Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
In its seventh episode, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries abandons the seemingly-unrelated cold open for a round at the pub with Bert. He's drinking it up with his war vet pals Thommo (Chris Davis) and Ronnie Cliff (Ben Prendergast). But tragedy strikes when Thommo is deliberately
Doctor Who
This week's Doctor Who begins in 1380, Aleppo, and Tahira (Aruhan Galieva) is rushing home. But the hospital where she lives it beset by alien creatures. She's tried to warn Maryam (Sirine Saba), but no one believes her, until its too late. Meanwhile, the Doctor has
Vienna Blood
Last week's Vienna Blood ended on the revelation that Reinhardt and Max are chasing a serial killer. They have some clues as to who it is already. He's a soldier, a nationalist, who is either part of or inspired by the Brotherhood of Primal Fire. His
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
In the sixth episod of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' first season, the cold open starts backstage at the play Miss Fisher is attending with Dot for her birthday, Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddygore (or The Witch's Curse). Actor Walter Copland (Peter Cousens), who stars
Culture
This year being 2020, means we have a Leap Year February. One whole extra day for viewers, one entire extra day for streaming services to bring us British content. From Netflix to PBS Passport, there are several new series arriving just in time to distract us from the endless election
Doctor Who
After Doctor Who's giant reveal of a new Doctor plus Jack Harness, this week starts out relatively calm. The opening feels like it should be the beginning of Seven Worlds, One Planet until a spacecraft suddenly crashes through the atmosphere. As the astronaut, Adam Lang (Matthew McNulty), desperately
Vienna Blood
At the end of Vienna Blood's first mystery, Max did the sensible thing and asked Clara to marry him. It's now a few months later, 1907, and Clara is being fitted for gown and veil while Max ponders whether or not love is real. (The legend
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
The fifth episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' cold open begins with a woman who better call Saul. He's fallen into an epileptic fit in the bookshop. As the woman, Miss Leigh (Kat Stewart), tells him to relax into it, the scene cuts away to
Doctor Who
This week's Doctor Who begins in Gloucester. Ruth Clayton (Jo Martin), a 44-year-old married woman, just woke up on her birthday. It's a typical workday for her, trying to convince tourists to take her tour, while the local barista, Allan (Michael Begley), tries to
Vienna Blood
The premiere episode of Vienna Blood ended on a cliffhanger. But this week doesn't pick up there. Instead, we open with Max called to the carpet by Professor Gruner, the head of the hospital, whose lectures viewers saw last week includes torturing women with "hysterics." He
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
The cold open of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' fourth episode features a poor Catholic girl being thrown in a room by a pair of nurses and the door firmly shut. As usual, it seems utterly disconnected from Miss Fisher, as she pulls her glorious car up through
Doctor Who
After nearly 60 years, Doctor Who finally gets around to visiting a historical figure which one would have thought would have turned up already: Nikola Tesla (Goran ViΕ‘njiΔ). The Serbian-American inventor was the father of A/C current, best known for his electrical and mechanical engineering inventions and his