[VIDEO] "Violent Delights": Celebrating the Best of TV in 2016
2016 may have been a huge burning garbage of a year in real life, but it's been a great year for television.
In order to celebrate the best of TV in 2016, I made the following supercut of some of our favourite shows and significant moments on screen this year (SPOILERS, obviously):
Featured Shows:
Game of Thrones
Orange is the New Black
Veep
Silicon Valley
The Get Down
The Crown
Bojack Horseman
Stranger Things
Halt and Catch Fire
The Night Of
Daredevil
This is Us
Black Mirror
Penny Dreadful
Mr Robot
You're The Worst
Westworld
Gilmore Girls
American Crime Story
House of Cards
Featured shows accidentally left off the list in the video:
The OA and Steven Universe
Did we miss your favourite show? Let us know how wrong or right we are in the comments below!
F1’s is an immersive, muscular melodrama about an aging race car driver who’s still got it. Well, he’s got his problems too.
Lighting, pyrotechnics, and early 2000s pop music are playfully woven together to immerse us in a theatrical montage of a drunken night out, where the tea is spilt and old resentments are finally laid bare.
Tightly scripted and well-paced, this is a consistent romp which knows when to circle…and when to bite.
Cackles and shrieks of delight could be heard throughout the film, and I left the cinema smiling, eyes scanning the footpath for handsome strangers.
The satirical musical returns bigger and bolder, running from May 27 - June 14 as part of the main Blue Room Theatre season, with sharper tweaks and a fresh ensemble cast.
Anyone who’s been paying attention in the past 5 years will have noticed that the Irish music community has developed to be one of the most influential scenes of this generation. We’ve seen some fantastic artists along the lines of Fontaines D.C, Kneecap, The Murder Capital and Gurriers, rise to prevalence in recent years however indie rockers Inhaler are arguably the cream of the crop.
While Anderson’s movies are not for everyone due to their twee nature, unconventional exposition and storytelling, the charm of the movie is undeniable.
The Surfer is one hell of a trip, one that plunges relentlessly into the weird tide of madness.
How do you make sense of a life pummeled by love and loss? Blue, the latest production by Black Swan State Theatre, asks us to plunge, heart-first, into this question.