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His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 3 ‘Theft’

November 24, 2020

Episode 2 Spoilers Theft The first few minutes of Theft is crammed with disparate story threads. The episode opens with Serafina addressing the witches of Lake Enara, vowing revenge on the Magisterium, but wa... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 2 ‘The Cave’

Olga Hughes

November 19, 2020

Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode 2 Spoilers The Cave When Will and Lyra’s stories were separate in Season One, the children seemed a little too grown-up. Now that Lyra and Will’s paths have merged, there finally seems to be a rea... Read More...

Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: ‘The Shadow of the Tower’ Watch-along and Discussion

Olga Hughes

November 12, 2020

Film & TV, History

The recently formed 'James Maxwell and The Shadow of the Tower' Facebook group will be holding its first The Shadow of the Tower watch-along and weekly discussions, starting from next week. First broadcast by t... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 1 ‘City of Magpies’

Olga Hughes

November 10, 2020

Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode 1 Spoilers The City of Magpies Jack Thorne always allows his empathy to shine through in his writing. Over the last few years, the UK government have been doggedly dragging the country back into a Dic... Read More...

Sanditon: Why We Need Season Two

Olga Hughes

November 5, 2020

Film & TV

Back in 2018, when it was announced that the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon would be penned by veteran screenwriter Andrew Davies, The Guardian demanded to know how it “would stand up... Read More...

Who’s Afraid of Anne Boleyn?

Olga Hughes

October 31, 2020

Film & TV, History

Recently I saw a meme aimed at history nerds making fun of ‘social justice warriors’. I’ll laugh all day long at the memes featuring peasants asking for gluten-free bread, but this one struck me as strange, and... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’

Olga Hughes

December 29, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode 8 Spoilers Betrayal If there was one episode this season that was an almost perfect adaptation of the source material, then Betrayal was it. We saw plenty of dialogue from the books, dæmons on-screen,... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 7 ‘The Fight to the Death’

Olga Hughes

December 21, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode 7 Spoilers The Fight to the Death There is no way of getting around the fact that, for book fans at least, episodes six and seven of His Dark Materials have been a little underwhelming, and that expla... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 6 ‘The Daemon-Cages’

Olga Hughes

December 11, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode Six Spoilers The Daemon-Cages Philip Pullman once said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.” Northern L... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Five ‘The Lost Boy’

Olga Hughes

December 5, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode 5 Spoilers The Lost Boy Who is the ‘lost boy’? Titled for chapter twelve of Northern Lights, in which Lyra discovers what horrifying experiments the Oblation Board has been carrying out on children, T... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Four ‘Armour’

Olga Hughes

November 27, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode Four Spoilers Armour We’re now four episodes in, and Armour revealed some small flaws in the thus-far polished veneer of His Dark Materials. Lee Scoresby, however, is not one of those. Lee will always... Read More...

His Dark Materials: On Gyptians

Olga Hughes

November 24, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

The Gyptians of Philip Pullman’s ‘Brytain’ and the wider world were introduced in the first episode of His Dark Materials by way of a newly-seen coming-of-age ceremony. The community came together to celebrate ... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Three ‘The Spies’

Olga Hughes

November 20, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode Three Spoilers The Spies For an episode that took place over a handful of days in even fewer locations, The Spies has been the most revelatory episode thus far. We are now entirely involved with the G... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Two ‘The Idea of the North’

Olga Hughes

November 13, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode Two Spoilers The Idea of the North In his lecture 'The Writer’s Responsibility', Philip Pullman quotes film director and playwright David Mamet, who says the basic storytelling question is ‘Where do I... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode One ‘Lyra’s Jordan’

Olga Hughes

November 5, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

Episode One Spoilers Lyra's Jordan If, as a book fan, you had any reservations about His Dark Materials, the opening episode Lyra’s Jordan should have succeeded in smashing them. I had been completely confide... Read More...

His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: ‘The Golden Compass’ and Pre-Show Thoughts

Olga Hughes

November 3, 2019

Books, Film & TV, His Dark Materials

The following is spoiler-free but references themes from the His Dark Materials book trilogy. The Golden Compass has its twelve year anniversary coming up shortly. I first saw it on its Boxing Day release in A... Read More...

The Nuns Of Discontinuity & Daredevil’s Incredible Nipples Of Doom

C S Hughes

October 22, 2018

Film & TV

Look, I enjoy Marvel's explorations of the contemporary American idiom as much as anyone. It's kind of a guilty pleasure, because I generally disapprove of extreme violence and the Military Technological Nexus ... Read More...