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The comedy-drama television series Californication ran from 2007 to 2014. It stars X-Files’ Agent Mulder, David Duchovny, as Hank Moody: a successful writer whose womanizing and drinking complicate his relationship to his former lover Karen and their daughter Becca.That might sound heavy and rather depressing, but it’s not. Most of the tragic elements in Hank’s…

After watching the first season of The L Word: Generation Q I decided to re-watch the original show. I have only seen it once, back when it originally aired, but I could remember the show clearly. Not every detail, but I could still remember a lot of the characters and certain story-lines. The original show…

When I wrote the first “What The Franchise?!” I intended it to be a recurring series. But here I am, 4.5 years later, writing the second installment of the intended series. For what it’s worth: it makes me feel like George R. R. Martin. Last week I watched all three Look Who’s Talking movies. Movies…

I have fond memories of the British comedy series ‘Allo ‘Allo! The TV show ran for much of my younger years and I grew up on all of the catchphrases produced by this show. When walking into the classroom it would become a staple to greet everyone with “good moaning”. Though adults weren’t always happy…

The #MeToo movement has been both a blessing and a curse at the same time. On the one hand there is now a climate in which people who claim to have been sexually assaulted by people in power are being heard. On the other hand that same climate gives people the power people to destroy…

Just recently there were news headlines like “Scarlett Johansson Won’t Portray Transgender Man in Film” and “Ruby Rose exits Twitter amid Batwoman casting backlash“. In both cases there is outrage about the fact that fictional LGTB characters are being played by non-LGBT actors. This outrage is something I find very troubling since it causes a…

Moonlighting is one of those TV shows I never saw when I was young, but was aware it existed from a young age due to a MAD magazine parody. I knew it was the show that launched the career of Bruce Willis as well as being the prime example that you should never let the…

Picking a TV show to watch is something I take seriously. You’re often committing yourself to many hours of watching something that often lasts years. I approach TV shows almost the same way I do movies: no matter how bad a movie is, once I started watching it I’m going to sit through it. Only…

Ever since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (BvS) was released it has been clear to me that the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) might be in trouble. With the release of Suicide Squad I can only conclude that it actually is in trouble. Deep trouble even. This is the third movie in a row that…

If you were in your teens during the early 90’s chances are you probably watched Saved By The Bell. The main reason almost everybody from that generation has watched this show is simple: there was simply nothing else. I don’t mean that in a negative way actually. Saved By The Bell was simply the first…

With the release of Straight Outta Compton last week a somewhat dormant genre has been given a fresh breath of life: the “urban drama” or rather the “black urban drama” also known as “hood movies” though that term applies to all movies just set in a “hood”. There is an interesting circle of life thing…

If there is one movie maker people love to hate it’s George Lucas. Lucas made himself an empire when he wrote and directed Star Wars back in 1977. This was the last highlight of his career as a director as the only movies he directed after that were the critically failed Star Wars prequel movies….