The job of a show’s pilot is to establish its premise and characters. This show did a good job. The TV Week 2022 Preview’s edition described Summer Love as an “anthology series on eight different stories across eight episodes set at the same beach holiday house.” This means that this show has a revolving cast in each episode, however the
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to bring the season’s story arcs and subplots to a close, and to establish new ones for the next season (if there is a next season). I felt that this finale did its job perfectly. The finale kicks off with Easton showing Margot a trailer made for his upcoming TV show, telling her
Read moreThe episode kicks off with Easton discussing TV show ideas with June, with June telling him that he needs an idea for a show that is unique to him. She also reveals to Easton that it’s her 73rd birthday. When Easton goes in the house to tell Diana that it’s June’s birthday, he finds one of her desserts and she
Read moreDiana and Easton are back in the soup kitchen to throw a fundraiser lunch. The episode kicks off with Diana visiting Margot at her vineyard, with Margot telling her about her business aspirations to establish a cellar door experience. Diana is there looking for Easton, telling her about their dinner with June the night before. After Diana leaves, Margot gives
Read moreThis episode was all about June. This episode takes place over the course of one evening and at the house. The family have dinner together with June to figure out why she’s come back after several years of absence with no explanation. June reveals that she’s spent most of her life travelling, firstly through Europe and then Australia with the
Read moreNow that the premiere has come and gone, the fun can really begin with story arcs and subplots. This episode has Brett and Denise taking a dance class as it was one of their wedding gifts, and Diana struggling to come up with a menu for a famous chef at the London restaurant she works at, as she and Easton
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish story arcs and subplots for the season. This premiere did its job perfectly. The second season of Aftertaste kicks off with roughly a year passing since the events of the season one finale, with Diana returning from London with her new boyfriend, Harry, for Brett and Denise’s wedding. It’s revealed in
Read moreScrubs: Interns is a web series based on the medical comedy-drama, Scrubs. Scrubs: Interns features four interns in their first year at Sacred Heart Hospital: Katie, Denise, Howie and Sunny. According to its Wikipedia page, Scrubs: Interns, has Sunny directing the series as a video diary project, and each of Scrubs’ main cast members appears in at least one webisode.
Read moreAs well as reviewing the parent series and season two web series, Sidelines, I decided to review the season one web series, The Goss Boss (or TGB). According to the parent series’ Wikipedia page, The Goss (GTB) is a “fictional gossip show that covers the feuds and fashions featured in Playing for Keeps.” Liz Baldwin, General Manager of Digital at
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new story arcs and subplots for the next season (if there is another one). I felt that this finale mostly did its job. As the season has been establishing Henry and Clare’s relationship from the start, from both their perspectives (from when Clare met
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