Television

After watching the newest (partial) season of Arrested Development I want to preface this review of the second reboot by stating the original show is the greatest sitcom of all time. Its double and triple entendres, the innumerable cultural…

Hugh Grant a few years ago said he hated the movies he appears in. One wonders now though if he’s changed his mind. The British actor, so long synonymous with romcoms, appears to be pulling a McConaughey. Ever since his multiple roles in…

Good news, guys: Netflix’s new apocalyptic drama answers the age-old question: what happens to the rain on Danes? (Answer: it really messes with their brains). Horrific punning aside, if you have been waiting ten years for an updated (and…

In 2008 our silver screens were graced with awkward adolescent comedy The Inbetweeners, which today is a stalwart depiction of what we now affectionately term ‘LAD culture’. Despite the script rendering itself incapable of going a single…

People forget just how limited the scope for sitcoms could be back in the 1980s. Sitcoms nowadays rarely break new ground, regularly outshined by big-budget behemoths like Game of Thrones. TV in the 21st century has embraced its ability to…

Actor John Mahoney has died at age 77. The award-winning actor passed away on Sunday after a brief hospitalisation, though exact details and cause of death are currently unknown. It’s likely that his passing was not a surprise for his loved…

No one could have predicted when the fifth series of popular reality show Celebrity Big Brother began in 2007 it would end up being the centre of an international race row. The series began, like any other, with eleven semi-familiar faces…

It’s 43 AD. In rain-soaked Gaul, a Roman legion of 20,000 men waits to cross the sea to finish what Julius Caesar had failed to do 90 years earlier. Emperor Claudius has ordered General Aulus Plautius to conquer Britannia and its people.…

Come sit here by the (Kindle) fire, child, and let me tell you of a magical time back in the olden days. It was before your Snapchats and your Spotifying, before the words ‘problematic’ and ‘discourse’ and ‘intersectional’ escaped from…

The success and acclaim of AMC's Breaking Bad has been shouted from every rooftop by this stage. While the shows over exposure and hype becoming too much for some, its quality and consistently excellent writing, acting and production values…