I groaned when I first read the online headline speculating that Harry Potter may be getting a television reboot but was this reaction genuine concern or instant snobbery? The article, was in fact, referring to […]
Leaving Neverland: It’s Time to Leave MJ’s Music in the Past
Amidst the seemingly endless debate sparked by the four hour behemoth that is HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, One question in particular has been plaguing the nation. Can we keep listening to Michael Jackson’s music? Should […]
Game of Thrones: Has the ‘Hype Train’ Come to a Halt?
No. No, it hasn’t. However, that doesn’t mean that Season 7 has started off exactly as some would have hoped. Season 7 marks the show’s twilight hours; it is finally steering towards an end. The […]
The return of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is back. Arguably the TV event of 2016 so far, April 24th’s hotly anticipated The Red Woman saw the return of the Starks and Lannisters, in an episode that fans hoped would […]
Vinyl: It’s only rock & roll
When it was announced that HBO would be bringing Vinyl – the brainchild of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese – to our screens this February, the blogosphere went into meltdown. Vinyl tells the story of […]
‘Looking’ for love in San Francisco
Looking throws itself into your face and shrugs off your surprise. Created by Michael Lannan, Looking, is the story of a trio of gay friends living in San Francisco, and their pursuit of sex, love, […]
TV | Made-up spoilers for Game of Thrones season four
**WARNING contains fake spoilers for Game of Thrones season 4 and possibly real spoilers for Game of Thrones seasons 1-3. But to be honest, if you’ve made this this far without knowing the spoilers for […]
Books | How should a person be?
“We live in an age of some really great blow-job artists. Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was tops for the novel” In How Should a Person Be? memoir, fiction […]
TV | True Detective – Part of the McConaughey 'McConnaissance'
True Detective, HBO’s latest big budget show, always ran the risk of simply rehashing the typical cop drama storyline. A complicated murder and mismatched partners forced to work together is a road well-trodden, but True […]
TV | Girls
When Girls emerged two years ago, it’s fair to say it courted its fair share of controversy. Perhaps most shocking was the decision to seemingly exclude anyone with a Y chromosome from attaching themselves to […]
TV | Hello Ladies
This sitcom and its main character have one thing in common; no one wants to keep seeing them each week. Stephen Merchant’s first solo endeavour has just launched on HBO but Hello Ladies seems to […]
What's On: Girls
Already being compared to Sex and the City, Girls is the hottest new feminine comedy out there; but can it really be compared to SATC? We get a boy and a girl’s point of […]