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Well, I've gone and fallen head over heels in love with Community and pretty much every character in it. It's a show I didn't see much of first time round, and since it released on Netflix last year it has received a new lease of life and a whole new fanbase, including me. One of the reasons its run on NBC (2009 - 2014) was dogged by low ratings (as well as being up against The Big Bang Theory in the US) was that internationally it was being shared and downloaded illegally. Oh the days when we had to wait up to two years in the UK for American shows! I'm sorry to say that this was how I ever saw the odd episode as I was seeing someone who downloaded it from bit torrents and it was part of a jumble with Parks and Recreation , Arrested Development and shows I didn't enjoy and can't remember the titles of. This was during my last PhD year so it's all a bit blurry, and if you know what I was researching, you'll know I needed escapism. And my goodness, is Co...

*Spoilers ahoy* I can’t remember how it came up in conversation, but himself indoors didn’t believe me that there had been a second X-Files movie. Although he watched the show when it was first broadcast, he has clearly never been an ‘X-phile’. His lack of awareness of the film is perhaps indicative of the show’s continuing cult status. Even when I informed him that my DVD copy was in our house, he remained sceptical. Upon returning home, I produced the undeniable evidence. He decided that it was the next film we should watch, so we did the following evening. We had to pause a few times so I could catch him up and explain a few in-jokes planted for the fans, e.g., why Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) share a bed, the pencils in the office ceiling, and so on.  It had been quite a while since I last viewed the film, probably not since I got the DVD when it came out, and some aspects niggle at me now that I’ve had critical distance from it and ...