After a first season which detailed the lives of the Baudelaire children from books one to three was met with critical acclaim, Steph Bennett gives an overview of the series’ return to Netflix. With no previous […]
TV Series to Binge to Avoid Revision
Exams are almost here, and since you are probably procrastinating instead of studying, you should use your precious time to discover some binge-worthy TV shows to keep you busy. So here are five great TV […]
Is Britain Talentless?
Arts Editor, Steph Bennett, fails to see the worth in the nation’s favourite talent show. Last Saturday marked the return of Britain’s Got Talent, the talent programme that has become so revered that it not […]
A Queen’s Ransom: gender-pay gap scandal in The Crown
It has been revealed that the star of the Netflix tv series The Crown, Claire Foy, has been paid less than co-star Matt Smith. Amidst all the rising commentary around the gender wage gap, it […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 AKA The season of the female anti hero
Back in 2015 the first season of Jessica Joneswas released to critical acclaim and positive reviews. Part of what made the first season so praised was it’s engaging anti heroine and its use of a […]
Should RuPaul Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
The LGBTQ+ icon, RuPaul, has become the first ever drag queen to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There has since been controversy surrounding the decision to award him a […]
REVIEW: Altered Carbon
This new high-concept science fiction on Netflix takes old tropes and turns them into something fresh and compelling. Altered Carbon is based on the premise that people have their consciousness downloaded onto a disc, which […]
REVIEW: Atlanta Season 2 Episode 1: Alligator Man
Multi-faceted artist Donald Glover’s Emmy and Golden Globe winning series, Atlanta, returned at the beginning of the month and is a series best defined as “hard to define”. In this first episode, we dive straight […]
Why TV is obsessed with the 80s and 90s
There has been a recent trend of television shows being set in the ‘80s and 90’s, including, Freaks and Geeks, Stranger Things and My Mad Fat Diary, to name a few. So why, in 2018, […]
Hybridised TV Shows: Are We Just Recreating New Versions of Old Classics?
Even if the TV world is codified in several specific genres, hybridised television series that intertwine those different types of storylines are arising. Turning on the TV used to mean always seeing the same things. […]
Can You Beat a BBC Drama?
Is Netflix’s increasing focus on original drama set to threaten BBC supremacy? BBC dramas have long been the jewel in the crown of British television and the BBC iPlayer’s recent gift of ‘Box Sets’ has […]
Elizabeth: Our Queen – A Good Kind of Nostalgic.
This week, Channel 5 aired the first in an 8-part series detailing the life of Queen Elizabeth II. The first episode, called ‘Queen in Waiting’ details the Queen’s younger years, ending with the death of […]