WAR OF THE WORLDS is coming to Canada this Fall!

August 26 War of the Worlds, Season 1 begins streaming on CBC Gem on October 7! Thanks to Canadian Byrneholic Angelle for this news! And thanks to my Canadian Twitter friend Sammy, here is a link to the CBC War of the Worlds Trailer on Facebook. So just a few […]

How to Survive a Global Disaster: Lessons from WAR OF THE WORLDS

Global disasters take all shapes and forms these days: climate change, viral pandemics, economic downturns that ripple across the world, violence and governmental turmoil resulting in waves of refugees and people suddenly with no homes. The threat of alien attack and human genocide is not really high on our list […]

ZEROZEROZERO: Connections and More

ZeroZeroZero is what we hope for in a series based on a very topical book about narcotics, money laundering, and bad guys. It sustains enormous tension across all eight episodes; it’s gritty and hyper-realistic, but also enormously lyrical and poetic in all the right spots; it uses an unexpected and […]

Darwinism In Action: WAR OF THE WORLDS, Episode 6

Trafalgar Square never looked so bleak. Their hide-out discovered, the London survivors make their way to Bill’s laboratory at the Medical School, their dead specimen bouncing along in the shopping cart. We finally know what this promotional still is all about: Episode 6 offers more evidence that some of the […]

So, Where Are You Going? WAR OF THE WORLDS, Episode 5

It is a bit odd, I admit, to be watching this series while stocking up the pantry and engaging in “social distancing” in my own home, a response to the growing danger of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world. I am going to stick with it, although it is possible […]