Inspired By Silicon Valley, I Now Want To Be A Quirky Coder. Hello Python!
I have been binge-watching Silicon Valley on HBO Max, and it has made me want to code. I think I am having a mid-life crisis, which might be related, but … Read More
Category: TV
The Penguin: A Brutal Descent Into Gotham’s Really Grim Underworld
HBO’s The Penguin is a brutal, stylish, and unflinchingly dark crime saga that delivers everything I hoped it would after watching The Batman. It is set just a week after the events … Read More
The White Lotus Season 3 is in stunning Thailand, where I live. Is it realistic?
Plus, is the show any good? I just finished watching The White Lotus Season 3 and loved it. As I mentioned before, tons of friends hassled me into watching the … Read More
Don’t Watch The Fantastic ‘The White Lotus’ On A Plane!
As the latest series of The White Lotus is set in Thailand, where I currently live, friends have pestered me incessantly to watch the show. Even an old fellow I … Read More
Slough House Shenanigans: A Review of Slow Horses
Slow Horses is a spy thriller TV show that streams on Apple TV+. If you like tension, dark humour, backstabbing and twists, it will be right up your alley. Based … Read More
SAS Rogue Heroes is must-see TV
SAS Rogue Heroes became something of an obsession for me in the run-up to Christmas. We recorded the show as they aired and then binged the lot in a couple … Read More
Reacher TV show gets it right
I finished watching the new Reacher TV series on Amazon last week and really enjoyed it. It stuck close to the first book, which is nice in this day and … Read More
Marvel’s Hawkeye TV show looks a lot of fun
At long last, Hawkeye is getting his own film. And it looks a shitload of fun. The time of worrying about whether Marvel will make a decent job of things … Read More
Mythic Quest Raven’s Banquet
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet was the first show I watched when I got Apple TV+. I wasn’t all that bothered about Apple TV but you get a free year when … Read More
Taskmaster is currently my favourite show
I am obsessed with Taskmaster right now. I was listening to BBC Radio 2 recently, and Greg Davies and Alex Horne came on to talk about the new series. It … Read More
Is Cobra Kai as good as people say?
A friend of mine had been banging on about the Cobra Kai show for ages. He thought I would like it as a fellow mid-to-late 40s man who grew up … Read More
The Midnight Gospel
I saw this being heavily advertised on my home Netflix screen and accurately thought, “What the fuck?” I then added it to my list to watch at a later date. … Read More
Community is now on Netflix
I don’t know if it was meant to be ironic, what with everyone being stuck inside and not seeing anyone else, but the comedy show Community is now on Netflix … Read More
Video streaming services while living abroad are mostly rubbish
The internet is currently talking about the new Disney+ streaming service. I have to say, it looks amazing and I desperately want them to have my money. Except I can’t. … Read More
I really wanted to rant about the subscription model but…
I started writing a whining complaint about the increasing move to the subscription model. This was mostly inspired by a diary app I had been using that one day decided … Read More
I am now obsessed with Peaky Blinders
I had heard a lot about Peaky Blinders but for some reason it just sat on my ‘to watch’ list on Netflix for years while I obsessed over other things. … Read More
Toast of London
I haven’t lived in the UK for a while now and somehow missed the entirety of the brilliant Toast of London. I accidentally came across it when picking an audio-book … Read More
Slightly wrong t-shirts
If you are a nerd, then prepare to be either be pedantically enraged or delighted by sheer genius.
Cumberbatch presents the Apple toilet
Benedict Cumberbatch was on Saturday Night Live the other day (probably on Saturday) because he seems to be contractually obliged to be absolutely everywhere at the moment. To be fair, … Read More
Planet Earth 2 by Attenborough
A trailer has just come out for Planet Earth II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The original Planet Earth came out ten years ago and was the most expensive documentary ever commissioned by the BBC and the first to be filmed in high definition. Planet Earth II took 4 years to make, and was filmed in 64 countries and in Ultra-High Definition.