Sorry to lose the coverage, it's been great.

I actually really like Iron Man 3, but there's no question the choice of scene for the trailer was genius. One of the best scenes of the movie, but also a staggeringly original one - films have had explosions and threats and romance before, but when has a film ever had a sequence like THAT? Even if the resolution was…

"Frankly, if I were running the show, I'd be contacting Netflix on the down-low as much as possible."
Although it'd be nice for the show to maintain some stability by keeping to the format/setting they have (knowing the structure of the show meant this season was better paced for the timeslot than last season), I do…

'So, guys, am I going to get a song this season? I mean, even Sid got the Les Mis number…'
'Well, we've only got two episodes left… but we'll try and fit you in a solo.'
'Great! I get a new, original song?'
'Don't push your luck.'

I've watched every episode at least 4 times, and the first few episodes I've watched probably well over a dozen, because I keep showing it to people. They all love it. They need to market this show so, so much better, because there is an audience. In particular, get it out to the UK! Get it on Netflix, or broadcast TV…

It's being billed not as a prequel so much as another story set in the same world as the Harry Potter saga and set before. Which, yes, does sound a lot like a prequel. But prequels generally are continuations/expansions of the original story (certainly the ones you cite are), which this doesn't seem to be; it doesn't…

I didn't know Kubo and the Two Strings, but I've just looked it up, and I presume the desire to have a more Asian cast is because it's set in Japan? If so, well, Disney have had white American leads while placing people of the correct nationality/ethnicity in supporting roles in their films (Mulan and Pocahontas come…

Why?

What would qualify someone to play an Indian character if not being born and raised in India? What would make someone more suitable to play a character, having lived much of the life of that character or having been born and raised in London but being the right colour (as one of the other actors in 'It Ain't Half Hot…

And promptly failed to acknowledge any of it in challenging it. Well done, you're quite the intellectual.

Did you even read my comment, or do you just want to argue a point regardless of merit?

I too think there are exceptions, that the lines here are more foggy than a lot of people want to realise. One example I like to cite is the British sitcom 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', set in India towards the end of world war II. That had a few prominent Indian characters in it, the main one of which was played by a…

It was obvious and unsatisfying. I'd definitely watch a second series, but unresolved I don't think I could ever watch the first series again. A show I was singing the praises of while it was airing I now won't tell anyone about, that's how much I think the ending (as it is, if it's an ending) damages the show.

Yonderland is fab too, with the same core cast as Horrible Histories (the original core cast, anyway), and the new movie Bill has the same group, also very worth checking out. Matthew Baynton is definitely the breakout star of the group, though I hope he never leaves them behind - as a team they produce wonderful…

[Coded spoiler] Yeah, the very ending totally ruined the show for me, which was until then one of my favourite shows of 2015 (having watched it on Sky1). I'd predicted it around episode 3 (although I'm sure some will have guessed it earlier), so it wasn't a surprise for me, it just sucked seeing it happen. If it gets…

(Also male, so might be missing the same as you, but) I enjoyed the episode, but ruminating on what you said, I think you might be right; usually the surreality within the show will be a metaphor for something more general, taking an experience and putting it at its most literal or extreme (like Josh's ex literally…

I believe he's only introduced in the last half hour, but he makes such a huge impression and gets (and nails) so many good lines that he feels like an equal to the leads. While a lot of the rest of the film can feel like a faded echo of the first film, the stuff with him in has brilliant jokes and a brand new energy…

I'd argue that Airplane 2 is, for a lot of its runtime, a bland retread, but the new gags that are there are fantastic. In particular I'm not sure there's any five minute sequence in Airplane! that's as funny as the first five minutes with Shatner on the lunar bridge.

Some really lousy direction in the first of these two. Really awkward, stilted shots in a lot of places. Second episode was much better directed. Some great songs as usual, I can't wait to hear their approach to the battle numbers (they've already blown through Les Mis this season, I wonder what they'll go with…).

Structurally it makes a strange kind of sense - I can't think of any of the episodic plots that would have sustained a full hour, but a half hour works well for most of them; making it an hour long would involve stretching out plots too thinly, overlapping them unnecessarily or wrapping them up mid-episode so neatly…