• The view from abridged: Star Trek’s Un-Discovery-ed Country…

    With ‘Control’ moving in to get the Sphere and retrieve the data that could lead to cosmic extinction, the battle is on and a war for survival begins. It’s the Discovery and the Enterprise vs. a fleet of Ai ships and no way to summon more help. Burnham and...
  • ‘Winterfell’ is here. Game of Thrones roars back…

    So. Winter is no longer coming, it’s finally here and there’s little doubt the most watched hour of television on Sunday night was the opening salvo in the final season of HBO‘s Game of Thrones. There’s an argument that the much-anticipated return to Westeros could never live up to...
  • Discovery’s ‘Such Sweet Sorrows’ – Hurry up but Weight…

    The decision to abandon and destroy Discovery does not go as well as planned when the Sphere data protects the entire ship and not just it database. It appears the crews of the Discovery and the Enterprise are running out of options but another idea is raised. if the...
  • Twilight Zone: Profiling the Colour of Authority…

    Nina (Sanaa Lathan) and her son Dorian (Damsan Idris) are on a drive, taking Dorian to college. Nina escaped a poor and largely prospect-free childhood environment and made a successful legal career for herself and now wants the same  – and more – opportunities for her son. Dorian will...
  • Shiv and Let Die? Bleeding wonderful ‘Killing Eve’ returns…

    It’s barely a minute after UK intelligence analyst Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) skewered her quarry, the highly-financed, somewhat unbalanced assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer), an act which surprised both of them. Villanelle has fled her Paris apartment and Eve is close behind. Both narrowly avoid a trio of...
  • Twilight Zone: Less scare miles, more cabin pressure…

    The second Twilight Zone episode sees a reinterpretation of one of the classic show’s most memorable episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet – though now upped to 30,000… because, hey, inflation.  The original story saw airline passenger William Shatner becoming convinced that there’s a gremlin on the wing of the...
  • Discovery: ‘Valley of Shadows…’ casts impressive light…

    One of the red signals has appeared over a distant Klingon moon and while no-one knows what it means, Tyler is all too aware of its personal significance to him – it is the planetoid containing the monastery to which his son was spirited away to keep the Klingon...
  • A Peele into Nostalgia: Twilight Zone’s delivery sets modern stage…

    Stand-up comic Samir Wassan (Silicon Valley/The Big Sick‘s Kumail Nanjiani) is an earnest comedian but one whose material is more social-comment than laugh-inducing and he, his successful lawyer girlfriend Reena (Amara Karan) and the comedy club’s owner are beginning to think that Samir’s days on stage may be numbered....
  • Discovery: A Quantum Leap of Solace?

    The ‘Red Angel’ has been captured but there are conflicting ideas about the implications and what should be done next? Burnham wants to see her mother but a compromised Leyland (now under the influence of future AI ‘Control’) is telling everyone who will listen that if the future is...
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