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Deep impact

Published July 3, 2023

Deep impact

We need to talk about Silo… and there will be spoilers. To set thing up, I was looking forward to this obviously, as it’s about a post-apocalyptic world where a hardy group of survivors live in a sealed bunker, make do and mend, because the outside world is so dangerous. I hadn’t read the books, although I have now somehow managed to snap up all three of the books for future perusal.

Shrinking unwrapped

Published April 6, 2023

Shrinking unwrapped

A week or so ago, the final episode of the first season of Shrinking was released and it wrapped up what has been an incredible series of television. This show, inevitably linked to Ted Lasso thanks to creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, focused on the life of a therapist who was in the grieving process as his wife had just died… and of course the friends and family that surrounds him.

Accessories may be a TV's best friend

Published December 28, 2015

Accessories may be a TV's best friend

In the previous post I wrote about third-party games on the Apple TV, I talked of how brilliant it was that Just Dance can be played without having to dash about the shops in a fruitless search for the correct controller for the job. That’s not the full story though. Whilst the Apple TV remote can be used for all the games that are available, it’s not always the ideal tool for the task at hand.

Dance like nobody's watching

Published December 19, 2015

Dance like nobody's watching

The long-awaited update to the Apple TV that allowed third-party apps has been a mixed blessing. On the one hand, there are lots of new apps to play with and some of them are fan-flippin-tastic! On the other hand, usability and simplicity has taken a big knock, and there were some pretty serious niggles that are, thankfully, gradually being ironed out. Better to dwell on the good, though, and I’ve found the apps to be a breath of fresh air.