Television

With cinemas being closed for the next few months and people confined to their homes, TV has played a major role in helping people get through the coronavirus crisis. Thankfully, there's been many great new shows and seasons to binge. Here,…

A sprawling city, a host of tropical islands dotted around a vast blue archipelago, a high school full of clubs and constant development - this is world building at its most basic. Every work of fiction has world building to some extent. It…

The streaming giant Netflix has rapidly gone from being a by-the-numbers streaming service to a massively influential cultural behemoth. There are an estimated 167.1 million active Netflix accounts as of 2020, with some estimates claiming…

Ancient Egypt is a setting that for many animators has fueled their imagination for years. After all, it’s a culture with a vast history featuring everything from pharaohs to mummies, a pantheon of gods to the pyramids, hieroglyphics to…

Spoilers for 2019's The Twilight Zone reboot. About a year late, in relative isolation, I watched the first season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone. When the show came out I was intrigued, feeling that Peele’s twisted and dark…

Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) was designed in a lab to make girls swoon. He’s one of the popular kids; handsome and sporty but also quiet, introspective and just a little bit shy. Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones), on the other hand,…

Spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 5 There is no stronger contender for the title of breakout star in Better Call Saul than Rhea Seehorn’s Kim Wexler. We are introduced to Kim in the show’s pilot “Uno”. Over the following five seasons, we…

Spoilers for Ozark Season 3 Falling in love is unavoidable. Even those conditioned against it can’t help but get hooked on it. Falling in love does not have to be romantic, and no matter what our circumstances are, it is innately human to…

"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there." - David Lynch Television three decades ago was a very bland landscape. Nothing cut…

The English Game on Netflix, the new series from Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame, explores class struggle through the development of the game of football. The central character and star footballer who creates a bridge between the…