As much as I've been trying to prove myself wrong, I can't find any figures bigger than the ~12k one for minority population. Calling out the whitewashing of history was absolutely correct and it certainly made sense for non-white people to be represented, but to the degree the episode did and with black people…

Fun episode, although not much more than that. I'm warming to Bill now the mentor-student dynamic is starting to take shape, giving a sense of purpose to her relationship with the Doctor even if, character-wise, she's still not much more than an accent. Pearl Mackie and Peter Capaldi are finding their groove and the…

Umami? U hardly know mi.

Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.

People lie about reading the Bond books? Not only are they easy read pulp thrillers, but rarely come in at much more than 250 pages apiece. I seem to remember Casino Royale barely breaks 200. Come on, people.

That was passable, but I'm still not feeling Bill. For all the talk of her being a richer character, she's still only defined by the three standard Moffat Woman traits: sassiness, meta-commentary, curiosity. Pearl Mackie's likeable enough, but I've yet to see the individuality and purpose to mark the character out as…

Atwood didn't call her book feminist either, at least when it was released. While it has themes in common with the concerns of the feminist movement, aspects of the dystopia were as much what she saw as the logical endpoints of the extremism of the movement at the time, especially the sex negativity. She saw her novel…

Thank god, her mugging is insufferably annoying - Brendan O'Carroll's tedious Mrs Brown's Boys has more 'charm' and 'depth'. She'd nevertheless only be a relatively small step down from the inexorable blob of mundanity that is Kris Marshall. As far as female candidates go, I could sort of see Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but…

The Architect scene encapsulates a lot of what the Matrix sequels did both so well and so horribly. His speech patterns, on one hand, are logically perfect for a character whose function is the mathematical calculation of cause and effect, while his is arguably the most subversive scene in any of the films for how it…

I don't think anyone's ever interpreted The Matrix as a men's rights movie. Redpillers merely adopted the name as symbolic of the idea that they were opening people's eyes to 'the truth' (cough) of men being oppressed, rather than anything to do with the movie as a whole. Of course, the name becomes hilariously…

The revival episodes were, mytharc nonsense aside, generally a pleasant surprise. Home Again was great. Were-Monster was good. Founder's Mutation and Babylon both wobbly, but OK. Only the inexplicably named My Struggle episodes really, well, struggled - and as someone who has generally defended Monica Reyes, the…

It always disappointed me that Kim Jong-Il didn't call one of his daughters Kim Jong-Elle. Hopefully Kim Jong-Un will make up for it by calling his son Kim Jong-Deux.

"So it's a blasphemous film, father?"
"Oh, it is."
"What type o' thing is it?"
"Mad stuff. Very immoral. You wouldn't like it."
"Is it a type of nudie thing, father?"
"You wouldn't believe the amount of nudity in it."
"Do you see the lot, do you, father, or is it just the top half you see?"
"Nothing is left to the…

James Hewitt: "I am your father."

I thought that's why we invented vacuum cleaners.

Won't happen. People are getting in a panic about it because hyperbolic catastrophising is the status quo right now. While Le Pen seems to have a comparable level of support to the other candidates, her numbers haven't been helped at all by other candidates' problems - in fact, they've very slightly dipped - and she's…

The best bit of the Germany gag is the "I was 'bout to say" at the end.

A mess, for me. Bill's OK, but - appreciating that it usually takes companions a few episodes to find their feet - at this point looking like a less developed, slightly more annoying version of Donna. Moffat's habit of using dialogue to disguise a lack of character personality is in full swing here: where Donna was a…

Sounds like the perfect running time for an extended trailer for Justice League 2: The Grumpening.

If you're going to link to a New Girl clip on YouTube, this is the only acceptable one even if it's not directly applicable: https://www.youtube.com/wat…