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The I'm With Geek TV Team have been watching their shows which you picked for them! How are they getting on? Read on to find out and help them pick their next show!
by Cookie N Screen
Orange is the New Black is back! Aren’t we all excited? What have we been doing with our lives but bumping into one another aimlessly whilst trying to crawl our way back into Litchfield whilst the women there try to get out? The best show on Netflix is hopefully coming out swinging as it faces down a third season of inmate goodness after the finale of the season two. Releasing the episode seven hours early, the VOD service is enriching our lives once more as we follow on from Vee’s death, Rosa’s daring escape and the gaggle of nuns protesting for Sister Mary’s food strike. With the months that have passed, can season three continue to shine on like the previous two did? In a word, yes. Yes it can.
by Paul Robert Scott
In recognition of its outstanding, worldwide success, Downton Abbey is due to receive a special Tribute and award from BAFTA on Tuesday, 11th August. The Tribute itself will be filmed for broadcast later this year as the cast and crew gather with a live audience to celebrate the show’s unparalleled success as it enters its sixth and final season.
by Cookie N Screen
I’ve never been the biggest fan of The Office, both UK and US versions. It’s not that I hated it completely but I could never really get into it. Perhaps it was the characters or perhaps it was the set up. See I could never completely grasp the idea that a film crew, unseen, is following some lowly office workers around and they are interviewed after a certain event happens. It seems like a cheap trick. But while I couldn’t wrap my head around The Office, I most certainly dived head first into Parks and Recreation without a second thought. Why? Because of Leslie Knope and her collection of incredible characters who lifted this show into exceedingly good comedy.
by Helen Langdon
Over the last few years, there’s been an explosion of Nordic thrillers on English-speaking screens. There’s just something about the combination of bleakly beautiful landscapes, thick knitted jumpers and Scandinavian languages that excites us. Especially when it’s linked to dastardly tales of crime. They’re the types of shows that BBC4 shows, things like The Killing, Wallander and Borgen. And now you can have your own Nordic Noir programming with Arrow Films’ newest DVD line. Next out on DVD, released on 15th June, is The Spider (otherwise known as Edderkoppen).
by Cookie N Screen
Before I begin, let’s talk about Jamie Fraser. It feels as though Outlander has been very clever to use last week’s episode as a halfway point between the two characters. The focus on Claire, up until her decision to stay with Jamie, left her newly appointed husband in a bit of a cliché quandary. Apart from his belt beating, Jamie was a Knight in Shining Armour who could do no wrong. He took lashings for women, protected Claire from everyone and defended his family’s honour. So the focus away from the time travelling heroine and filling Jamie with a more in depth look at this character in episode twelve - Lallybroch
by Robbie Jones
Episode Nine of Game of Thrones is always the most exciting. The penultimate episodes of the past four seasons has seen Ned Stark getting beheaded, Stannis Baratheon’s attack on King’s Landing, Robb and Catelyn Stark being slaughtered and the Night’s Watch defending Castle Black from The Wildlings. Overall, it’s usually the biggest episode of the season, but that didn’t look to be the case this year. Last week’s episode was a triumph and cast members have said that next week’s finale will break the internet, so episode nine is just plopped in the middle. Will it be able to rival its predecessor or successor? Maybe. But first, let’s talk about all its issues, because it wouldn’t be an episode of Season Five if there weren’t any.
by Cookie N Screen
Outlander very quickly became one of the best shows on TV. Well, Video on Demand anyway. Amazon Prime did something courageous in adapting Diana Gabaldon’s work that rivalled Game of Thrones and Vikings so well. The writing is splendid and gifted us a full fleshed “modern” woman, bringing her into the 1700s and exploring the tensions between Scotland and England. The story of Claire Randall magically being whisked back in time from 1945 to a war torn Scotland and scooped up in the arms of Highlander Jamie Fraser whilst trying to get back to her husband Frank. All the while the pair are pursued by the ruthless and sadistic Black Jack Randall, a distant ancestor to her husband…
by Helen Langdon
Netflix’s latest original series, Sense8, definitely has the sci-fi heritage. Co-created by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) and J Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), and starring actors like Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman and Lost’s Naveen Andrews, the series aims to explore the subjects most science-fiction shows tend to skim over, like gender, sexuality and religion. Based on the first episode, does it succeed?
by Cookie N Screen
Our stomachs have been emptied, our television tongues salivating with the lack of gore and horror, our appetites un-whetted and our palate fervent and begging for a little culture in our tastes. Hannibal has left us crying out for more as the cliff-hanger finale of season two, missing its psychological prowess and cannibalistic poetry. But now it’s back, answering some much needed questions (and leaving some still very much up in the air). Curving across the world and jetting off from the destroyed Baltimore, in the aftermath of a finale as four lives hang in balance, Hannibal’s third season lifts off into a much more seductive territory, Florence. |
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