The History Channel’s Vikings is close to its endgame with the first part of it sixth season. Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) has overthrown Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) to become king of Kattegat. But being a king gives Bjorn a new set of challenges. His mother, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) plans to retire from politics and set […]
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Impending Issues for the Streaming Market
We are living in a golden age of TV thanks to the streaming revolution. Showrunners and directors have been given more creative freedom and there has been a constant flow of new shows. Yet the rise of streaming has been so fast that it leads to the fears that we are on the edge of […]
Making the Cut (Spoiler-Free Review)
One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out. Heidi Klum is back (sans that phrase) being all “judgy” (pardon my pun) and Tim Gunn is back in a supporting role (the puns just continue, don’t they) in Amazon Prime’s new fashion reality show Making the Cut, a 10-episode series that drops two episodes […]
The Expanse Season Four (Spoiler-Free) Review
Despite being in the era of Peak TV, where there is more than enough television to sate anyone’s particular appetites, there is one area where supply is not meeting demand: Science Fiction. Considering how the past decade has made more “nerdy” interests mainstream (see the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars films), that same […]
Fleabag – Season Two Review
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a woman who has had a meteoric rise in the British TV industry. At the age of 34 she has created two hit shows for the BBC, Killing Eve and Fleabag. She chooses to make a second and supposedly final season to the award-winning Fleabag. The second season picks up a year after the first. Tensions are running […]
Informer Review
Informer was a BBC miniseries described as a character-driven thriller which lasted for six episodes. Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is young British-Pakistani whose is is forced to infiltrate a terrorist cell by Gabe Waters (Paddy Considine), a detective for the Met’s Counter Terrorism unit. Gabe promises Raza that his mother would get a British passport if he’s successful, but if […]
Ann Rolls Green Review
Since the growth of streaming services more indie filmmakers have been able to distribute their films to a wider audience. Whilst Netflix gets most of the attention there are lots of short films and feature-length films on Amazon Prime, including the Bristol set comedy Ann Rolls Green. Ann (Kayleigh-Paige Rees) is a young but confrontational […]