Television

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…

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Salvador Dali As society continues on in lockdown mode, the inquisitive mind seeks stimulation. Thankfully, there is nothing better than Money Heist. Also known as La Casa de Papel,…

1991 was the year we were first introduced to the cultural behemoth that was Rugrats, a series that was loved by children and adults alike and would go on to inspire an impressive range of merchandise from video games to comic books.  To…

Living through the Covid-19 pandemic is impossible to compare to any prior experience. Early on, it felt there were attempts to do so to lessen the fear associated with the unknown. Then as our needs to social distance and quarantine became…

Character arcs are very important within a narrative. Characters start in one place and the best of them go through a metamorphosis of growth throughout the length of the story. Often the best growth is when a character becomes redeemed.…