Super Snappy Speed Reviews – TV Edition (Vol. 2)
I’ve picked 5 TV shows entirely at random from my DVD rack/Now TV/Lovefilm/etc. accounts and reviewed them all in no more than four or five sentences.
View ArticleReview: Doctor Who, Series 11
Jodie Whittaker's first series as the titular character in the BBC's Doctor Who is finally over. Actually it was over almost two weeks ago but I had to do 6 Six Word Stories for the 6th last Sunday so...
View ArticleReview: The Orville (season 1)
I've heard a lot of folk talking very positively about this show, even claiming it fills a Star Trek void in a way the most recent Star Treks fail to do. High praise indeed. My curiosity was piqued.
View ArticleTV Review: After Hours
SPOILER ALERT Anyone who has not seen the British sitcom After Hours (2015) is hereby advised that this post may contain a few unavoidable spoilers. My wife and I’s Now TV subscription will be coming...
View ArticleReview: Kim’s Convenience (season 1)
SPOILER ALERT Anyone who has not seen season 1 of the CBC TV show, Kim’s Convenience (season 1) is hereby advised that this post may contain a few unavoidable spoilers. Every now and again, you’ll be...
View ArticleTV Review: Death in Paradise (s. 1-2)
It's a great show to sit down and lose yourself in. It's funny, endearing, with enough drama to keep you engrossed without adversely affecting your blood pressure.
View ArticleTV Review: Doc Martin (Series 9)
The last episode of the last ever series of Doc Martin aired on Wednesday past. And so it seems only fitting that I do a little review of the final series of a show which has been with us now for...
View ArticleSuper Snappy Speed Reviews: TV Edition (Vol. 3)
I've selected a random assortment of TV programs and reviewed them all in just a few short sentences.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Doctor Who (Series 11) Review
Jodie Whittaker's first series as the titular character in the BBC's Doctor Who is finally over. Actually it was over almost two weeks ago but I had to do 6 Six Word Stories for the 6th last Sunday so...
View ArticleTV Review: Star Trek: Picard, 'Remembrance'
A very encouraging beginning to a show which I was anticipating with both hope and fear... It was the best offering I've seen from the Star Trek franchise in a long, long time.
View ArticleStar Trek: Enterprise (TV Review)
After a little gentle coaxing from the wife and fifteen years late for the party, I decided to give Star Trek: Enterprise a second chance.
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Maigret (TV Review)
When I heard that Rowan Atkinson was going to be starring as the main character in ITV's television adaptation of Georges Simenon's detective novel Maigret Sets a Trap, my curiosity got the better of me.
View ArticleTV Review: Another Life
My wife and I were very much in the market for another space opera. And so we did the only thing we could: dipped our hand into the televisual basket of snakes that is Netflix, only to get bitten by...
View ArticleTV Review: Life on Mars
DCI Sam Tyler (John Simm) is a British police officer who gets hit by a car in 2006 and wakes up in 1973. The rest of the series catalogues his continual clashes with his new colleagues as he tries to...
View ArticleTV Review: Stranger Things
If you're thinking this sounds like a bit of a kitchen sink show, you're absolutely right. The Duffer brothers who created the show seem to have painstakingly pieced together every single last...
View ArticleTV Review: Norsemen
A bizarre little show, undeniably low-brow in some respects and with off-beat humour that only really managed to tickle me slightly. It took a little while to get started, but once it finally did get...
View ArticleSuper Snappy Speed Reviews: Cbeebies Edition
As ever these reviews reflect nothing more than my own personal opinions and impressions, squished, squeezed and diminished into just a few short sentences. The shows I have selected have nothing in...
View ArticleSuper Snappy Speed Reviews – TV Edition (Vol. 2)
I’ve picked 5 TV shows entirely at random from my DVD rack/Now TV/Lovefilm/etc. accounts and reviewed them all in no more than four or five sentences.
View ArticleReview: Doctor Who, Series 11
Jodie Whittaker's first series as the titular character in the BBC's Doctor Who is finally over. Actually it was over almost two weeks ago but I had to do 6 Six Word Stories for the 6th last Sunday so...
View ArticleReview: The Orville (season 1)
I've heard a lot of folk talking very positively about this show, even claiming it fills a Star Trek void in a way the most recent Star Treks fail to do. High praise indeed. My curiosity was piqued.
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