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Nick’s Top Ten TV Shows of 2020

  • 28th December 2020

Ladies and gentlemen, we may not have left the house this year, but the one part of normal life we managed to continue is watching TV. So even if the rest of our social norms…

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Nick Bryan
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The TV show of Brave New World doesn’t capture our fear of the future like the book did

  • 30th November 2020
Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a seminal science fiction novel. It’s one of the go-to texts of the dystopian sci-fi sub-genre and is often reached for as a metaphor for totalitarian societies that…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Better Than Us finds originality in the Androids Are People, Too trope

  • 14th October 2020
Better Than US Arisa

On the surface it looks like a person, but underneath it’s a robot. Then via a shocking twist, it is revealed that the robot is actually a person. It may physically be a machine, but…

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The biospherians of Spaceship Earth tried to live in space so we don’t have to

  • 29th August 2020
Spaceship Earth film

A bizarre and largely forgotten piece of history occurred in the Arizona desert in the early 1990s. At the time, it was international news, but the memories of this event haven’t lasted along with Tamagotchis,…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Dark is a complicated show, but sticking with it pays off

  • 26th July 2020
Dark TV show

Dark is not an easy show to follow. It doesn’t go out of its way to be deliberately confusing, like some shows, but the scope and complexity of its plot makes it a challenge to…

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Does Doctor Who have an optimistic vision of the future?

  • 9th April 2020
The Doctor and companions

Are you feeling worried about the present? It’s rubbish right now, isn’t it? We can’t go outside because a killer virus is on the loose. We’re trapped and powerless to do anything about it. This…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2019: A year in film

  • 31st December 2019

A year ago, I finished my summary of film in 2018 by saying that I had a feeling that the cinematic landscape will change because it has been the same for a while and nothing…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Nick’s Top Ten TV Shows of 2019

  • 30th December 2019

Cards on the table, folks  – the podcast schedule is finally hitting an iceberg in the coming weeks thanks to my house move. I thought the problems would happen in December, but no, mostly January….

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The film Alien shows that in the future there will be shit jobs

  • 4th December 2019

Alien is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It slowly and suspensefully builds to moments of sheer terror. The first act of the film is an uneventful character study of people working in…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Are we tired of clever takes on existing tropes?

  • 23rd October 2019

We all know what tropes are and we all know one when we see it. It could be a vampire being destroyed by sunlight, a dragon hoarding gold or a militaristic alien race with an…

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