Discovery’s ‘Scavengers’ Assemble: Burnham goes off-Book (again)…
The Discovery receives a message from Book’s ship, though it’s his cat Grudge that appears to be the only occupant. It appears Book had found the location of a Federation … Read More
Category: STREAMING REVIEW
Mando-Lore: Disney+ series starts to connect the franchise dots…
Mando is making good on his world and delivering the Frog Lady to her destination, but though the information they give about fellow Mandalorians is honest, it inevitably leads to … Read More
Oded on Arrival… Discovery’s New Worlds Order looks promising…
Discovery and its crew finally reach the secret Federation enclave and are met with both scenes of wonder at how far technology has progressed and an icy pragmatism from the … Read More
Original Symb: Star Trek Discovery’s looks for a view to a Trill…
Adira may have the information needed to locate what is left of the Federation but it appears her Trill memories from previous hosts are blocked. Realising they don’t have the … Read More
Best Laid Plans: The Mandalorian’s ‘Passenger’ hatches some problems…
Mando is still pursuing details of where he might find his comrades in an effort to locate the baby’s homeworld and he accepts the job of helping a ‘Frog Lady’ … Read More
Friends reunited. But Trek’s Discovery finds there’s no place like home…
The Discovery and Michael are reunited, though for the crew its been hours and for Michael almost a year. Comparing notes and their known unknowns, the decision is made to … Read More
Marshal Lore: ‘Mandalorian’ has a hard day’s knight on Tatooine…
If ‘Mando’ is going to be able to get his young companion back to his own kind, he realises he’ll need help. Word comes of another Mandalorian soldier in the … Read More
Star Trek – Discovery is ‘Far from Home’ but back on course..?
The Discovery and Michael Burnham have been separated as they are buffeted by the forces of the wormhole. There’s no way to know the time or distance that divides them, … Read More
Go West! Go Vote! Restaging ‘West Wing’ proves nostalgic, timely…
If all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, then the best productions are the ones that make you forget the stage exists at all … Read More
Star Trek: Discovery’s past is prologue for Season 3 shift…
After saving the galaxy from a massive, temporal AI threat, an armoured Michael Burnham and the Discovery have been propelled through a wormhole and flung far into the future. Still … Read More
Ladled ‘Antebellum’: Twisty tale proves ‘Roots’ of all evils?
In a Civil-War era landscaped plantation, slaves are casually abused and even killed by their ‘owners’ and despite every part of the brutalised Eden (Janelle Monáe) wanting to rebel she … Read More
Metropolis Now? HBO-Max’s parent-trap ‘Wolves’ runs with Blades…
On a distant, seemingly barren planet named Keplar-22b, a ship carrying two AIs and a selection of embryos crashes down and begins a new chapter in the battle for humanity’s … Read More
Bill & Ted: Partly Excellent, Mostly Harmless…
It’s Sam Dimas, California 2020 and William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Keanu Reeves) leave couple-of-couples therapy with the princess wives only to be informed that the … Read More
Size Matters: Is Quibi’s ‘Fugitive’ finger-food a brunch or buffet?
The very idea of bite-size dramas speaks to the modern malaise of attention-defecit disorder, the presumption that a viewer’s attention will wander after little more than the length of an … Read More
OVERVIEW: Judging HBO’s Perry Mason – That was then, this is noir…
Los Angeles, 1932: When a child is stolen and a ransom demand at the iconic Angels Flight goes horribly wrong, the police and the public demand swift and extreme justice … Read More