Television

But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. - Henry V, William Shakespeare 14 years…

Many people complain that there aren’t enough female superheroes and that the few there are are so ridiculously sexualised that they only exist to pander to the male gaze. Sabrina: The Teenage Witch represents one of those unique moments in…

The Walking Dead comic-book creator Robert Kirkman and his team of producers have gone all the way back in time to before Rick Grimes wakes up from that coma. Before the zombie apocalypse turned America into a free for all and how it…

I was raised on old school horror and like most genre buffs, I have noticed that the quality in modern horrors is, well, not very scary. Partially down to being desensitised from years of heads exploding (thank you Battle Royal 2),…

Veronica Mars was cancelled in 2007 after only three seasons. But those three seasons had launched Kristen Bell to stardom, pre-empted Rian Johnson’s acclaimed high-school noir Brick by a year, and come closer than anyone to physically…

2002 was an interesting year in American television. It was the year that HBO aired the first episode of its new series from Baltimore journalist David Simon and ex-homicide detective Ed Burns. The Wire  would run for 5 seasons with low to…

Much like with The Beatles, there exists a prevailing opinion that it is offensive, wrong and just plain stupid to criticise The Sopranos in any way, shape or form. With all due respect to a show that certainly deserves its due in terms of…

**Contains spoilers for all seasons** What's the saddest thing that can happen to a TV show? Maybe it's the death of a beloved character, or the cancellation of the show before its time? I don't think so, I posit that these things are…

It’s the morning of May 24, 2010. The big finale of what has been easily one of the most divisive television series of all time had aired the night before on American television. You stumble down the stairs at an altogether too early hour…

There’s a wonderful song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (in Jeff Buckley’s words, the ‘Pakistani Elvis’) called 'Yeh Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai'. The song compares the ‘mild intoxication’ of the early stages of being in love to that of being a…