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The Novichok Attack was one of the most shocking international events in recent years. The BBC’s dramatization focus on the impact of this event had on the city of Salisbury. The Salisbury Poisonings on three main sets of characters. DS Nick Bailey (Rafe Spall) was one of the first police officers to investigate the Skripals’ […]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine came back with a shorter run of 13 episodes for their seventh season. After the events of the Season Six Holt had been demoted to patrolman by his nemesis, Madeline Wunch. He has to serve this sentence for a year before he can become Captain again. Jake and Amy decide it’s time to […]
Dystopian stories are a subgenre fiction that the British have mastered, including Alan Moore’s famous graphic novel V for Vendetta. It was famously adapted by the Wachowskis in 2005 and the film immediately became a cult classic. In the near future, Britain has become a fascist state. The government constantly blasts religious propaganda, Islam is […]
Love, Victor, a sequel of sorts to the gay teen rom-com Love, Simon, had a winding road to its upcoming premiere on Hulu. Originally planned as a Disney+ original series, the streaming network got scared earlier this year and announced (after some additional time in cancellation limbo) that the series would be moved to Hulu […]
The Smith family goes camping in the episode “Childrick of Mort.” But when Rick’s involved there is always a sci-fi twist. Jerry takes his family away on a camping trip so they can get away from technology. Rick hijacks the trip when he receives a call from his ex, a planet called Gaia, and discovers […]
An interesting shift has happened over the last couple of months in the streaming war between Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and AppleTV+: Hulu has surged ahead in the race to develop the best original content. Yes, a large part of that surge has come from taking on the FX on Hulu imprint (which has also […]
Writer/director Stephen Poliakoff is a favourite of the BBC. His most recent series is a Cold War-set spy-thriller/family drama. Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens) is a Russian Jew who moved to the UK when he was eight. He’s a middle-class man who wants to be accepted by the British establishment, but he is looked at with […]
“The Vat of Acid Episode” was an episode that showed how inventive Rick and Morty can be and was a big improvement over the previous episode. After meeting a pair of intergalactic gangster Morty mocks Rick for making them hide in a fake vat of acid. Morty adds to the mockery by taunting Rick into […]
The Office and Parks and Recreation are routinely heralded as two of the best comedies of the 21st century (and both are often mentioned on “Best of” lists that encompass a more significant period of time). But what fans of both shows will be quick to mention is that they became beloved in spite of […]
The fifth film of Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, was one of contrasts. The biggest being the conflict between a talented director and a terrible screenplay. Years after the events of Jurassic World the volcano on Isla Nublar is about to erupt and the dinosaurs would suffer a second extinction event. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) leads […]