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Love Island in Winter

Bridie Adams reviews and compares Love Island winter with Love Island that is on in the summer. With the first series of Love Island in Winter underway, there is significant controversy surrounding whether two series of Love Island a year is necessary, as well as the effect of this on body positivity and commercialization. Love […]

INTERVIEW: Ramin Setoodeh’s Ladies Who Punch

Online Features Editor Bryan Knight interviews Ramin Setoodeh on his recent New York Times Bestselling Book. A talk show surviving more than one season, in our current broadcasting climate, seems almost miraculous. Lasting twenty-two years is unthinkable. Yet this is the reality for one show – The View. In 1997 Barbara Walters created the multigenerational platform […]

Roseanne Barr(ed) – on conservative sitcom families

Sitcom audiences often think that their favourite shows must exist in a binary, perhaps a result of America’s almost humorously centrist perspectives. Hence, Roseanne was thought of as the “natural” binary to the left-leaning sitcoms such as Modern Family, or the “wholesome conservative” opposite of edgily racist comedians or cartoons. The show tries to play […]

Favourite TV Scenes

My Favourite TV Scenes: 5) “Hello friend.” (Mr Robot: Season 1, Episode 1) The opening scene of any series is a notoriously difficult task as writers grapple with introducing characters, plot and hooking the audience into the show. Sam Esmail’s Mr Robot perfectly combines all three in an opening sequence that is grippingly unpredictable. Elliot’s […]

Iconic Film Scenes: Volume 1

Movies, actors, directors, quotes – cinema provokes non-stop conversations amongst its fanatics in all of these areas. So often neglected though, are the scenes that makes movies what they are; those individual moments of art that fill a viewer with laughter, tears or exhilaration. As such I have compiled this list of my favourite movie […]

Review: Bojack Horseman Season 4

Mild spoilers for Season 4 of Bojack Horseman(definitely watch the trailer first). Bojack Horseman has been a great show for a while now. Its vicious, honest depiction of depression, existentialism and the human condition, juxtaposed with inventive visual puns and a world of talking animals, make for a compelling and unique viewing experience; a beautiful […]

More TV debates? Be careful what you wish for.

With only five weeks left until the General Election, it seems almost certain that we will not see any television debates. Theresa May ruled out an appearance at the start of the campaign, and, since then, Jeremy Corbyn has insisted he will only appear if the Prime Minister deigns to as well. May has been […]