FOR TWO SEASONS, those of us who’ve been watching FX’s Man Seeking Woman have watched as Josh Greenberg (Jay Baruchel) comes constantly close to happiness, never to quite reach it. It’s always been a programme...
YOU’VE DONE IT. You’ve been ill and stayed at home all week watching some honest-to-god-terrible TV show. You’ve invested that entire week in one programme and kept it like a dark secret because it...
“LAWS, LIKE SAUSAGES, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” – Jon Saxe Politics has gotten really weird. I mean, it’s always been a bacon-bowl mouth-burn of conflicting human interests...
TO SAY THAT Period Drama, and especially BBC Period Drama, had become a tad stale, trite even, is an understatement. I certainly have had simply enough of corsets and horse drawn carriages and stiff,...
SO LET’S ACKNOWLEDGE the elephant in the article: It was Valentine’s Day yesterday. But really, what could be more TV section than to release this a day late. Still, let’s pretend that you’re reading...
NO ONE KNOWS what happens next. If we could, well it would change everything. Let’s be honest though, it would ruin the fun if we did know. It certainly would make writers’ jobs less...
Planet Earth II made us all into awestruck children once again and that was really important. It felt like a fairy tale didn’t it? Here is a sky. Here is a climate, as defined and...
Take a tally of how many articles you have read recently that opened with the cheery missive ‘2016 has been a garbage fire of a year.’ If your reading habits are anything like mine,...
PERFECTION IS IMPOSSIBLE. Try as we want, even aiming for contentment is difficult. Even if you manage to achieve the lofty aims of feeling like you have that barest of minimum levels of happiness,...
Stranger Things is one of two televised series I really got into this summer, for very different reasons, but I’ll get onto that another time. The Duffer brothers’ short series is one big love...
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