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Thursday, 30 November 2023

Twin Peaks: Pilot

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 "Laura is the one..." Oh my. That was... unlike any television pilot I've ever seen. Although it was very, well, David Lynch....
Wednesday, 29 November 2023

The Defenders: Ashes, Ashes

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"Any questions...?" Wow. The Defenders is on fire as we approach the endgame. So many twists and turns. Not that it's all sho...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: The Highest in the Land?

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 "You should see some of the names in the papers we haven't let you see..." And so we have it... or do we? The centrepiece of ...
Monday, 27 November 2023

The Defenders: Take Shelter

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 "You are the dumbest Iron Fist yet!" This is a fascinating episode. The heroes are not yet fully a team, not least because Matt i...
Sunday, 26 November 2023

Better Call Saul: Smoke

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 "Well Howard, I guess that's your cross to bear..." We begin, as season openers tend to do, in the monochrome, smaller-than-l...
Saturday, 25 November 2023

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

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 "You can wear a suit that tight up to the age of thirty-five... and no further!" SPOILERS, obvs. Oh, RTD, how I've missed you...
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Friday, 24 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: Suspects

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 "The Ripper played cricket?!!!" Here I go again, with yet another Jack the Ripper . Fear not, though: tomorrow is Doctor Who , so...
Thursday, 23 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: Panic

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 "... and by that I mean the City of Oporto the port, not the City of Oporto, the ship."# Ahem. Sorry, but this series is a Class ...
Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: Butchery

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 "One does not need to be a Sherlock Holmes…” This is fascinating stuff. We have the Freemasonry theories about the “Juwes” and clear h...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: Double Event

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 "Good at stopping riots, bad ar catching Rippers!" The second episode is as gripping as the first, with the conceit of Barlow and...
Monday, 20 November 2023

The Prestige (2006)

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"You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled." I've seen this film before, a few years before this blog wa...
Saturday, 18 November 2023

Doctor Who: Destination Skaro

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 “I like it!” Yes, this is only five odd minutes. Yes, the tone is very much Children in Need , geared towards a very different audience to ...
Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Jack the Ripper: The First Two

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 "A middle class Ripper...?" Yes, I know, this is a fantastically obscure bit of telly. It's a drama, not a documentary, from ...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Gen V: Guardians of Godolkin

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 "That was Andy. He was hilarious. And then really sad. He was bipolar." Wow. That's quite a twist at the end. And it's qu...
Monday, 13 November 2023

Better Call Saul: Lantern

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 "In the end, you're going to hurt everyone around you. You can't help it. So stop apologising and accept it." The above q...
Sunday, 12 November 2023

The Marvels (2023)

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 "Do you just add the word 'quantum' before everything?" I don't usually watch films at the cinema because it's a ...

Dementia 13 (1963)

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 "Drink's the only road to survival in this climate." No, I have no idea what the title means either. This is, however, a deli...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

Loki: Glorious Purpose

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 "The last thing I want is a throne." SPOILERS, obviously. I mean, this is not only the season finale but surely ends the show for...
Friday, 10 November 2023

Gen V: Sick

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 "In my defence, he was a puppet at the time, so..." Gen V has been a consistently excellent television programme throughout, but ...
Monday, 6 November 2023

Robin of Sherwood: The King's Fool

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 "We're his pets. The wolves clever Richard trapped and tamed." I'm impressed. For the second episode in the row we riff o...
Sunday, 5 November 2023

Julius Caesar (1953)

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 " Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death." I'm utterly knackered today after a lo...
Saturday, 4 November 2023

Loki: Science/Fiction

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 “Reality isn’t what you think it is.” So, last episode painted everything into a corner. It gave us the ultimate cliffhanger: everything is...
Thursday, 2 November 2023

Gen V: Jumanji

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 "I fart the star spangled banner!" I haven't seen the titular film, so no doubt there are all sorts of pop culture references...

