Ian Cullen Yesterday Star Trek fans and the general public got their first real look at CBS All Access new series Star Trek: Discovery. As you’d imagine the fan feedback from a fandom that is over 50 years old has been mixed. Star Trek: Discovery is a prequel series, which takes place 10 years before Kirk and Spock and the
This week American Gods opens with a scene in which we see a woman preparing a meal. She reaches up to the top shelf standing on a stool, which is not safe. Her cat is protesting as if it can see what is about to happen. The woman seems to get what she needs from
We first met Mad Sweeney when he challenged Shadow Moon to a bar fight in episode one, but who is he? Leprechauns are well known in Irish mythology for being mischievously cunning short people that are obsessed with their pots of gold. As Shadow Moon points out in the first episode of ‘American Gods’ Sweeney looks a
Last Friday saw the premiere of Sky 1’s new drama series Jamestown in the UK, a historic drama produced by the same people that brought us Downton Abbey. The show centers on the arrival of a small group of women and their contribution to the burgeoning colony. Given that Jamestown the series is a work of
In the last couple of weeks of Prison Break we have learned that Michael has been working for an agent called Poseidon. To date we know that Poseidon has this name because he or she is so deep cover that a submarine couldn’t find them. We also learn that they hired Michael to break the recently
Episode 2 of American Gods begins with a brief flashback to a slave ship in the 1600s. A slave is praying to his god asking to be freed from his chains. He gets more than he bargained for when the god appears and creates an uprising in which all the slaves revolt and burn the Dutch
Last week’s episode of Doctor Who concluded with Nardole hearing some very distinct knocking sounds coming from the vault — which led us to believe that The Master was trapped inside. But who is The Master? He first entered the world of Doctor Who back in 1971 when the late Roger Delgado played the role. Since
This first episode of American Gods introduces us to Shadow Moon, whose world has figuratively and literally been torn asunder. We start off with a story from the past, in which a crew of vikings land on the shores of the New World. But they find that they our not welcomed and pray to their
American Gods is finally here — with British actor Ian McShane as the enigmatically charming Mr. Wednesday. McShane is instantly recognisable to many, with a body of work that dates back to the 1960s. But what have you seen him in? McShane is the son of Manchester United soccer player Harry McShane, who was a winger for the iconic
What are the Doctor and Nardole guarding in the vault? That’s the question fans have been asking since Doctor Who returned to our screens on Easter Saturday. In the opening episode ‘The Pilot’ we learn that the Doctor and Nardole have been regularly guarding something in a vault within the grounds of the university campus where