Author Archive
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Rock and Chips
One of the most successful British Sit-Coms, Only Fools and Horses followed the adventures of ‘independent trader’ Derek ‘Del-Boy’ Trotter and his younger brother Rodney as they scrimped and saved in Del’s quest to become a millionaire. The
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The IT Crowd
Working in IT Support myself, I can automatically see a lot of the funny side of jokes and the attacks on the usual stereotypes that occur with IT. It’s also being a slight fan of geek-humour that there’s a lot of the references and hidden slight
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Skins Series Four – Speculation
The hit E4 teenage drama series returns next week, and it’s quite possibly the last of the second generation of characters. So it’s eight episodes of Effy, Cook and Freddie before they end up shutting shop. Unless they are back for a fifth...
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Doctor Who – The End of Time
WARNING SPOILERS. And thus it came to pass that the Doctor shall pass on the reigns to someone new. That he shalt regenerate and some other bible style verse language to create the metaphor. But in terms of this place and time, David Tennant – the
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Two Retrospective
This is the season where Buffy loves and loses her innocence, has to face her true love in battle, meets Spike and Drusilla, ends up a fugitive and basically starts the road to womanhood. Originally, I can recall this being my favourite Buffy seas
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Stargate Universe – Mid Season Critique
Stargate Universe is a curious beast. The latest in the line of Stargate shows, it goes against formula of the previous shows and aims to try and be something different. In the process it creates a curious drama, on the other it can often inf
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Merlin Series Two Review
Riding high off the Doctor Who / Robin Hood Saturday Night fantasy entertainment bandwagon, the latest in the line of these was Merlin, a retelling of the infamous wizard and his early days as the servant to the future legendary King Arthur. As
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FlashForward…The Midseason Opinion
This is going to be exciting. This is the first time I’m going to a show that there’s already been an article on. So here I am, with the previous article on FlashForward copied and pasted below this one in Word as I write. I re-read what I wr
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We Love…Gareth Campesinos!
Not a lot is known about Gareth Campesinos, like his real name for example. Though I personally don’t think I want to know, because it gives him a certain mysterious edge which isn’t really there when you come to think about things. In fact a
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Misfits…So Far.
At the time of writing, four episodes of this have aired. The fifth is likely to be airing in about an hour of this posting. It’s likely to presume that it’s halfway through its run...so is the Skins-meets-No Heroes-meets-something else actually
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