Television

  • Geek Out Weakly 23 – Love, Death, and Robots vol. 2

    27/05/2021
    Aadil and Ben get together to talk about volume 2 of the netflix series Love, Death, and Robots. They discuss faves from both series, what they like about anthologies, disappointments, discussion of the main themes and a whole lot else besides. Our theme song is by captiveportalmusic, used under...

  • Geek Out Weakly 9 – 2021 and the Future of Cinema

    28/01/2021
    Ben and Aadil chat about the second round of film delays due to the pandemic, and the move of some studios to forego theatres entirely. We discuss how we think that will affect the already tentpole based industry and where it might go from here. The episode rounds out...

  • Nine Out Of Nine

    08/05/2019
    After an eternally long wait; Season 5 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine arrived on Netflix a few months ago and I’ve since bought Season 6 on Prime which is updating weekly. I absolutely love the first 4 seasons of the show, so to finally have the 5th season available has been...

  • Line of Duty

    01/05/2019
    I’ve just finished watching the first 3 seasons of Line of Duty on Netflix (UK) which feels like an excellent time to take a break and write about it. This may get a bit spoilery later on, so keep an eye out for the warning if you don’t want...

  • The Ten Best Television Episodes of 2017

    19/12/2017
    For the spoiler-conscious beware! I’ve tried to stay vague and avoid spoilers but some small ones might slip through. Tread carefully. It’s been a great year for television, whether streaming or traditional, as new shows made fantastic debuts, modern classics came to an end and classics returned to our...

  • TV’s Having An Absolute Blinder

    16/11/2016
    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...

  • Do You Stick to Genre Shows?

    04/07/2016
    If you are here on Out of Lives, chances are you have a passing interest in nerd culture. Whether that is TV, film, comics, games or otherwise, we do our best to cater to our kind of people. We here all have a passion for what we write about....

  • This Week’s TV Highlights – 15th June 2016

    16/06/2016
    After a week’s hiatus from my weekly highlights, I am happy to come back strong this week with some amazing television. As always, beware, spoilers below! Orphan Black – Season 4, Episode 9 – The Mitigation of Competition Netflix This week is a return to form for everybody’s favourite...

  • To Boldly Go

    13/05/2016
    To Boldly Go… One particular franchise has lived long and prospered on both the big screen and small screen. Star Trek, from the original in 1966 through multiple series, movies, cast, crew, Star Ships and decades, it has continued where so many others have disappeared. Very few franchises have...