Ah Dany, I’ve missed that impossibly arranged blonde hair and those slightly snotty looks down the nose. Ah Jonny Boy, I’ve missed that big black coat and the permanent sulk. Ah Arya, I’ve missed that sly badass nature and the tricky knife moves. Tyrion and his clever quips. Sansa and her steely poise. You get the picture. Eighteen months was a long time between drinks.
Game of Thrones is almost back. Game of Thrones is almost done. Just six more episodes left and they’re all movie length features, with the first one premiering on 14 April in the USA. That means, as per usual, sometime in the early afternoon of Monday 13 April in the great nation of Aotearoa.
Bohemian Rhapsody is not a particularly good film. It’s a fun and enjoyable film in its own way but as a work of artistic merit it is, gotta admit it, extremely flawed. I mean, poor old Deackie!
Deep in the depths of the kiwi summer, we got another reminder that winter is coming in its most brutal form as Game of Thrones dropped an 'Official Tease' last week.
Of course Black Mirror would end up on Netflix, aye. Because who else could come up with anything as high concept as Bandersnatch other than Charlie Booker and the folks from Black Mirror and who the absolute hell else would possibly endorse broadcasting such a thing as Netflix?
Don't know about youz around Aotearoa, but 2018 and 2019 is best summed up via Game of Thrones or lack of GoT. Personally, there wasn't much progress through 2018 and it was more a case of slow movement, sussing a few things out and a whole lot of meditation.
Look, I get it. The holidays are coming up. Lots of time off work/study and heaps of time spent hanging out with the people you love. That’s great… it’s also overwhelming. You need some time to yourself, chilling and unwinding, absorbing something other than real life for an hour or so.
These surely are some strange times. Not unique times by any means, nor are these the end-times that some would have you believe. Just strange times, is all.
It’s now the distant future, the year 2018, and the Conchords are back. They’ve got an hour-and-a-half-long live special airing on HBO, which premiered on the weekend so you’ll be able to find it one way or another by now, recorded in London in July and featuring several new songs.
Matt Groening is back, did you realise? Old mate from The Simpsons and Futurama has a new show on Netflix called Disenchantment and it’s pretty decent. Some of the early reviews weren’t fantastic but that’s what you get when you try judge an entire show on the basis of a handful of episodes.
Back in the day Da Ali G show was chilling at the peak of comedy. Like the best of humour it was about more than the jokes, it was about exposing idiocy and privilege and hypocrisy and bigotry.
There’s this one episode on the new season of Atlanta called Teddy Perkins. If you’ve seen it then you already know that it’s about the freakiest, strangest, most discomforting and completely compelling 41 minutes of telly that you’re likely to see all year.
Thrones Ocho will be just six episodes long. Chances are they’ll be touching upon movie lengths in runtime – Thrones can do whatever it wants at this stage – but once those precious offerings are done… then winter will have come and gone for good.
The thing you get from the Fire Walk With Me film is that, amongst the Cooperisms, the small town insidiousness, the parables of good and evil, the coffee and the cherry pie, this was always the story of Laura Palmer.
I don’t wanna go too deep in on what just happened though, not with the finale so close at hand. Instead here are a bunch of thoughts and questions ahead of the final couple hours of Twin Peaks – The Return.
From hefty yarns and scary surprises in the Dragon Pit to some sibling bonding and even a little impending doom. Must've been that Season Seven finale.
EvilCoop strolls up to the convenience store – as in: the convenience store, the one from the atomic flashbacks – and demands to see Phillip Jeffries. A Woodsman takes him in, another takes him to Jeffries...
The North of the Wall Olympics, some high stakes sibling rivalries, plenty of stuff with dragons and what not... there's only one more ep this season!
Two episodes left in the season and the boys are marching north, all the way north. Meanwhile Cersei's spilling secrets and Littlefinger's up to his old tricks. Plus there's also an old mate returns who knows how to handle a pair of oars and a hammer.