The job of a penultimate episode is to act as a springboard for the season (and in this case, series) finale. Whilst it was rushed, this penultimate episode provided some decent springboards for the finale. The episode kicks off with Real Nathan’s captivity and torture at the hands of Horizen being shown, with the reveal that Horizen’s new MRI technology
Read moreThis episode, which marks the halfway point of the season, is all about Taya’s ninth birthday. The episode kicks off with Lauren and Ned getting ready for Taya’s birthday party, with Ned having stayed up all night to bake her three-tier birthday cake and make healthy snacks for her friends to eat. Ned tells Lauren that his mother, Annie, is
Read moreThis episode sees Lauren, Ned and Taya eventually getting into a rhythm as a family. The episode kicks off with Lauren and Ned trying to have sex in the campervan, only to be interrupted by Taya coming in and throwing a frog at them thinking it’s the devil. The episode then cuts to Lauren getting a call from Taya’s school
Read moreNow that the pilot has come and gone, the fun can really begin by going deeper into the season. This episode focuses more on the reality that Lauren and Ned find themselves in, with the episode kicking off on Lauren packing up her office and Ned packing up his café. When Lauren and Ned go back to Darwin, they, along
Read moreThe job of a show’s pilot is to establish the show’s premise and characters. This show’s pilot is in the unique position of both being a sequel to a film (in this case Top Wedding, which was released in 2019, and I enjoyed watching at my local cinema) and establishing itself as a standalone TV show. This pilot did its
Read moreNow that the premiere has come and gone, we can dig into the season. The episode kicks off with Backup Nathan finding multiple missed calls and an angry voicemail from Nora, who chastises him for lying about Real Nathan’s fate. He sees this as Ingrid tells him she is applying to be a life coach chinchilla for Horizen. It’s later
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season and continue any arcs established in the previous season’s finale. Upload’s final season is in a unique position with this job description of doing this well, even with arguably, one of the shortest TV seasons to work with, as it will only consist of four
Read moreNow that I’ve finished reviewing and analysing Disney’s Bronze Age, the next era I will be exploring is the Renaissance Era. The Renaissance Era consisted of ten animated feature films, and lasted for ten years from 1989 to 1999: The Renaissance Era is known for the implementation of a Broadway music style, a return to telling legends and fairytales (and bringing back
Read moreNow that I’ve watched and written analysis pieces on the eight animated feature films of the Bronze Age: The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, and Oliver & Company, I’m going to rank them from my least favourite to my favourite. 8 – The
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