HBO has been serving us with high-quality viewing for some time now. Forget Game of Thrones, they also bought us The Sopranos, Girls, The Wire, Sex and the City, True Detective, and many, many more shows we binge-watched in record time. So when I was invited to find out what …
Read More »Westworld season 2 episode 1: Why did Bernard kill the Hosts?
It’s happened. Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) is finally here. You’ve watched the first episode and… you’re really confused aren’t you? Yep, me too. Unsurprisingly, the second season of Westworld is set to mess with our minds just as much as the first one, which is why we’re …
Read More »11 visions of VR that movies got wrong. Very wrong.
Ready Player One (opens in new tab) is out in cinemas, and promises to immerse viewers in the wild, pop-culture filled world of the Oasis, first dreamed up by author Ernest Cline and now brought to life by Steven Spielberg himself. When Cline was first writing his seminal novel, the …
Read More »5 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 8, episode 11 – Dead or Alive or
A Rick-less episode of The Walking Dead is, conventionally, an eventless episode of The Walking Dead, and Dead or Alive Or, the 11th chapter to season 8, was no exception. It had its moments, but this episode felt more like a set up for what’s to come than a climax …
Read More »Annihilation Ending – 5 Questions We Need Answered
Annihilation (opens in new tab) is a movie that gets off on asking questions, then leaving you whistling dixie when it comes to the answers. It completely works when you’re watching and are as lost in the lush confusion of Area X as the characters, but you’ll come out desperate …
Read More »Star Trek Discoverys slowburn start was a gamble that paid off
When it comes to genre TV, the phrase “It gets better” invariably has a whiff of desperation about it. The inference is that the show pretty much sucked to begin with, and that the faithful who stuck with it were rewarded with a couple of half-decent episodes just before the …
Read More »Holy shirt, if you’ve finished watching The Good Place, we’ve got a lot to talk about
The problem with Netflix / NBC’s absurdly-addictive The Good Place is that you want to tell everyone to watch The Good Place – like, seriously, now – but can’t explain why. For the benefit of doubt: if you haven’t watched creator Mike Schur’s (of Parks and Recreation fame) sitcom: watch …
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