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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and lessons in passivity

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Movie anthologies present a unique challenge in storytelling. It is generally expected in character driven narratives that a protagonist will face a series of challenges that forces them to learn and change and… Continue reading →

Netflix’s The Punisher and Masculinity (VIDEO)

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  Transcript: Last night I finished Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix. It impressed me. It was probably the best Marvel Netflix show since Jessica Jones. It is flawed, but in its own ways.… Continue reading →

Stranger Things 2 Re-View

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Most of the problems with Stranger Things can be summarised by the title of its second season. “Stranger Things 2”. That’s how you label a film, not a television season. The creators of… Continue reading →

Give Star Trek: Discovery a chance (VIDEO)

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  Transcript: Over the last few days I’ve seen a few negative reactions by Star Trek fans to the first three episodes of Discovery. I’ve liked my experience of the show so far… Continue reading →

The Dreaded Backlog: Quantum Break

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Quantum Break is several sets of good ideas, all competently executed, then all thrown together. A lot of the experience is a simple third person cover shooting and story-heavy cinematic driven game, comparable… Continue reading →

What Netflix can learn from The Crown

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It is starting to feel a lot like the end of the golden era of Netflix’s original content. Whilst a lot of it is still quality work the sheen is starting to dull… Continue reading →

For how long should you give a bad TV show a chance?

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So, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has got a lot better hasn’t it? Remember a few years ago when everyone on the Internet seemed hyped to received a weekly Marvel adventure? And then remember the… Continue reading →

Is TV becoming too ‘arc heavy’?

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Do you remember how TV used to be? You could just sit down and watch a show without having any prior relationship with the property. Everything was simple and easy to understand. Admittedly… Continue reading →

What Makes A Good TV Pilot: Revisited

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  Earlier this week, I laid out what I believed were the five objectives that a television pilot should do in order to lay out to it’s audience what it is and what… Continue reading →

Netflix: The Idiot’s Lantern

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Whilst streaming video has been available in the UK for some time in the guise of catch-up TV services and tentative steps into the market by LoveFilm, none of them really had that… Continue reading →