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  • Casting HBO’s Watchmen TV Series

    Adaptations of the beloved graphic novel Watchmen are much discussed but rarely put into production. The book is incredibly complex and deep, best suited for the entertainment medium it is currently printed upon and writer Alan Moore has been against adaptation from the very beginning. Terry Gilliam was at...
  • Game of Thrones: Characters Who Should Return as Wights in Season 7

    I’ve just finished my revisiting Game of Thrones season 6 articles, which you can read on the site now, and those things are behemoths. Exploring subtext and recapping narratives over thousands upon thousands of words has sapped away my already strained cognition and yet with Game of Thrones season...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 3: Across the Narrow Sea

    There’s a misconception about Star Trek movies that entered the common parlance many years ago and has since become seen as fact. The soundbite claims that all even-numbered films are good while the odd-numbered instalments are bad. This just isn’t true for Trek but it does ring true –...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 2: The South

    Season six of Game of Thrones proved to be the show’s most eventful to date and in no area more so than the south of Westeros. From the Twins to the Riverlands, from King’s Landing to Dorne, the region was a hotbed of show-shifting events and deaths as characters...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 1: The North

    The phenomenon that is Game of Thrones returns next month for its penultimate season and, just like the last few years, I’ve been watching the previous season in preparation. When watching the show for a second time, away from all the hype and media buzz, it’s a different experience...
  • What Should The Game of Thrones Spin-offs Be?

    With only thirteen episodes left of the worldwide phenomenon that is Game of Thrones it makes sense that HBO continue the series after the core show ends. Rumours have been flying for years now about a possible spin-off to the show but HBO has made the unprecedented move of...
  • My Hopes for the Third and Final Season of The Leftovers

    Spoilers aplenty for the first two seasons of The Leftovers. If you haven’t watched the show, then don’t read on. If that’s the case, then what the hell is wrong with you? Go watch it already, it’s amazing! Acclaimed drama is on TV every single day across multiple networks...
  • Why Sharp Objects could be the next big TV hit

    As the television renaissance continues, several novels which would have one day been snatched up by film companies for adaptation are instead becoming TV miniseries or some even expanded to become a full-blown series. The decline in production of mid-budget films and talent flocking to the silver screen has...
  • TV’s Having An Absolute Blinder

    Westworld, Planet Earth II and Still Game have combined in recent weeks to ensure that I have been thoroughly enjoying my time spent watching TV. Despite the return of many series, that are regular features on my watching list,in the last month or two (NCIS, The Flash etc) I...