Big Tree, Small Axe.

I grow in Britain during the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and I watched the country as it struggled to deal with immigration.I still remember the arrival of the first West Indian immigrant in my school vividly and watching as two boys set upon him, kicking him the head several times. When my friend and I …

Norm MacDonald has a Show.

Norm MacDonald is one of the funniest men alive ( listen to his album Me doing Stand Up for some irrefutable evidence ) Netflix has seen fit to give him his own chat show, and the results are as unconventional and hilarious as we could hope for. Guess such as Letterman and Drew Barrymore are …

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

It may be called , but the FX series is really about the life and death of his murderer Andrew Cunanan, a boy/man who longs for the trappings of success without doing the work needed to achieve it. Kept by a string of elderly male lovers in the style to which undoubtedly believes he was …

I am Woman. Hear me Roar

This season of ‘Game of Thrones’ has been labelled the ‘Season of the Queens’ by its creators. But it also might be labelled ‘A Continuation in the War against Handsome Men’. Unless you’re a little person (apparently the politically correct term) or a eunuch or possibly a boy you’re chances of survival on GOT are …

Unbreakable

Tina Fey’s ‘30 Rock’ is one of the few comedy gems of the 00’s, the sort of show that becomes career defining. No one is necessarily expecting anything as good let alone better. Then along comes ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’, a show with the same crazy off kilter gags as ’30 Rock’ but with a little …

The Ties that Blind

With the arrival at my residence of fine high speed internet the watching of Netflix on my Apple TV is now a happy reality. I’ve wasted no time in binge watching the excellent ‘Narcos’ and now ‘Bloodline’ both of which would make it on to my top ten TV shows of the year list. Bloodline …

Narcos

It’s a tragic fact of life that secretly most of us would love to have a go at being a gangster. The sex appeal of violent men is well documented and people who for example argue that somehow the realness of gangster flicks like ‘Goodfellas’ really show how tawdry it all is are high on …