• From Screen to Street: The Impact of TV Fashion on Real-Life Style Trends

    Everything we wear is based on something; we each hold our own styles and aesthetics. From thos
    fashion statements, which in hindsight, we wished had stayed out of the family photo albums. To the
    everyday pieces we wear again and again. This can be an unconscious pull to certain colours,
    fabrics or...
  • Reboots, Revivals and Reunions: Should Shows Return?

    Alice Bennett With the recent trend of capitalising on nostalgia, reboots of movies and TV shows have taken over our screens, with the Harry Potter reunion airing on the 1st of January. In particular, nostalgic TV shows of the 90’s and 2000’s have made a comeback – but is...
  • The Paradoxical Progressiveness Of The New ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot

    It should have been no surprise to anyone that the new 'Gossip Girl' reboot would have a focus on updating its social politics. Its predecessor debuted in 2007 to a very different social and political culture. However, is the show's 'woke' rebranding well-intentioned and something we want to see...
  • Gossip Girl Reboot – Is A Return To The Upper East Side Necessary?

    Amrit Virdi ‘’Hey Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite’’, may be one of the most iconic phrases in teen drama history. Based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl took the world by storm from...
  • From High Society To Lockdown Life: Are Bridgerton’s Gossip Columns Mirrored In Today’s Social Media?

    Talia Krais What’s on everyone’s lips at the moment. Well of course the new Netflix smash hit Bridgerton alongside the never-ending excitement of lockdown! Jealous of the social interactions taking place in groups bigger than six, viewers of Bridgerton live vicariously through the promenades and parties, royals and rakes,...
  • TV Review: Elite

    English Spanish show ‘Elite’ has hit the screens, and it has emerged to gain an elite status out of the newly added shows. Eight forty-five-minute episodes of highly executed thriller, but are there some familiar clichés? Like Riverdale, Elite is one of those shows that would grab our attention...
  • My life in phones: a brief history of technological memories

    Motorola clamshell, Nokia 1600 and Sony Ericsson k700 – a long lost generation of mobile phones that first introduced us to the technological world. Do you remember the initial excitement that pierced your heart when your fingers impatiently ripped the wrapping paper apart to reveal the one little piece...