by Will | Jan 24, 2020 | DIRECTING
After a stupendous fourth season introduced brilliantly overt political subtexts to a wonderfully immersive, illusory and dystopian Agents of HYDRA mirror-universe, I was expecting great things from writers D.J. Doyle, the Zuckerman sisters et al… but alas....
by Will | Jan 8, 2020 | DIRECTING
When Counterpart launched its first episode two full months before we’d get to see the second, it seemed a fresh and original concept. A gripping idea of an alternate universe accessible only from a subterranean door under a grey, Kafka-esque Berlin government...
by Will | Feb 12, 2018 | WRITING, DIRECTING, THOUGHTS
Further to my recent post about it taking one hell of a storyteller to both write and direct a TV series, I thought I’d try and back it up with some evidence from the show-in-question; Waco S01E03 Operation Showtime. Visions and Omens and The Strangers Across...
by Will | Feb 2, 2018 | DIRECTING, THIS IS THE NEWS
Damon Lindelof has found his man to direct the pilot of his new show, HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel… and it’s not a man, it’s Nicole Kassell. Lindelof knows her work well because the...
by Will | Jan 11, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, DIRECTING, WRITING
You may have noticed that, after an enthusiastic effort at the beginning, I stopped posting The Leftovers reviews about half way through season three. This is because I get so involved in Damon Lindelof shows that I cannot write subjectively. They are not TV shows,...
by Will | Jan 8, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, DIRECTING
David Fincher’s Mindhunter came out of nowhere to arrive on Netflix and instantly wrote itself into my top five shows of 2017. Based on the book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, the brutal series tells the tale of two FBI agents Holden...
