Category: TV

When you were a kid, did you love the animated series, ‘Dungeons And Dragons‘: Well, hoo boy, are you in luck. If you don’t know about it already, you’ll find exactly the same level of bonhomie, banter and battling of ginormous, crinkly monsters in The Legend Of Vox Machina. But, be warned – this is…

I’m currently in the middle of a Westworld re-watch and it’s still waaay better than most current TV. If you look at the cast above, you can see a lot of that’s due to the calibre of actor on the show. There are no bad actors on Westworld, no wooden extras that ruin the immersion…

Baby #JessePlemons in #TheGuardian S1E3 Paternity is breaking my heart. How good is this actor? He’s been consistently brilliant for bloody decades.  fucking hell ?

Just watched 200 again and, wow, I wish other SF series had the same laidback brilliance and joyful spirit as SG-1 does. The milestone of reaching the 200th ep is celebrated *perfectly* and it feels like the whole cast and crew are celebrating with us, the audience. It’s brilliantly written, directed and acted from start…

Just watched the season finale of #Murderbot and I am a lachrymose jelly, a sobbing pudding of tears.  arghhhhh  I didn’t think the show would make me cry as much as the books.  I was wrong.  #AllSystemsRed #MarthaWells #ScienceFiction #SanctuaryMoon 

I missed this when it first came out in pre-Covid, pre-genocide 2019. I’ve just watched it and, fucking hell, it’s too spooky. I bet people who watched it in 2019 thought it was far-fetched. Sadly, they were wrong.

So if you’re wondering where 400+ films have disappeared from your #ITVX Premium sub – they no longer carry #Studiocanal. I had to email them find out since they hadn’t bothered to deign subscribers about the change to package with no refund or price level drop. Juggling subs is now way more trouble than piracy.…

This line just made me hugly shnort HOLMES: Ms. Chatworth, it’s obvious to me that you’ve recently stopped wearing a wedding band. Was your marriage a casualty of your affair with Arlen Schrader? And if so, how angry were you when he recused himself from your pants? Elementary #JohnnyLeeMiller #LucyLiu

Just comfort binge re-watching #Elementary and I’ve got to the ep where #NatalieDormer first appears.  She is sooo beautiful, it gives me a deep pain in my heart. I feel like there must be a German word for this, some multi-syllabic wonder? Or in French? It’s def not gonna be in English lol. 

Nearly at the end of Kaos and I thought… … surely Tory cunts won’t whinge about gayness / transness / “diversity” in a show about Greek mythology? Surely they’ll google the story of Caenus before whingeing? So I go to a few review sections and… Nope! Look at this fuckwit bleating on: Gammons are soooo…

Sooo… as it was getting near the end of S11E10 of #Futurama (All The Way Down), I thought… they’re not, are they? And, yep, they did. They copied one of the plot points from @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz #GregEgan’s #PermutationCity which came out in 1994. So, my theory that #ScienceFiction moves from hardcore to mainstream in around thirty…

(I wrote what’s below in response to be very heartfelt post about HACF on Reddit. Obviously, I can’t repost someone else’s words. But it was lovely.) Your post is beautiful. I was born in ’66 so I thankfully grew up with no net, no social media on which to display my kid stupidity and have…

I’ve been watching Star Trek for at least fifty years. From when there was just the one Trek, through The Animated Series, the films and then the various spin-offs. The only ones I’ve given up on were Picard and Lower Decks, not bad considering the sheer amount I’ve watched. I’ve just watched perhaps the best…

TV Writer 1: We need something for the third act… something wild! TV Writer 2: Yeah, classy, real… Umm, alien invasion? Cabal of industrialists finances climate denial? TV Writer 1: No, dammit, more original! TV Writer 2: OOh, ooh, I know – PREGNANT WOMAN’S WATERS BREAK, she is having a BABY! TV Writer 1: Yes!…

Why is Grantchester filmed with that filter that simulates dog vision? Or have I been a HUNGRY, HUNGRY LABRADOR ALL ALONG? omfg, this explains to much. My love of food, my constant need for head pats, the fact I just shat in your shoes.

