Category: Television

Electric Dreams: The Hood Maker – a review and a few thoughts on adaptation

September 21, 2017

An enjoyable trope of the sci-fi genre is when the world presented to us has different rules to our own. These differences can be political and social (1984), biological (Children of Men), technological (Ex Machina) or indeed a mixture of all these and more besides (Blade Runner). Part of the fun of reading and/or watching … More Electric Dreams: The Hood Maker – a review and a few thoughts on adaptation

Stranger Things – a spoilery thought or two

August 25, 2017

I have just finished Stranger Things, an 8 episode Netflix original, and it’s….good I guess. It begins with a mysterious disappearance and then meanders through how the town goes about finding said missing child. I enjoyed the first few episodes where we as the viewers are finding out things and trying to piece things together … More Stranger Things – a spoilery thought or two