The youth are starting to change
Misfits has been around for two seasons already but I only just got on board thanks to a recommendation from Alana. It seems to follow the same premise as Heroes/X-Men: a bunch of people all over the world (or at least London anyway) gain special powers after being struck by a storm. But unlike Heroes … Read more
Sesame Street Appeals to TV Junkies
For some reason Sesame Street has this backlog of television show “parodies.” Everyone knows they often have television “star” guests but this is way more fun!
Pop Culture Princess
Beyond Star Wars, there’s a reason why you may have seen a lot of CARRIE FISHER interviews. She isn’t just the Princess of Alderaan she is a Princess of pop culture, immersed in the world of media, from television shows and movies to books and theatre. Perhaps the reason for her transition from epic screen … Read more
It’s a Mad Ad World
Mad Men is a period piece television series set in the 1960s in an advertising firm in New York City. The beauty of this series, other than its accurate exploration of feminism, sexisim, homophobia and the expectations placed on men to succeed, is the way its characters are challenged to come up with inventive ways … Read more
That’s sass and fire
This Sunday I’m going with some nerds friends to see Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse and all things clever). He’s doing some talk and will “discuss the creative ways in which he has played out… themes [of stong woman characters, outsider heroes and the uses and abuses of power] in a variety … Read more
Gleeful
Taking into account the fact that Gossip Girl has become INCREDIBLY boring this season (3), it is nice to know I can get my teen-to-adulthood drama fix via the ever-loved Glee. Though song-in-heart style singing generally fails to pierce my barren and stale heart, Glee borrows what Buffy and (unfortunately) Will and Grace and Drew … Read more
What’s Goss?
Gossip Girl is not, as you might predict from the title, a “chick flick” tv series. It’s similar to The OC in that it’s about wealthy upper class privileged teenagers with problems, and in that both series were/are created by Josh Schwartz. I watched The OC fairly avidly but I was never a big fan. … Read more
True Blood Doesn’t Bite, Doesn’t Suck
When Clare drove away from her funeral home, bawling her eyes out to Sia’s Breathe Me as a montage of every character’s death revealed “Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends” in the final episode of Six Feet Under, you probably weren’t thinking “Wow, I wonder what Alan Ball (creator/writer) will make us feel depressed about next?” Well … Read more
A New World of Vigilantes
Illustration by Mark Eastwood. More of his works can be viewed here. Many years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre people still wonder exactly what a “terrorist” is and what might motivate them to kamikaze-style destroy two buildings filled with people.Horrible war-related murders happen every day and we don’t always know the … Read more
What is your childhood trauma?
One TV series I’ve really become addicted to this year is Skins.I remember over a year ago when I was in London I saw all these posters for it and there was this general buzz about it being controversial (which always hightens my interest). And it is pretty controversial, actually! All these attractive 17-year-olds are … Read more
