#gt:tv

[denofgeek]

Marvel Studios' Loki | Official Trailer | Disney+

[denofgeek]

It’s a Sin Review: Russell T Davies AIDS Drama is a Soaring Tribute

It’s a Sin starts on Friday, January 22nd at 9pm on Channel 4 and All4. All five episodes will be available to stream after episode one on All4. It will air on HBO Max in the US later this year.

[denofgeek]

The Falcon flying in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 1.

[denofgeek]

Steve from Blue's Clues Reminds Us Why Children's TV Matters - Den of Geek

Steve from Blue's Clues' brief return to the public eye reminds us all of just how important children's TV programming can be.

What makes a great children’s TV show?

Is it the colorful aesthetic of the world on-screen? Is it the funny voices of the cartoons and the playful interactions they have with one another? It’s all that but it’s also more. Good children’s shows understand that young ones are intelligent enough to grapple with concepts like right and wrong, friendship, family, and what it means to be creative. Kids are far more shrewd than adults give them credit for, therefore making a program for an age group that we have been out of touch with for decades presents a myriad of challenges.

Once in a while there is a show that understands all of the above and for kids who grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was nothing like Nick Jr.’s Blue’s Clues...

[Read more at Den of Geek]

[denofgeek]

Squid Game's Most Heartbreaking Hour is Also Its Best - Den of Geek

Squid Game is consistently great across its nine episodes, but one hour stands above the rest.

“Gganbu” isn’t the Squid Game episode with the highest kill count. It’s not the episode when we finally discover the man behind the deadly competition, or its ultimate winner. It is not the most fast-paced or action-driven of the Netflix series’ nine installments, nor is it the bloodiest. Instead, it is a relatively quiet hour that divides its characters into teams of two, with each pair acting as their own mini-social experiment. If the “deadly competition” trope is designed to reflect on the inherent goodness or not of humanity, then Squid Game‘s most articulate answer to the question of what humans will or will not do to survive comes in “Gganbu,” and it is as nuanced as it is heartrending...

[Read more at Den of Geek]

[denofgeek]

Star Trek: How Dr. Pulaski Helped The Next Generation Find Its Feet - Den of Geek

We’ve all been way too hard to Dr. Katherine Pulaski. Without Diana Muldaur’s divisive character, Star Trek: The Next Generation would have

If you’ve been watching Star Trek: Lower Decks, then you’ve probably noticed that Dr. T’Ana is clearly based on the notorious Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s not that Gillian Vigman is trying to channel the performance of Diana Muldaur—because she’s clearly doing her own thing—so much as the entire vibe of Dr. T’Ana is as though our collective opinions about Dr. Pulaski were channeled into a cranky, sentient cat-alien. Pulaski was human, but if you were going to reboot the character as an alien species in Star Trek, everyone would choose to make her a Caitian, or perhaps, the other cat aliens, the Kzinti. (There are a lot of cat aliens in Trek!)

The larger point is simple: Dr. T’Ana is, in some ways, a hilariously exaggerated version of Pulaski. But I’m here to argue that the actual character and impact of Dr. Pulaski are both much more nuanced than anyone remembers. Here’s why Dr. Pulaski was surprisingly pivotal for The Next Generation, and why you should never talk bad about her ever again...

[Read more at Den of Geek]

[denofgeek]

Superman flying in Superman & Lois 1x03.

[denofgeek]

Superman & Lois Episode 1: DC Comics and Movie Easter Eggs

His suit (especially the emblem) looks like the version from the Max Fleischer cartoons... Incidentally, his “my mom made it for me” line was used in the pilot episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in 1993. It also speaks to a piece of Superman lore that often switches back and forth in the comics and elsewhere. For years, it was generally accepted that Clark’s costume was made by Martha Kent from the blankets that came with the rocket. In some recent interpretations (notably the Man of Steel film), it’s a piece of Kryptonian ceremonial wear of some kind, and is alien in nature.