Why have I seen nothing about Deadloch on Mastodon? I’m halfway through the first ep and I’m hooked. Comedy-murder-mystery-detective shows have such a high likelihood of fucking up one of the elements horrendously. And yet, Deadloch does it all. I’m gripped by the actual crime but also the characters but also it’s hilarious. It’s also…

So, I’ve never watched Broadchurch before and in the first five minutes, there’s already 1 x Doctor Who1 x Who Companion I haven’t even seen David Tennant yet. Apparently, there’s a Torchwood alumni in it too but I dunno if that’s this first series I’m watching. The only other thing that can keep up with…

This is a reply I made on this Reddit: I did a list of my fave ever telly programmes and it took me bloody ages. There was only one thing that could be number one: I feel that because of its ostensibly geeky focus, people sleep on HACF. I get sooo annoyed when I meet…

I’m trying with Picard but it’s annoying me more and more. Now, apparently, medicine isn’t free in the future. *sigh* How is this possible in that energy is free (stars) and matter replication trivial? If you don’t like Roddenberry’s #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism, you should write stories that question its basis not just flout its reality.

Re-watching Babylon5, I realised why Sheridan’s character development seemed familiar to me: he’s James Holden ! The way Bruce Boxleitner does subtle inflections of character after Sheridan is President is ~chef’s kiss~ And very, very Holden once he started believing his own hype.

SO, I bought all 100 eps of #Babylon5 (it was 25 quid, couldn’t resist) and as I’m watching, this actress appears… It’s a very young Constance Zimmer in a bit part, her second role ever, 1994. I thought, what have I seen her in? Turns out – everything. Look at this for a CV, my…

#GwendolineChristie in #Wednesday is ohhhhhh myyyyy… She makes me absolutely melt! #Netflix

… and the song he used that changed my life: Enjoy!

It was bizarrely melodramatic *and* old-fashioned. And, obviously, potentially harmful. Also, like 90% of Picard The Series, it directly contradicts Roddenberry’s template of a future Earth that’s post-illness, post-scarcity, post-money. Like Rafi being poor and being “abandoned”, like *everyone* being an alcoholic or addict of some sort. No spoilers but where was the help for…

#Heartstopper is the show I needed when I was a kid. It would have made me feel so much less isolated and weird. I wouldn’t have felt so unloved and unlovable. Lost tracks at the number of times I’ve cried watching this series. I was like, ‘I’m an old man, I’ll find this cute but…

GIF by fuckinprototype Just watching the Speakeasy episode and it only confirms that this show is THE BEST SUPERHERO SHOW EVER! It has drama, it has sadness but, most of all, it is RIDICULOUS FUN and always makes me giggle. The Flash is too earnest, everyone is too amazing and perfect. Supergirl was kind of in-between…

I need to watch the whole series again with someone who gets it. But most people who are old enough to get it stopped feeling emotions two decades ago. And the people with emotions are too young to really get it.

At the minute, this is a bare list. If I ever have time, I’ll flesh it out with them new-fangled hyperlinks and maybe an under construction gif. Ladies and genitals: BEST TV EVER LIST 2021 EDIT – Charles Smith very kindly converted this to an IMDB list. Thank you, Charlie!

The *only* reason #OllyAlexander shouldn’t be the new #DoctorWho is that he should be too busy playing #MartinGore in a long-overdue #DepecheMode biopic. He’s a great actor AND singer and even looks like young Martin, he’d be #PerfectCasting

I miss Krypton soo much.  It had sharp writing, excellent world-building and some truly class acting. It was also soooo good to see so many black British actors getting proper prime-time TV exposure.  I’m re-watching the end of S2 and… well, very few TV series meet this level of accomplishment. DaVinci’s Demons, iZombie, Travelers, Continuum,…

Watching the first ep of Wallander wherein the grizzled director of Thor works alongside Loki and goes to interview Beast. Nearly as good as when Robin and The Joker were in 10 Things.