TV Archives – The College View

Can a Netflix series do justice for Assassin’s Creed ?

November 25, 2020

The announcement of Netflix’s new Assassin’s Creed series raised speculation of the adaptation, following the poorly received 2016 film.

The Umbrella Academy season two brings us back to the sixties

August 21, 2020

The dysfunctional superhero family have graced our screens once again, with season 2 of The Umbrella Academy streaming on Netflix this month in ten episodes.

Down to Earth with Zac Efron

July 21, 2020

In his new Netflix mini-series “Down to Earth”, Zac Efron travels the Americas, and Europe on a quest to find sustainable, and healthy ways to live.

Netflix shows we lost to the algorithm

March 16, 2020

Netflix algorithms have the miraculous ability to predict what we want to watch. Re-occurring themes in what we choose to watch has a ripple effect on what the streaming service will then recommend. And for the most part, they get it right.

Streaming killed the video star

December 11, 2019

The move to online streaming platforms such as Netflix/Amazon Prime and the use of social media apps, has had an astronomical effect on the amount of viewers abandoning traditional TV broadcasting.

The best TV shows you missed in 2019

November 27, 2019

There is often talk of how much the TV landscape has changed in the past decade or so as creators embrace the shift towards streaming, A-list star vehicles and the impact of the short-form limited series.

“Marianne” brings French horror to a modern audience

November 27, 2019

Released back in September, “Marianne” is a French Netflix original series that serves as a triumph for horror.

RTE’s troubles are not due to people evading licence fees but RTE evading quality programming

November 27, 2019

The reason for this is that RTE never actually jumped into the 21st century and still relies heavily on the nostalgia of shows

Life in the apocalypse is just what you would expect in Netflix’s “Daybreak”

November 13, 2019

What’s life like in the apocalypse? According to Daybreak, it’s like a mash-up between Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Mad Max.

Arrested Development suffers its namesake

April 17, 2019

Arrested Development will not see a sixth season. Will anyone care?

Netflix’s Madeleine McCann documentary falls short of expectations

April 17, 2019

The aspect that predominantly jumped out to Netflix viewers, was that the McCann’s themselves played no part in the documentary.

Do true crime shows and docuseries affect ongoing cases?

April 3, 2019

Yes, true crime documentaries offer an insight into the cases and the facts, but they also have created a trend of avid fans taking the law into their own hands. The perfect example of this is with the Steven Avery case whereby one of his prosecutors has had his car shot at, and packages explode in his office.

Bye Bye, Big Bang

February 18, 2019

Common theories date the Big Bang, which sparked our universe into existence, to 13.7 billion years ago. For many of us, it feels like impossibly-popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory has been on the air

The atypical portrayals of autism on TV

December 12, 2018

Sheldon himself denies being autistic, stating “My mother had me tested.” And yet: Obsessive behaviors. Social dysfunction. Regressive tendencies. Inability to grasp subtext and sarcasm. Avoidance of physical contact. Anxiety. Scientific savantism.

Will Black Mirror’s choose-your-own-adventure episode create a trend?

October 17, 2018

The concept of ‘choose your own adventure’ has been tried and tested for years in video games and has found to be very successful. Generally referred to as roleplaying games or RPGs, players are taken on a journey from building their own character to choosing how they handle difficult situations and how their decisions ultimately change their character’s fate.