(Usual spoiler: talking about how season 3 starts is kind of a spoiler for how season 2 ends) Meet the Hargreaves: seven 'siblings' who were brought together as babies by an eccentric millionaire who decided their highly unusual births - none of their mothers having been pregnant the day before - signalled something special. And … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 3)
In keeping with the 'niceness' theme from my last post, I'm really glad I tried this little animated series. You might remember Baymax from the movie, Big Hero 6 (2014): a big inflatable robot created to be a health care provider, with the greatest line of calling a cat "Hairy baby!" 🙂 His inventor's brother turns … Continue reading Baymax! (season 1)
Welcome to the television event of the year. Split into two 'volumes', the penultimate season of Stranger Things has been the watercooler tv of late. We're back in Hawkins, with an ever-expanded cast of characters. The youngers are looking so gawky and teenage-y which suits well, given they're starting high school. All is not well: the group … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 4)
As the Disney/Star Wars behemoth rumbles on, this time we're heading back to the midpoint between Episodes 3 and 4: after Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) dispatches the Dark Side-turned Anakin Skywalker, and before a young Luke Skywalker goes looking for a certain Ben Kenobi. We find Obi-Wan/Ben working in a factory on Tatooine, keeping an … Continue reading Obi-Wan Kenobi (season 1)
My rewatch of the excellent Stranger Things continues as I run towards the new episodes. Season 1 both tied up the initial story and left an obvious way to continue. And so, welcome back to Hawkins, Indiana, just in time for Halloween, 1984. It didn't occur to me at the time, but each season revolves … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 2)
As the fourth season of Stranger Things debuts on Netflix, I asked myself if I should plough right in or did I need to refresh my memory a bit on season 3. Then I realised I hadn't ever rewatched a season, so it felt time to go right back to the beginning! We start on … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 1)
Museum gift shop worker, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) has problems. He's rubbish with romance, his boss won't give him a promotion despite his encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Ancient Egyptian, and he has to cuff himself to the bedpost every night to stop some quite extreme sleep-walking. As in, wake up in a different country … Continue reading Moon Knight (season 1)
When a murder occurs in an upper-class New York apartment building, three neighbours meet and discover a shared love of true-crime podcasts. And when they have a real case literally on their doorsteps, why not dramatise their own mystery?! As the three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez) work together to unravel the crime, … Continue reading Only Murders in the Building (season 1)
Back when Star Wars was new and exciting (ahem!), a mysterious, helmeted baddy by the name of Boba Fett went up against the original heroes of the series and met a sticky end. 'True' fans, however (ie not me!), read all the comics and canon/non-canon tales from the saga and already knew that a sarlacc's stomach … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett (season 1)
Tranquillum House is an exclusive and upmarket wellness retreat, run by the mysterious and ethereal Masha (Nicole Kidman with a dodgy Russian accent). Attendance is by invitation only, so when nine highly stressed guests arrive, it's a guessing game as to what might connect a family reeling from suicide, a formerly successful romance novelist, a … Continue reading Nine Perfect Strangers (season 1)
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