Here you will find a centralised hub for all TV reviews & essays on Cultural Conversation from 2017 onwards…
REVIEWS
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- After Life (Season 1)
- Cobra Kai (Season 3)
- Cuckoo (Season 5 – 2019)
- Dracula (BBC Mini-Series – 2020)
- Extras (Series Review)
- Fleabag (Series Review)
- Good Omens (Limited Series – 2019)
- His Dark Materials (Season 1 – 2019)
- Lovecraft Country – ‘Sundown’
- Luke Cage (Season 2 – 2018)
- Russian Doll (Season 1 – 2019)
- The Cleaner (Season 1)
- Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Season 1 – 2018)
- Treadstone (Season 1 – 2019)
- WandaVision ‘Episodes 1 & 2’ – a surreal, charming homage to comic Americana
- Years and Years (Limited Series – 2019)
Black Mirror
Breaking Bad
Doctor Who
Game of Thrones
Men Behaving Badly
Miscellaneous pieces
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- A Slayer Reborn: Buffy and the Reboot Question
- Arrested Development: Can we separate Art from the Artist?
- BritBox: Local Telly for Local People
- Don’t Mention the Comedy: Fawlty Towers and Reactionary Cultural Politics
- Escaping Reality: The Feel Good TV Effect
- From Wars to Who: our favourite franchises are evolving – why can’t their fans evolve with them?
- Marvel Malaise: Jessica Jones S2 and the Pacing Problem
- Roseanne: Social Responsibility on Television
- Roy-al Dysfunction: Succession and the Self-Destructive Dynasty
- Six Seasons and (No) Movie (Yet): Reflections on Community
- Starz in Your Eyes: Counterpart and the Dawn of the Streaming Wars
- Stranger Things, Lost and the sudden left turn
- THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF is exactly what we need right now
- The Handmaid’s Tale: Has 1990’s TV Paranoia Returned?
- The League of Gentlemen’s Brexit Britain: why the old guard TV shows are returning now
- The Sense of no Ending: The Walking Dead and sticking the landing
- We Are Like the Dreamers: Experiencing TWIN PEAKS
Star Trek
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- Star Trek: Discovery
- Star Trek: Lower Decks
- Star Trek: Picard
- Star Trek: Prodigy
The Crown
The X-Files
ESSAYS
Alan Partridge
Game of Thrones
Star Trek
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- Fandom, Star Trek: Discovery, and it’s Dark Reflection
- Making it So: the Return of Jean-Luc Picard & Star Trek’s Nostalgic Future
- Nostalgia & Star Trek: Picard, Discovery and the Future
- Plugging gaps: How backstory is *becoming* story
- Star Trek is Boldly Going… but to where?
- Star Trek is at a cinematic crossroads – which path should it take?
- Star Trek: Voyager
The X-Files
Westworld
Last updated: March 27, 2022