I’ve not read William Gibson’s source novel, but after seeing the first two episodes I can safely say that The Peripheral on Amazon Prime looks right up my street. I’ll certainly give them the first season to see if the mix of high technology, alternative time lines and rich, powerful people from the future with… Continue reading The Peripheral
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A new double act?
If only Peter Falk was still around to play his part in “I HEAR THE BLUES A-KILLIN’ (or: Frasier Meets Columbo)”: I HEAR THE BLUES A-KILLIN’ (or: Frasier Meets Columbo) part 1 of 4 pic.twitter.com/4C8zrB1CYB — Joe Chouinard (@joechoui) October 18, 2022 How can they be planning to do more episodes of Frasier without Niles… Continue reading A new double act?
Frasier returns
In a perfect world, this would be the Frasier sequel coming to Paramount+ for at least one season. I’d like to imagine the returning show will live up to the reputation it earned back in the day when I used to enjoy it on Friday nights on Channel 4. The original show got lucky to… Continue reading Frasier returns
A professional
Towards the end of the discussion at MetaFilter of the announcement about Bruce Willis, a delightful reminder of just how much fun Moonlighting was, back at its’ peak. As Mchelly put it: the “least-Bruce Willis-ever Moonlighting clip” Bruce Willis may not have been a dancer by trade, but he was a professional who got the… Continue reading A professional
Counterparts
Having subscribed to STARZPLAY so I could watch Station Eleven – a very good decision, as it turned out – I’ve decided to compensate for the impending gap in my viewing schedule once Station Eleven ends by catching up with a slightly older show streaming via the same service, Counterpart. As I hoped would happen… Continue reading Counterparts
Station Eleven
Given the largely positive reviews that Station Eleven got, regular readers may not be surprised to learn that I ended up shelling out for a STARZPLAY subscription with the plan of watching the ten episodes then deciding whether to let my subscription roll over for another month. There’s other content I’d been meaning to watch1… Continue reading Station Eleven
This Is Going To Hurt
Watching the first episode of This Is Going To Hurt this evening, I was struck by the resemblance to a show called Cardiac Arrest,1 back when Helen Baxendale was a new face and Jed Mercurio was still writing under the pen-name of John MacUre. Ben Whishaw is very good in the new show and it… Continue reading This Is Going To Hurt
Lasso in NYRB
The New York Review of Books writes about the writing in Ted Lasso, and an Apple marketing executive checks off one more objective reached as Apple TV+ becomes strives to become known as the streaming age’s HBO. Perhaps the greatest literary move of Season 2 is the redemption (that is, re-seeing) of Rick Astley’s 1987… Continue reading Lasso in NYRB
Star Trek: Coda
When I dipped a toe in the waters of the Star Trek tie-in towards the end of last year1 I had no idea that the Trek Litverse was just about to wind itself up: Following the conclusion of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on television, the success of the series’ continuation in book form, known… Continue reading Star Trek: Coda
For 2022
On the same principle that lots of us rewatched Soderbergh’s Contagion in the early days of the first lockdown1, HBO stands to do well with an adaptation of Station Eleven: The show, based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 international bestseller, follows the survivors of a flu pandemic. Despite the desperate realities of the world… Continue reading For 2022