Read our review of I May Destroy You here. Trigger warning: sexual assault and rape. Considering there has been very little to do during lockdown, other than attack our own hair with kitchen scissors and consume a potentially dangerous amount of crisps while lying on the sofa, it would be hard for you to have […]Read More
Why not check out yesterday’s Part One if you haven’t already? The current age of British animation After the depressingly corporate demise of the golden age, the UK animation industry veered away heavily from series for adults. Animation studios today tend to focus more on adverts and children’s series when it comes to TV, but […]Read More
The adult animated sitcom is an iconic staple of US television. Genre giants – The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, etc – have left a lasting mark on popular culture and continue to inspire new animated TV series’ to this day. So, where is the British equivalent? For all the South Parks and Family […]Read More
The Netflix mini-series 'Unorthodox' is about more than just religion. It's about discovering your identity and living life by your own rules.Read More
Read our review of Coel’s I May Destroy You here. Michaela Coel’s name has been in circulation quite a bit over the past few weeks following the mammoth success of her new series I May Destroy You. As the writer, producer, director and lead actor in the piece, Coel’s twelve-episode series depicts the fallout and […]Read More
What We Do In The Shadows, based on a film of the same name in 2014, is a mockumentary series focusing on what vampires get up to in their spare time from the creative minds of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, of ‘Flight of the Conchords’ fame. Focusing on a group of vampires in Wellington, […]Read More
Animation producers have in the past week acted to make sure that white actors do not voice non-white characters, a move long overdue by an art form saturated with racist tropes.Read More
During the COVID-19 lockdown we all did our best to stay safe and stay sane, despite being trapped in the confines of our homes. A significant part of that, for me, was spending hours and hours binge-watching TV. This was the perfect time to settle down and watch those ’classic’ shows that I’ve been wanting […]Read More
A staple of our TV screens for the last 20 years, Louis Theroux provides an exclusive talk on his new autobiography 'Gotta Get Theroux This'Read More
Starting out in the mid-90s and running over ten seasons, twenty years later Friends is still the theme of countless pub quizzes and the source of inspirational quotes printed on cheap Primark t-shirts. Friends fans have watched Ross pine for Rachel for almost two seasons, celebrated their first kiss, and had debates about whether they […]Read More
This May the fifth and final season of the Netflix reboot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power aired. Throughout these five seasons, the show has grown in popularity and is now well-loved by people of all ages. The show retains the craziness of the 80s version but adds dimension to the characters and emotional complexity. There is one key difference from the 80s version and that is the LGBTQ+ representation which is present from season one.Read More
A look at how the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has affected reality TV scheduling.Read More
In the past few years, book to screen adaptations have been all the rage. The BBC’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People earlier this year seriously raised the bar, dominationg social media and group chats everywhere. There’s even an Instagram account for Connell’s chain. However, this is not the only book to series adaptation that’s […]Read More
Rev, written by and starring Tom Hollander (Bohemian Rhapsody, Gosford Park), turns the tender age of ten this year, so it seems an appropriate time to give the critically adored but under-seen gem a reappraisal. Focusing on down-on-his-luck vicar Adam Smallbone, who has moved from sleepy Suffolk to a struggling clergy in Hackney, and a […]Read More
It’s impossible to ignore the growing number of people working in film and television who have reported unwanted sexual advances from other industry figures. Recent events such as the sentencing of Harvey Weinstein have brought up questions about how this could have happened so prolifically, in what seems to be an almost universal experience for […]Read More
