A commentary with spoilers by Nalini Haynes Spoilers are coming. You have been warned. Fly, you fools! ‘His Sister’s Keeper’ begins with a flashback to Octavia’s birth, …
Speculative fiction
Little Shop of Horrors (theatre)
A review by Nalini Haynes Last night I attended The Little Shop of Horrors at the Canberra Theatre Centre. This musical production is based on …
The 100 s01e05: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
A review by Nalini Haynes Raven comes in for a landing; with the whole planet to crash land on, she manages a site not too …
The Returned (Les Revenants) s01e01: Camille
A review by Nalini Haynes The Returned is a French TV series about a group of people, including Camille, who return from the dead to …
The 100 s01e04: Murphy’s Law
A review by Nalini Haynes Once upon a time there was a guy called Murphy who, common knowledge would have it (in spite of several other theories) was …
The 100 s01e03: Earth Kills
A review by Nalini Haynes Last episode was called ‘Earth Skills’, a reference to a class the teenagers took at school on the ark. This …
Containment s01e03: Be Angry At The Sun
A review by Nalini Haynes ‘Be Angry At The Sun’ begins with another quote but this one is less well-known. It appears the writers aim to …
Containment s01e02: I to die, you to live
A review by Nalini Haynes During the pilot (review here), Contagion repeatedly showed scenes in the future, of riots and infected people with blood and …
Fireman by Joe Hill
A review by Nalini Haynes Harper Grayson works as a school nurse. Someone spontaneously combusts outside her office window. A spore called ‘dragonscale’ is spreading …
Containment s01e01: Pilot
A review by Nalini Haynes Containment is the US remake of European TV series Cordon, created by Carl Joos. It is a hospital in Atlanta, USA, …
Special by Georgia Blain
A review by Nalini Haynes Fern Marlowe was datawiped and dumped in a corporation where she works for data to eat. She remembers her earlier …
Winterkill by Kate A Boorman
A review by Nalini Haynes Emmeline is a 15 year old girl living in a walled settlement in the middle of nowhere, eking out an …
Shannara Chronicles s01e05: Reaper
A review by Nalini Haynes To read my reviews in order, to see my initial enthusiasm be replaced with increasing snark, check out all my Shannara …
The 100 s01e02: Earth Skills
A review by Nalini Haynes In the previous episode Octavia demonstrated her leet Earth skills by going swimming only to be almost eaten by a gigantic snake (NOT …
The 100 s01e01: Pilot
A review by Nalini Haynes The 100 has been on my TBW list for some time. Ironically, I finally started watching because of the controversy …