How Television Saved My Life

"Let me be brave." MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD I'm an avid Doctor Who fan, and some, well   those few individuals that read this blog are probably wondering why on earth I've not blogged about series nine. I've been saving it up to make a big whopper of a post, because I want to double back and watch the episodes again. Series nine has actually been a lot of fun and has picked up a thread from the latter of series eight (which was fun at the end). Unfortunately something's come up - Clara Oswald ( Jenna Coleman )  that is. The impossible girl. The girl who flew in on a leaf. She's gone. Somehow I knew that Clara would go bravely ahead, but it's the first companion to have really died in New Who. There have been others, but never a recurring character at this scale. I had prepared myself already as I knew Jenna Coleman's contract was up. Despite all of that, I never really felt prepared for what was to come. It's not a big scale fanfa...

When the news about Jessica Jones  burst out post-Daredevil I became rather giddy, and even more so when the tiny teasers popped up, teasing both the heroine herself acted by Krysten Ritter (known from Breaking Bad) and the devilish purple man  played by David Tennant (beloved tenth Doctor). I was counting the days towards its release on the twentieth of November and I promised myself that I would try to limit my watching to one episode per day. I failed spectacularly by watching all the 13 episodes in one sitting. Jessica Jones is about Jessica Jones ; she's a private investigator, earning money on taking photographs of people cheating on their spouses and the other classical stuff. She, however, is not the healthiest of people veering off to a rather self-destructive pattern with loads of alcohol besides pushing people away because of dark deeds in her past. If this was any old hero  you'd not blink an eye, as it's regular business. Loads of detective shows are m...