This was a great interview, thanks Marah. Damian's one of those people I vaguely recognise (largely due to Californication and Neon Joe) but I had no idea he'd been in so many of my favourite things, like three Hal Hartley movies, or Birdman for that matter.

" Basically, after the first two Dinner specials, Brett Gelman’s Dinner In America is the one that’s the most “what you see is what you get.” A 30-minute Brett Gelman Adult Swim special brings with it expectations of weirdness, but where Dinner With Friends and Dinner With Family pushed so far past those expectations,…

Somewhat sadly Caroline Aherne, of The Fast Show, The Royle Family and The Mrs Merton Show passed away today as well, it's been an absolute bastard of a day.

I'm just so glad that I got to see it by chance, without knowing anything about how the film plays out, and so was horrendously freaked out by the ending. I guess like Planet of the Apes, that's near on impossible to do nowadays.

I agree with you about Millennium. Watching it in a pre-internet / pre-spoiler world (for me at least, I was a student at that point and couldn't afford to go online) the ending to the second season came as a complete shock to me, and it's such a shame that the third season reverted back in to being a tedious…

Can't say I agree unfortunately. Season seven started off well, and it was a relief that it wasn't as horrendous as season six, but it lost it's way half way through the season and became pretty shitty by the end.

Yeah, absolutely. I don't want to go in to too much detail on the financial side of things but it's a very expensive exercise and not one you can really make any profit from, unless you get noticed by other publishers and hired to write for them. Perhaps a few small press comics might sell enough for the creators to…

A good friend of mine has self-published several comics (The Walking Wounded and Massacre For Boys series) and it's been quite a fascinating insight in to the small press world. To really make an impact you have to do all of the small press fairs and conventions and spend an awful lot of money promoting your work, and…

It seems so. Still, O'Neal's back soon, maybe he'll save the day!

I thought the same thing, it was definitely a B at the very least. It's a shame as well as this is the final review and anyone skimming the site might be put off watching it.

We tend to go with series for both, which leads to confusion. That's us British though. Fucking idiots.*

I still miss it. It was by no means perfect but it didn't deserve the critical drubbing it received, and Tim Robbins was clearly having an enormous amount of fun in the lead role.

Yeah, I did enjoy that an awful lot. And I've liked and admired other things he's written, but none have had the same impact.

He'll forever be Fifteen Stories High's Benedict Wong to me. It's such a tragedy it only lasted two series…

I'd forgotten how incredibly impressive those early issues of Morning Glory were. And how it really went off the boil after a couple of years rather sadly.

I was surprised to see that missing from the list, it's an odd decision.

Agreed, with this and Doom Patrol (and Zenith, albeit slightly earlier) Morrison was on fire in the late eighties. He's produced a lot of work I've enjoyed since, but none of it has had quite the effect that these series did.

I read this last year by chance (picked it up in a charity shop as the quotes on the cover made it look interesting), and it's pretty awful stuff, and by the ending I felt quite angry that I'd wasted my time with it, which is a fairly rare occurrence.

I'll have to check those out, thanks for the recommendations.

Ah, that's good to hear, thank you.