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Showing posts with label Tom Sturridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Sturridge. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 September 2022

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope

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 "Writers are liars." I'm again following far too many series because pesky present day telly insists on throwing up The Rings...
Wednesday, 21 September 2022

The Sandman: Lost Hearts

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 "It was a pleasure being human with you." It is, perhaps, true, that the second half of this first season, adapting The Doll'...
Monday, 19 September 2022

The Sandman: Collectors

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 "I thought there'd be cereal..." My Netflix issues are fixed. Normal blogging is resumed. Phew. Things are moving fast. Rose ...
Monday, 5 September 2022

The Sandman: Playing House

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 "I'm sure he's fine..." This is, once again, rich and textured drama with much to say about dreams, both literal and in t...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

The Sandman: The Doll's House

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 "It's trerrible. We know." Watching this episode brought back long- repressed and surprisingly vivid memories of the comic bo...
Sunday, 21 August 2022

The Sandman: The Sound of Her Wings

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 "That's all there is, little one. That's all you get." Yes, that scene... I'm a parent and it shook me deeply. I'...
Wednesday, 17 August 2022

The Sandman: 24/7

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 "The trouble with stories is, if you keep them going long enough, they all end in death, don't they?" I realise that, current...
Monday, 15 August 2022

The Sandman: A Hope in Hell

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 "I am hope..." Why does Lucifer not just counter with despair, or nihilism, or some such dreary bollocks? Never mind; I usually t...
Thursday, 11 August 2022

The Sandman: Dream a Little Dream of Me

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 "What's the point of you...?" This is a pivotal episode and, as far as I recall, faithful to the comic. Much of it is set-up....
Monday, 8 August 2022

The Sandman: Imperfect Hosts

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 "He almost never murders me before lunch..." After a deep and emotional first episode, the second episode feels curiously mythica...
Friday, 5 August 2022

The Sandman: Sleep of the Just

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 "We begin in the waking world, which humanity insists on calling the real world..." For once I manage to blog the first episode o...
Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Henry VI, Part 2 (Dominic Cooke, 2016)

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"O tiget's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!" The cast also includes Stanley Townsend, Sam Troughton and Jason Watkins ...
Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Henry VI, Part 1 (Dominic Cooke, 2016)

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"A day will come when York shall claim his own..." It's been four years, but the BBC have finally got around to doing Shak...