Let’s not beat around the bush. We all know that someone is dying in Avengers: Infinity War (opens in new tab). Maybe even more than one someone. Thanos is the Big Bad (capital Bs warranted) and there’s no way the Avengers and co are taking him down without losing some …
Read More »Dolores is darker, Bernard is damaged, and 11 other things you need to know about Westworld season 2
Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) is very nearly here and we still know surprisingly little about what we’ll be getting when it arrives. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing – the success of the first season is mainly down to the fact that you don’t know what’s going …
Read More »“It corrupts or subjugates everybody and everything” – Why The Handmaids Tale is still TVs most terrifyingly relevant future
Praise be, readers. The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 is here. If your skin just chilled a few degrees at that greeting then you know the power of novelist Margaret Atwood’s prose – or you were transfixed by the TV adaptation of her dystopian exploration of misogyny and corrupted religion, The …
Read More »Here’s what was cut from The Walking Dead season 8 finale (and when we might get to see it)
Not everything made it into The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) finale. Clocking in at a relatively-lean 47 minutes, there was certainly space to include a few extra scenes. But everything which was cut seemed to have been left out for a reason, and it might just …
Read More »“Please shut the **** up” – These reactions to annoying A Quiet Place moviegoers say it all
Shh. You. Yes, you! The one who has decided today would be a good day to start practising mouth breathing and then sniffing every twelve seconds as if your life depended on it. A Quiet Place (opens in new tab) isn’t for you. Some people didn’t get the memo about …
Read More »Netflix recently cancelled another underappreciated ‘best sitcom ever’… and it’s (probably) your fault
Hear ye, assemble and mourn, for alas it has happened again. Yes, friends, it has come time for another undeserving name to be nailed to the rotting, blood spattered monument to Amazing TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time. And it is, once again, all your fault. Possibly. Either way, I …
Read More »“The ultimate guilty pleasure” – Read the first reactions to the Rampage movie
What do you get when you cross The Rock and Negan with a 20-foot gorilla and a flying wolf? Rampage, that’s what. It sounds like proper rip-roaring popcorn fare too. Don’t take my word for it, listen to the lucky ones who managed to snag a place at the world …
Read More »Yes, it sounds like bullsh*t, but according to this experiment gaming, movie, and TV spoilers supposedly make stories better
Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re probably ready to mount my head on a pike for suggesting that spoilers can increase your enjoyment of a movie, TV show, or game. And by no means am I suggesting we should start blurting out spoilers as soon as we get our hands on …
Read More »Legion season 2 episode 1 review – bizarre, brilliant, and smart TV
It’s probably best if you don’t try to understand everything in the Legion season 2 episode 1, and just go along with it. You’ll definitely enjoy it more that way. If anything, it feels like the showrunners have gone even more arthouse and conceptual with season 2, and the first …
Read More »Read Carl’s full (heartbreaking) letter to Rick from The Walking Dead season 8 episode 15
Despite all the zombie bites, eerie visions, and, yes, that bloody helicopter, The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) seems to reach out and grab that extra little bit of quality when it quietens down. Case in point: dearly departed Carl and his letters to both Negan and …
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