Match Game (premiere)
{4/5} “It isn’t that much money, so it’s kind of halfway between a game show and a sitcom, and what you’re hoping is that people are going to keep tuning in to see their favourite panelists make the kinds of jokes that they make.” — Seán Cullen Match Game is a game show that’s been […]
The Dying Earth
{4.5/5} “A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and bright rivers, and the sun was a white blazing ball. Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is feeble and red. The continents have sunk and risen. A million cities have […]
Stargate Universe (season 1)
{4.5/5} “We can’t all be Mozarts, right? Some of us are Salieris. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I… I like Salieri.” In “Darkness” the Destiny experiences a severe loss of power — lights go out, and basically everything except life support is nonfunctional. Then the ship enters a solar system — but it’s […]
Towing Jehovah
{4.5/5} “‘Glad you’re here, Ockham,’ said the creature in the sort of thin, scratchy voice Thomas associated with early-thirties gangster movies. His skin was astonishingly white, beyond Caucasian genes, beyond albinism even; he seemed molded from snow. ‘I’m told you are at once devout’ — he stood on his toes — ‘and smart.’ Whereupon, to […]
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
{4.5/5} “In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it’s far more common for human beings to turn into rats.” Iris is a young girl just arrived in Haarlem in Holland. She fled England with her mother and sister because […]
Melancholia
{3.5/5} “The way I see it, you’re now short of a boss and a husband. Could I, in all humility, offer my services? You have the ideas. I have the head for business. We could be the perfect couple.” Justine has just been married. On the way to the reception the limousine gets stuck. At […]
Revelation Space
{4.5/5} “It was not something to which she was ever going to become totally accustomed, Volyova knew, but in recent weeks visiting the Captain had begun to take on definite tones of normality. As if visiting a cryogenically cooled corpse infected with a retarded but potentially all-consuming plague was merely one of life’s unpleasant but […]
Awkward. (season 2)
{4/5} “OK, let’s stop making drama cakes for a sec and think tank this.” Our favourite awkward high school student Jenna Hamilton is back for a second season. At the end of last season Jenna had found out who had written her the letter, and she had chosen between her two suitors. This season she […]
Trouble with the Curve
{4.5/5} “It must be so rewarding being one of your close friends.” Gus is an aging baseball scout who’s having vision problems. Mickey, his daughter, is a lawyer who is up for partner. The two of them don’t talk very much. Gus is going to need some help if he’s going to check out a […]
Stargate Atlantis (season 5)
{4/5} “I’m not wandering aimlessly, I’m exploring. There’s a big difference.” In “The Queen” Todd (the Wraith)’s Queen has been killed. Teyla poses as the Queen in order to convince the alliance to a plan to rid the Wraith of the need to feed on humans. In “First Contact” Daniel Jackson arrives on the station […]