Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I never watched Lost, so I’m perhaps more tolerant having missed his ur-text. You would think the work would eventually shift to anxieties of fatherhood, as with the rest of popular culture. Funny that. 240
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s cliché stuff, but cliché stuff done honestly by good writers with genuine daddy issues, so I think it mostly landed for me. 141
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This episode made me want to see Eddie killed with hammers 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I do think regular not terminally online adults just don't know, or are encouraged not to care -- I still have relatives who rely on them to get their kids reading. This in a city where Joanne is actively funding court cases against important arts orgs. 100
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This season has used 'lore'/your knowldge of where it's going to such good extent -- dread dripping from every episode, a death march to an ending written before the game was even started. Ending on Helaena was perfect for this. 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What did you think of the first season? I bounced off it at the time, but I might give it another go if the second season is worth it. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026oof! I was really hoping they'd do more thematically with the punisher/spidey conflict. seems like there's a lot of good setup here that the film's afraid to deal with... still looking forward to hanging out with my good pal spider-man tho 020
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This would have been better in theory, but the best stuff with that character is tied to the abusive father figure he is to Daeron, and the fash anti-targ stuff makes that wayyty more interesting 150
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I do hope they're just hiding the ball here, and the resulting film is at least more interesting than what's been shown 111
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What’s annoying is that there is probably an interesting argument a conservative critic could make about this movie (this is a bleak vision of america, not an adaptation of a greek myth) but he isn’t making that! He’s being insane. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I do think it's down, unfortunately, to Matt Reeves seemingly being ill for the last few years... a real shame. 020
Reposted by DaraThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else. 181735622
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I do think you need to make the distinction here between your MAGA acolytes making art (artless, centre-less, no truth) and your more traditional American Centre-Conservative, who kind of had a stranglehold on the American arts since it began, which has produced plenty of good stuff because of it. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Also very fond of the Crucible — also prominently featuring ally Apocalypse (the best character move Marvel comics made in the last 15 years??) 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 17/05/2026He would be working for whatever corpo evil guy they have ruling britain... like smart henchman, not quite second in command, scheming, justifying it to himself as it helps him stop some awful demon stuff. 020
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 16/05/2026A bit fusty, disappointed in a lot of the individual author's top tens. You telling me they couldn't throw a few wildcards in there? Of exposing their weirder tastes? Where's the freak flags these days. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Loved the dossier this week, as I have every week — what an amazing moment they got with Bridges!! It’s crazy that you can feel that depth of performance in the ending of the film there 110
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Oh yeah i also have one of the worst senses of humour on the planet so I’m fully onboard 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 09/04/2026It's strange watching the new Daredevil show and feel the writers trying to make the show about something with two hands tied behind their back. They can set up complicated drama, but they're contractually unable to write the scenes that would demonstrate it. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 09/04/2026a guy with one of the worst senses of humour the world's ever seen and an immensely keen and sensitive sense of good and evil - an utter cynic but a sentimentalist all the same. wonderful writer. 130
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I also think the subtext of her kid hangs heavy over the mother with cancer as well. Subtext and character knowledge doing a lot of wonderful things for her. 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 25/03/2026absolutly loving this new dynamic -- gives bruce so many more dimensions 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I do think part of the show’s juice is that Walt is a monster who sucks, and yet still is also occasionally very cool. The tension’s why we keep watching! 000
Reposted by DaraThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026We should all welcome the renewed attention being paid to the UK's student loan crisis. But we must remember it's a scandal the Tories created, and which they deserve no praise for cynically, and incoherently, adopting as their cause. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...newstatesman.comTory grandstanding about student loans isn't helping anyoneEveryone remembers the Conservative Party created this system 117937
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I want to play in the glass sand plains and get cut tf up 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You should read Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection. This kinda stuff's allll over that. 121
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Little Simz really should have been in the Best Original Song race with 'Don't Leave Too Soon', an absolute banger from the vastly underrated Steve 100
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Michael B Jordan the second ever actor to be oscar-nominated for a vampiric role, after Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire. Why do I know these things? 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Ever see a trailer and go ‘that casting director’s seen all the same tv shows as me’? 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Industry — a show with no subtext for an industry, and a world, with no subtext 100
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Emotionally revelatory flashbacks belong to the cold open, and the cold open alone! 041
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 07/11/2025This has been happening on RTÉ for like five years. Constant calls to 'have the debate'. What's the debate, guys? Want to expand a little? 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The whole shambolic race has been a huge embarrassment when the real goal of this election should have been a global demonstration of a civil democratic process — here’s how you do it world — considering how low the actual stakes are. Connolly’s the only one who’s come out looking decent. 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Considering Connolly looks like she’s about to win Saturday, Fine Gael and Humphries desperate attacks on her will just damage the office they’re seeking to hold. The presidency is symbolic — besmirching the leading candidate just hurts everyone. 140
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I’m like five films behind on my letterboxd, what will my two friends who care do?!? 010
