![]() With a brilliant, dark, ’80s soundtrack, and fantastic acting from Malek and Christian Slater, Mr Robot – currently on hiatus after its stellar first season, and set to return in 2016 – was quite rightly considered one of the shows of the year.īased on award-winning Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, Humans arrived on-screen on both sides of the Atlantic this summer, with just eight episodes in the first season – a respectable size for binge-watching. The Sam Asmail show Mr Robot, though, has found itself counted among the very small number of TV shows that have been well-received for accuracy in not just the technology, but the culture, too.įollowing the exploits of Elliot Anderson (Rami Malek) – a security engineer by day and hacker by night – we see how someone who suffers with severe social anxieties and depression can unwittingly be drawn into an organisation that aims to take down the world’s largest corporation, E Corp. Invariably, what we see is a laughably inaccurate, if entertaining, idea of what’s involved. ![]() When it comes to the depiction of technology and hacking on TV, an audible groan usually goes up across the internet and among those in the know. The first thoroughly enjoyable season has just aired on Amazon Prime and, if its final moments are anything to go by, the second should be even better. While, in this alternate universe, technology has advanced to the level of space travel and supersonic flight by 1962, the horrors doled out to the citizens of the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States become apparent early on.įollowing Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) in Japanese-occupied San Francisco, and Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) in Nazi-occupied New York, the pair meet when helping resistance movements from the two imperial enclaves carry banned films depicting an alternate reality – our reality – to the mysterious Man in the High Castle. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! The Man in the High Castleīased on the much-loved Philip K Dick novel of the same name, The Man in the High Castle presents us with the horrifying scenario that the Nazis and the Japanese Empire were the victors of WWII, with the US subsequently invaded and divided between the two. So throw on your most comfortable onesie/pyjamas/tracksuit, curl up with your laptop and ignore your family, and we’ll see you on the other side. ![]() There comes a point when binge-watching is your only option.Īnd so, just in case you’ve missed any of these great sci-tech and sci-fi and just plain weird shows over the last months and years and decades, we’ve pulled together a list of shows that you could binge on – or at least start to binge on – over the holidays. ![]() There are only so many hours in the day, especially when you’re working full-time, so shows tend to stack up. The advent (if you’ll forgive the Christmassy pun) of streaming services like Netflix and Sky Go – as well as mankind’s seeming inability to get through a day without downloading things a little less than legally – has led to more TV than ever being available on demand.Īs such, there are more stellar shows on offer than any one person has enough time to watch. The holiday season has always been all about the binge – turkey, stuffing, chocolate… and now TV.īinge-watching is almost a requirement these days.
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