The animation in all eight offerings in season two is well above average, ranging from a marvelously stylistic 2-D “Ice” to sly caricatures in “Automated Customer Service” to a gritty hyperrealism in “Pop Squad” or “Life Hutch”. The stories themselves had plotlines familiar to SF fans—robot uprisings, grim cops in dystopian cultures, immortality in a …
Based on The Stand by Stephen King Developed by Josh Boone & Benjamin Cavell Executive producers Benjamin Cavell, Taylor Elmore, Josh Boone, Will Weiske, Jimmy Miller, Roy Lee, Richard P. Rubinstein Producers Stephen Welke, Jill Killington, Knate Lee, Owen King Production locations British Columbia, Canada James Marsden as Stu Redman Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith …
Trickster Created by Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott Based on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Directed by Michelle Latimer Starring Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Anna Lambe Take a disaffected high school boy with a messed-up home life and few prospects. Have him discover one day that he has special powers that …
Utopia Note: Since I plan to discuss the nature of the conspiracy that is central to the story only read to the double line and no further if you don’t want any plot spoilers. Created by Dennis Kelly Based on An original idea by Huw Kennair-Jones, Mark Aldridge, & Clare McDonald Written by Dennis Kelly …
Japan Sinks:2020 Per Wikipedia: Japan Sinks: 2020, was animated by Science Saru, with Pyeon-Gang Ho serving as the series’ director and Masaaki Yuasa as director. Toshio Yoshitaka handled series composition, Naoya Wada designed the characters, and Kensuke Ushio composed the series’ music. Yuko Sasaki, Reina Ueda and Tomo Muranaka are credited with starring roles. It …
Nightflyers Executive producers Daniel Cerone, George R. R. Martin, Jeff Buhler, Gene Klein, David Bartis, Doug Liman, Alison Rosenzweig, Michael Gaeta, Lloyd Ivan Miller, Alice P. Neuhauser Producers Robert Jaffe, Andrew McCarthy Production companies: Fevre River Jacket Co., Gaeta/Rosenzweig, Hypnotic Universal Cable Worldwide Sales and Distribution Main Cast: Eoin Macken as Karl D’Branin, an astrophysicist …
Kingdom Season 2 Hangul 킹덤 Genre Historical period, Political drama, Supernatural, Horror, Thriller Based on The Kingdom of the Gods by Kim Eun-hee and Yang Kyung-il[1] Written by Kim Eun-hee Directed by Kim Seong-hun Starring Ju Ji-hoon, Ryu Seung-ryong, Bae Doo-na, Kim Sung-kyu Country of origin South Korea When I wrote a review of Kingdom …
The Promised Neverland Yakusoku no Neverland (original title) TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (2019– ) Series Directed by: Mamoru Kanbe (11 episodes, 2019) Series Writing Credits: Kaiu Shirai (12 episodes, 2019) Production manager: Suzanne St. Clair (12 episodes, 2019) Production Companies: Aniplex (production), CloverWorks (animation), Fuji Television Network (production), Shueisha …
Happy! Season 2 Created by: Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor Series Directed by : Brian Taylor, Wayne Yip, Marianna Palka, David Petrarc, Joseph Kahn, Christopher Meloni Series Writing Credits Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor, Ken Kristensen, Ahmadu Garba, Ashley Michel Hoban, Darick Robertson, Matthew White, Patrick Macmanus, Noelle Valdivia, Peter Macmanus, Evan T. Reilly Series Cast Christopher …
We’re Not Fucking Around Here: a review of The End of the F***ing World, season two Dark comedy Based on The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman Written by Charlie Covell Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, Lucy Tcherniak, Lucy Forbes, Destiny Ekaragha Starring Alex Lawther, Jessica Barden, Gemma Whelan, Wunmi Mosaku, Steve Oram, Christine …