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From the opening moments of Goliath Season 4, the legal drama starring Billy Bob Thornton that never abides by the rules, one thing is clear: ever notice how something you've anticipated is nothing like you expected when it arrives? What is clear from previous seasons is that while the legal content is about tort, most …
When I first watched The Expanse, I didn't get on board right away. Yes, the science sounded good, but like a Belter from Ceres trying to survive in Earth’s gravity, trying to fit together the pieces of this puzzle was literally crushing me. I needed to find my Rosetta Stone…and not just for the dialects. To …
Compiling a list of every asteroid and comet disaster movie ever made is no easy feat. First, you need to identify potential candidates, then you have to watch them all, which can be a somewhat tougher job than finding them. Much like asteroids and comets themselves, there's a whole spectrum of content in these dramas, …
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Having watched all five seasons of the Amazon police drama Bosch, I was excited to find Season 6 arrive during the lockdown imposed on us due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ten minutes into the first episode and Bosch is called out to the Overlook at Lake Hollywood Park on a murder case. An abandoned 911 …
It's the end of the year and one particular tabloid newspaper is again warning us that it could soon be the end of the world — yes, asteroid 2019 AE3 is in our vicinity and the apocalypse is coming. In keeping with the tabloid drama, here's a link to IMPACT! — a compendium of all …
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Amazon TV's Goliath is back for a third instalment and after the two previous diverse offerings, none of us knew what to expect in Season 3. When Billy McBride in Season 1 said, “Ever since I took this case, weird shit is happening to me…”, well, that kind of weird has nothing on this. In …
More than 100 years have passed since the first film was shown in movie theatres that depicted a rock from space wreaking havoc on Earth—although in that case it was a comet rather than an asteroid making an impact. That movie, a silent black and white film called The End of the World, released in …
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When Season 2 of Amazon's gritty TV series Goliath was released, some viewers were at a loss—a different type of loss to some of the characters. Some viewers were gripped and others were up in arms, while some of the characters were relieved of theirs. Once I was able to uncover my eyes and prise …
As part of my scriptwriting aspirations, I was interested to understand how a hugely successful TV show knows right from the start what people will watch whilst making content unique. This led me to read drafts and pilot episode scripts of TV shows and I soon realised that those making these shows often don't get …
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This article looks at Season 1 of Goliath, Amazon's tremendous legal drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a struggling lawyer who is pitted against the powerful. The discussion compares the third draft pilot script for Goliath Season 1 entitled Trial dated 20 July 2015 and the pilot TV episode entitled Of Mice and …
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