Today, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events launches on Netflix worldwide. With a peak into the series (binge watched all eight episodes thanks to the lovely people at Netflix while eating pizza and refusing to get out of bed), … Continue reading First Look: A Series of Unfortunate Events
●●●●○ Netflix’s most recent original series is a 10 part biopic of Queen Elizabeth II, focusing more specifically on her ascendance to the throne and her early years as ruler. The pacing of The Crown is deliberately slow – Her … Continue reading The Crown- review
●●●●○ Take the plot of any movie. Add the words “in space” to the end. Pitch the result as a new take on an old idea. It’s an ancient method. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it produces gold. … Continue reading The Expanse- review
Ever wanted to catch an episode of Orange is New Black on the Luas but couldn’t because of your data plan? Well rejoice, because Netflix have announced that you will be able to download films and TV shows for offline … Continue reading Netflix Launches Offline Viewing
Grab Somebody Spooky Tell Them Hey! It’s Halloween. Maybe you’re looking to cuddle up close with that special pumpkin. Or maybe you’re wondering why you would bother going out when you can get cosy and binge watch some top quality … Continue reading Jumble: Netflix Picks Vol 2- Spooky Netflix Picks
Shows: BoJack Horseman. When college work is looming, sometimes all you need is a sociopathic horse to tell you how hilariously terrible everything is. Conall Monaghan Lovesick (AKA: it’s infinitely better former title Scrotal Recall). This British sitcom plays on … Continue reading Netflix Picks Vol. 1: How to Procrastinate Your First Term At College
○○○○○ Like Roger Ebert in his review of The Human Centipede, I find myself unable to award E4’s Stage School a star rating. It’s not just because such a system is “unsuited” to this show. This show is so goddam … Continue reading Stage School- review
●●●●● Last April the inevitable happened. The two most unrelenting movements in pop culture at present, The Golden Age of Television and The Golden Age of Superhero Adaptations, joined forces to bring us Daredevil. Daredevil was the first of four … Continue reading Jessica Jones – Review
●●●●○ Beasts of No Nation follows Agu (Abraham Attah), a young troublemaker living in a “buffer zone” in an unnamed West-African nation, seemingly untouched by the civil war that rages around it. Agu’s care-free existence for the first fifteen minutes … Continue reading Beasts of No Nation – Review
●●●●○ Netflix has become the embodiment of the huge changes in television over the past five years. Across the industry we’ve seen increased quality, the rise of blockbuster series like Game of Thrones and the erasure of the line between … Continue reading Narcos – Review
Meadhbh McGrath speaks to Mad Men’s resident scoundrel, John Slattery as he bids goodbye to his 1960s counterpart, Roger Sterling.
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The stellar cast gives gravitas to the characters and their seemingly trivial individual situations and rescues the series from descending into melodrama with regards to the grittier aspects of the plot. (●●●○○) Continue reading Bloodline – review