Tales of the TARDIS

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 Obviously I haven’t watched the omnibus versions of all these old Doctor Who stories I’ve seen countless times before, just the fabulous n...
Monday, 30 October 2023

The Defenders: Royal Dragon

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 "Who hears neon?" This is my favourite episode of The Defenders thus far. I suspect, although I can't comment on what to co...
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Gen V: Welcome to the Monster Club

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 "You're a ***ing monster." Again, wow. Gen V continues to be simply extraordinary, but this week in an entirely different way...
Saturday, 28 October 2023

Loki: Heart of the TVA

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 "I promise you this will make sense!" Wow. This is some extraordinary, important, timey-wimey storytelling with revelation after ...
Thursday, 26 October 2023

Robin of Sherwood: Alan a Dale

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 "It's a wedding, Gisburne. Not a celebration.." I rather enjoyed this episode, perhaps the best yet. Nickolas Grace really is...
Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Gen V: The Whole Truth

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 "You have a... a piece of eardrum on your shoulder." Obviously, this episode is awesome. I mean, it's Gen V. I expect all fut...
Monday, 23 October 2023

Out of This World: Little Lost Robot

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 "The wheels of Dr Calvin grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small." This is the first episode I've ever blogged of this f...
Sunday, 22 October 2023

Better Call Saul: Fall

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 "This is not what fine looks like..." This episode is eventful, as penultimate episodes of seasons often are. We see Mike's f...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

Loki: 1893

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 "And why'd they include Balder? No one's heard of him." Oh Boy. This isa bloody brilliant, hugely exciting bit of televis...
Thursday, 19 October 2023

The Defenders: Worst Behaviour

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 "The Black Sky! We have it!" The opening is thrilling. After Alexandra once again hints she may be older than she looks- did she ...
Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Gen V: #ThinkBrink

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 "Shall we talk about our intercourse situation?" The quote isn't even the funniest thing about sex in this episode: that woul...
Monday, 16 October 2023

Robin of Sherwood: Seven Poor Knights from Acre

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 "You'll get too big foryour boots, you will." "Then I'll get bigger boots." This episode impressed me. In theor...
Sunday, 15 October 2023

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

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Having reread this novel for the first time in decades- this time having actually having read Caves of Steel first- I've concluded that...
Friday, 13 October 2023

Loki: Breaking Brad

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 "We're all gonna die! Oh, hey, pleased to meet you." This new season continues to be very good indeed. In fact, thus far it...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Gen V: First Day

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 "That is really Freudian..." Two episodes in and... this is just as good as The Boys . No wonder it seems to be doing very well i...
Sunday, 8 October 2023

Better Call Saul: Slip

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 "This is the land of the free and the home of the lawsuit." Once again, and I know I'm always saying this, an episode that...

Jason X (2001)

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 "Be glad you weren't alive during the Microsoft conflict..." It's the tail end of a tired slasher franchise, known for it...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

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 "The desert is merciless. It takes everything from you." It's up in the air, at this point, whether I'm going to blog the...
Friday, 6 October 2023

Loki: Ouroboros

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 "I need a Loki who remains!" Yep, this is bloody brilliant, all right. We ended last season on a big reveal and a big dilemma: to...
Wednesday, 4 October 2023

Ahsoka: Part Eight- The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord

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 "Perhaps this is where a ronin such as you belongs." This is, perhaps, the perfect finale. A satisfying ending... and a very Star...

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

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This is,in one sense, an odd beast: a magic realist novel, that most South American of genres, yet utterly, utterly English, indeed utterly,...
Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Update

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 So... Ahsoka finishes tomorrow. I shall attempt to blog it on the day. There are also two further ewpisodes of Gen V to catch up on. Then...
Monday, 2 October 2023

Gen V: God U.

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 "It's like a big, fiery cucumber..." I had no idea what to expect from this university-themed spin-off from The Boys , full o...
Sunday, 1 October 2023

Ahsoka: Part Seven- Dreams and Madness

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 "He was a good master." On one level, this is a penultimate episode that serves to get all the pieces on to the chessboard. Thraw...

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

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 "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness." Somehow, in twelve year...
Saturday, 30 September 2023

Chasing Amy (1997)

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 "Since you like chicks, right, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time?" Time for another View Askewniverse...
Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Inspector Morse: The Last Enemy

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 "Dr. Kerridge! We are trying to master the Veleta!" Nearly a year and a half seem to have gone by since the last time I blogged I...
Friday, 22 September 2023

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

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 "Evil! Pure and simple from the Eighth Dimension! Grab them!" Um, what did I just watch? This is one of those films I've hear...