Originally published in print November 2020. Illustration by Emily Thomas. Over lockdown I decided to revisit a programme from my teenage years. The CW series Reign, with its intense drama and lavish costumes, was the tonic I needed during the … Continue reading Historical Accuracy in Period Dramas
Originally published in print November 2020. It seemed like, for all of last summer, you couldn’t move anywhere on YouTube without being greeted by an ad for Cobra Kai. It felt inescapable, and so I wrote it off in annoyance. … Continue reading Cobra Kai’s Back Baby!
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m assuming most of us use TV shows as an escape from our own reality. They serve as a sweet moment of reprieve from the stress of daily life, as we immerse ourselves in someone … Continue reading The Show Must Go On How television studios are adapting to Covid and finding ways to continue filming in this new climate.
Illustration by Andrés Murillo. Originally published in print September 2020. If an unhealthy amount of daytime television during lockdown has taught me anything, it’s that all reality TV shows mainly centre around two things: love and career success. These qualities … Continue reading Reality (?) TV
Originally published in print September 2020. Spoilers ahead for season two of Breaking Bad. A car crash is a great cliff-hanger for your season finale. Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, The Vampire Diaries, and a million other shows have used this trope … Continue reading Breaking Bad and Car Crash TV
Originally published in print September 2020. As we enter the dawn of a new era of Zoom lectures and remote learning, I can’t help but feel sorry for the scores of students, like myself, who will miss out on many … Continue reading Back to School (on Screen): A College TV Watchlist
When Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) begins a new job as an au pair at Bly Manor, she knows that it won’t be easy looking after orphaned twins Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelie Bea Smith). Thankfully, she’s not the … Continue reading The Haunting of Bly Manor // Review
As a lover of almost all things superhero (although Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015) is vacuous tedium), when The Boys (Eric Kripke, 2019- ) came out last year, I was thrilled, mesmerised and horrified, bingeing the whole thing in two days. … Continue reading The Boys Season Two // Review
It is the Love Island of autumn, the Antiques Roadshow for millennials, the only thing keeping the United Kingdom united – it is the Great British Bake Off. The time has come, once again, for me to become unhealthily emotionally … Continue reading Great British Bake Off 2020: Episode One // Review I did not expect to see Paul Hollywood stabbing Marie Antionette, but it’s 2020 so why not?
●●●●○ I purposefully did not revisit Dennis Kelly’s cult-thriller Channel 4 series, Utopia (2013-2014), before watching Gillian Flynn’s Prime Video remake, Utopia (2020), as I was a fan of Kelly’s series as a teen and didn’t want to affect my … Continue reading Utopia (U.S) Season One // REVIEW
Originally published in the Summer Issue 2020. When was the last time you did something truly selfless? Even if you’re sacrificing something for another person, you could still be motivated by wanting them to like you, or for them to … Continue reading Groundhog Day – The Trope That Comes Up Again and Again and Again
Originally published in the Summer Issue 2020. With all of the Normal People hype around the country and beyond in recent weeks, dropping the fact that I was ‘technically’ in the show into conversations has been a fun exercise … Continue reading Extra! Extra! Read All About It: What I Learned From My Experience as a TV Background Actor TV editor Ciara Connolly shares her experience as a first-time TV extra on the hit show Normal People