8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (169+ words) Tension and relief allows audiences to process what they’ve witnessed. However, the reprieve should never last long enough for them to feel safe; tension must always lurk just around the corner Another essential component of the thriller genre is cause…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (334+ words) Improvisation is something that strikes fear into the hearts of so many actors. If, as Shakespeare said, ‘the play’s the thing’ then where is the damn script?! So to combine this already tricky medium with an art form that requires…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (375+ words) On the 21st March 2026, the first episode of Saturday Night Live UK premiered to a skeptical, famously critical British audience. Eight weeks later, the show has been renewed for a second series, has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers, and has…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (299+ words) The author Roddy Doyle has a quote about funerals that I think always rings true: “Did you ever laugh at a funeral? Of course I laughed at a funeral. Did you ever not laugh at a wedding? Yeah, it’s so…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (405+ words) Looking back to the 2000s, outside of the major franchises, some of the most popular films of the time were comedies. From Zoolander to Superbad and everything in between, the genre was a major player, appearing as something that would never…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (544+ words) What does the former Prince Andrew, David Attenborough and a Great Big Crab Man have in common? They’re all featured in the brand-new Saturday Night Live (SNL) UK, in one of the rarer cases of an originally American-famous television show…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (693+ words) Yet with all that said, it’s hard to say I care all that much. After all, Top Gear is far from just its problematic elements. It’s entire ethos, even including those parts that make it less than favourable, instead represents…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (674+ words) Nevertheless, Star Wars is foundational to Spaced. Presented through both visual and dialogue references, the two are almost intertwined. But Star Wars is simply the most prominent of a whole series of pop cultural references throughout the show, holding the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (148+ words) Saturday Night Live UK has taken its spin on the US format these past few weeks, delivering a live sketch-show that, while a welcome change of pace for the UK comedy scene, offers only mixed results. Most of the sketches…...

5+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (513+ words) The age of the yearner is upon us, and no one holds more of the blame than Jim Halpert. Jim is the go-to example of the work husband/wife relationship, perhaps only beaten by the CBS duo of Kate Scott…...