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  • GOD, VOD, Netflix and Chill. Lucifer rises again…

    Though there are notable exceptions over the decades the general rule of thumb in TV-land is that once a series is cancelled, it stays cancelled. Fan-power has been known to save a handful of shows, but networks and executives tend to look at whether a show is profitable or...
  • From ‘Fargo’ to ‘Cargo’, Freeman goes walkabout…

    Andy (Martin Freeman), his wife Kay (Susie Porter) and their infant daughter Rosie drift down the Murray River in Southern Australia in a small houseboat – keeping well away from the banks and the dangers that the barren wastelands on each side offer. The world has gone to hell,...
  • Hit and Swiss: Lost in Space’s Robinsons get revamped…

    As part of an exodus to another star-system, the Jupiter 2 is a shuttle that abandons a space-station hub but finds itself separated from the other shuttles and one of the few to survive crash-landing on a unclassified, unexplored planet below.  The Jupiter 2’s crew are the Robinsons –...
  • Cloverfield: Event (Horizon) TV gets Super-Bowled over…

    High above the Earth a space-station valiantly tries to get its energy-source and particle beam working, hoping that it will put an end to the geo-political tensions on the planet below. Time after time, those efforts fail and the crew, still in space after two years of what was...
  • Claw & Order: Netflix’s latest: ‘Bright’ Lights, Bit Iffy…..

    In an alternative 2017 the modern world has many of our tried and tested problems – but with a twist. Over the last millennia, the magic world of Orcs, faeries, trolls and elves has become part of the social strata. Elves tend to be the high-flying successes at business,...
  • Punisher

    View to a Skull: ‘Punisher’ proves rewarding…

    Frank Castle feels he has completed ‘dealing’ with the people responsible for the death of his family and has ‘retired’ to try and leave a so-called normal life. However the ghosts of the past, real or imagined,  won’t leave him alone –  and he’s about to find out that...
  • Take ‘Note’: Netflix’s deadly reboot has culture-clash….

    Light Turner hasn’t had it easy… he’s a bright kid – so much so he ends up doing others’ homework for a fee – but never seems to be able to find his own place in the day to day world. Essentially a loner, he resents that his mother’s...
  • Defenders

    Defend & Chill: Netflix cooks up cool Hell’s Kitchen heat…

    Danny Rand (Finn Jones) and Colleen Wing’s (Jessica Henwick) efforts to track down members of ‘The Hand’ in the Far East prove unsuccessful when their quarry is killed by an assassin. His dying breath warns them that the occult group has some serious plans for New York. Back in...
  • Millarworld

    It’s ‘Millar Time and Chill’ for Netflix…

    Mark Millar is a comics-creator who has never been backwards at coming forward – well known for his high jinx and even higher hyperbole, every project he becomes involved with exits the starting-gates with a big flourish and vast amounts of publicity. The writer behind Marvel‘s Old Man Logan...
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