell us everything rather than take the time to show us these […]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past several years, it’s that Reese Witherspoon has clearly read more popular novels about women of a certain age dealing with family issues in their upper class enclaves than I have. Which is a long way of saying that I had never even heard of Little Fires […]
The second episode of Noughts + Crosses sees more exploration of the world of Albion and shows the growing relationship between its young leads. Tensions are rising after the death of a young Nought man due to police brutality. The tensions are stoked by Jack Dorn (Shaun Dingwall), the self-declared leader of the Liberation Militia, […]
One of the positive side effects of the current “social distancing” protocol is that it is allowing me to dig out from under the pile of screeners I’ve allowed to amass in the past few weeks. The first show on the list for me to tackle? The recently released Amazon series ZeroZeroZero, a drama that […]
Well, that was largely anti-climactic, wasn’t it? After an entire season musing about the origin of the attack on Mars – an attack that shattered the Romulan people, ended the Federation’s synthetic research, and broke one Jean-Luc Picard – we found out that it was a splinter sect of the Tal Shiar that decided they […]
If you’ve ever felt nostalgic for Alias, the early 2000s ABC spy drama that launched Jennifer Garner’s career, Queen Sono is definitely a show for you. With a first season clocking in at a very manageable six episodes (all of which run under an hour, with some even closer to 30 minutes), the first ever […]
Based on Malorie Blackman’s Noughts + Crosses series of novels the TV adaptation sees the BBC enter into the YA dystopian genre. 700 years ago in an alternative timeline, the Aprican Empire had conquered Europe, including the British Isles. In the lands of Albion society has split into two classes: the light-skinned Noughts and black-skinned Crosses. The […]