by Will | Sep 10, 2018 | WRITING
At the tail end of last year, Fear the Walking Dead made it into my Top Ten Shows of 2017 – a perhaps surprising choice for a series that began so terribly. A sprinkling of new cast members, the most sprawling yet claustrophobic location yet, a peppering of...
by Will | Feb 12, 2018 | DIRECTING, THOUGHTS, WRITING
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 9, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, DIRECTING, WRITING
After a stupendous fourth season introduced Antifa subtexts to a brilliantly immersive, illusory and dystopian Agents of HYDRA mirror-universe, I was expecting great things from writers D.J. Doyle, the Zuckerberg sisters et al… but alas. Agents of SHIELD Season...
by Will | Feb 7, 2018 | THOUGHTS, WRITING
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to a galaxy far, far away, Kathleen Kennedy has announced that Game of Thrones writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are the new Star Wars writers. According to the official Star Wars site, the new films “will be...
by Will | Feb 3, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, WRITING
The show I forgot to put on my Top Twenty List of 2017 (but wouldn’t have made the top ten) looked to have become less American and less godly when it was announced American Gods new showrunner would be… Hold your horses, Louis! Let’s get a bit of...
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,...
