●●●○○ Stormy seas heralded the opening shots of this week’s Poldark, as a failed harvest and a hard winter began to take its toll on the peasants of Cornwall. Some incredibly cumbersome dialogue and unwieldy exposition from Ross and Unidentified … Continue reading Keeping up with Poldark: series 3, episode 4
●●●●○ We’re a third of the way through the series; Ross is off being melodramatic in France while the rest of the Poldark crew get on with the real work of barn raising, beach running and bread making back … Continue reading Keeping Up with Poldark: Series 3 Episode 3 – Review
Trouble is brewing off the coast of Cornwall despite Ross Poldark’s best efforts to play the respectable country squire. Warning: this review contains spoilers! Ross Poldark has always had a penchant for trouble. From indulging in riots and … Continue reading Keeping up with Poldark: What’s happening in episode 2?
●○○○○ Full series now available on Sky Go and NowTV Apparently Julia Stiles is still in showbiz! At least for now, which is the only thing worth noting about the first episode of Riviera, Sky’s latest drama about death … Continue reading First Impressions: The Filthy Rich in Sky TV’s Riviera
Sense8: bold, barefaced, contemporary sci-fi with eight leads, who suddenly find themselves with the ability to hop in and out of each other’s lives and minds at will. What else could bring together an Icelandic DJ, a Chicago police officer, … Continue reading The travesty of Sense8’s cancellation
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It’s all kicking off down in eighteenth-century Cornwall as historical fan favourite Poldark returns.
Warning: this review contains spoilers!
Netflix: we’re all addicted, right? Here at Tn2 we can’t go a day without tuning into the streaming mammoth for at least an hour (or like 23). We’re consummate professionals here in the office so to aid your next Netflix binge … Continue reading Tn2’s Netflix Picks: June ☀️
Sky Atlantic Airing Weekly: Tuesday 9pm ⚈⚈⚈⚈⚈ It is happening again. Or is it? After twenty-six years of waiting and wondering, Twin Peaks is back. With all the media fanfare, teasers and online speculation, Peaksmania is at a fever pitch, … Continue reading Back Once Again – Twin Peaks: The Return
Drug culture, Balls Deep, and Ellen Page: life according to Vice magazine’s venture into television. It was Monday February 29th, 2016. Vice Media teamed up with shareholders A&E Network and Roger’s Media to launch not one but two Viceland-branded … Continue reading What the Hell is Viceland?
Mary Hartnett argues that Claire Dane’s character is restoring faith in female leads. Homeland is an American crime thriller television series, which came to my attention through the power of my Netflix subscription. As a latecomer to the series, … Continue reading The Powerful Portrayal of Homeland’s Carrie Mathison
●●○○○ Since the huge success of the suspenseful and sexy Vampire Diaries and Twilight sagas, new series Riverdale purposefully uses similar tropes that are guaranteed to be a win among teens. It’s a quick fix. However – with its lack … Continue reading Riverdale – review
“I believe that one way of changing people’s perceptions and views is by influencing what they watch and see in the media.” Mary Hartnett talks to Trinity Film Studies graduate Sarah Lennon Galavan about the realities of working in the … Continue reading Small Screen Sirens: Behind the Lens with Sarah Lennon Galavan