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  • Noir and Then: Joy’s stylish ‘Reminiscence’ recalls superior fare…

    It’s the near future, after the water-levels rose and sunk part of Miami and the border wars increased the difference between the haves and have-nots. Private eye Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and Watts (Thandiwe Newton) make the best living they can, using technology that enables people to travel through...
  • No Lovecraft Country for O̶l̶d̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶ HBO…

    Despite the huge critical acclaim, relevancy and multiple award nominations for its ground-breaking first season, word comes via industry site Deadline that HBO has surprisingly decided against a second season of Lovecraft Country. Though no scripts had been written for the second run, a massive and comprehensive ‘series bible’...
  • The Nevers: This much is True – Amalia is the New Black….

    Stripe, a weathered, cynical veteran of war, crawls through a scene of carnage and rubble – she is part of a small force sent to try and locate and free one of the alien race known as the Galanthi, but even reaching the relative safety of an old bunker...
  • The Nevers stand, divided: And thereby hangs a cautionary tale…

    Despite Mundi’s demands of a fair trial and the possibility that it might inflame London further, Lord Mullen and the powers-that-be have already decided to make a public event out of killing the captured Maladie and she is to be hanged in one of the town squares.  Penance sees...
  • The Nevers’ Undertaking and Mundi Mourning Quarterbacking…

    In the wake of Mary’s murder, there’s enough guilt and recrimination to go around. It’s clear that opposing forces are about to give no quarter – fighting for what they believe in at whatever cost. But as Mundi determines to bring the killer to justice and Lord Massen makes...
  • The Sinner and the Song: The ‘Nevers’ heats up the ‘Ignition’…

    There are fateful encounters between unexpected parties as True and Prudence talk with Bonfire Annie… and Frank Mundi finds himself once more in the company of Hugo Swann. As various agendas play out behind closed doors, the fate of the ‘Touched’ could go in any number of ways. If...
  • Nevers, have I Evers? Whedon makes a case for Corset and Effect…

    It’s 1896… and something is in the air, especially over London. Though people will later argue over what they saw, didn’t see or felt, it seems to be the origin point for a select minority, mostly women, to find that they have suddenly acquired strange new abilities. Three years...
  • The Cast of Us: HBO’s drama has familiar genre faces…

    HBO‘s The Last of Us (an adaptation of the PS4 game set twenty years after an infection has ravaged humanity and left disparate groups trying to survive the infected and each other) seems to be progressing nicely with concrete decisions made about the casting. Two familiar genre names will...
  • V for Victoriana: ‘The Nevers’ trailer arrives ahead of April debut…

    The Nevers had had quite a bit of attention in recent months. The long-anticipated series from Joss Whedon has been in various stages of production and completion since first announced back in 2018 and at the end of last year came the news that Whedon would be stepping away...
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