Chris Flackett is a writer for 25YL who loves Twin Peaks, David Lynch, great absurdist literature and listens to music like he's breathing oxygen. He lives in Manchester, England with his beautiful wife, three kids and the ghosts of Manchester music history all around him.
*Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first episode of the third season of Dark. Continue at your own risk!* After much anticipation, the third and final season of Dark has finally arrived, being available to stream on Netflix from June 27th. If you’ve forgotten where the second season left us, we’ve got you covered […] More
If post-punk found its perfect expression in the long-playing record, punk before it found its way through the single. Noisy, energetic, excitable, chaotic and aggressive by nature, the first wave of British punk music acted as if each of its songs was the only chance to say everything they had to say, giving itself an […] More
In hindsight, 2008-2010 was a miserable time for me. Not the cheeriest opening to an article, I know, but stick with me. I’ve come to bring you inspiration. Back then, between the ages of 22 and 25, the mental health issues that had wrought their way with me since I was 16 were arguably at […] More
Regardless of what you might think of Morrissey and his politics nowadays, the music of The Smiths still stands as a testament to the brilliance, and also the loneliness of outsiderdom. A man ill at ease at the modernising of his beloved Northern English world, Morrissey was able to keep it alive in his songs—imbuing […] More
In the early seventies, awash in the hangover of the previous decade, the world of cultural transaction was a world of blue denim and unwashed beards. Earthiness and so-called authenticity ruled the day. It’s not that there weren’t good albums being made – Who’s Next, Sticky Fingers and Meddle immediately come to mind – but […] More
So, here we are. We’ve finally arrived at Westworld S3E8, the finale of Westworld’s third season. It’s been a curious season. Personally, I’ve enjoyed it more than the second season but not as much as the first, which is still my favourite by a considerable stretch. What this season got right, in general, was to […] More
Last week on Westworld, we were given hints that William and Caleb have an unexpected link involving the AR therapy under the control of everybody’s new favourite villain, Serac. But when did Caleb come into Serac’s orbit? And what does that mean for Caleb? In an uncharacteristic rush to show its cards, the penultimate episode […] More
Public Enemy, as their fans are already aware, are innovators, radicals and politicised artists, using rap music in the same way the likes of the painter Basquiat and Dark Magus-era Miles Davis used their respective modernist art forms to equally confront and entertain their respective audiences, using their art to promote pro-black issues and pushing […] More
Most avid television viewers can rattle off a list of their favorite shows. Many of us can take that list and narrow it down to a few classic shows that will stand the test of time to us. Then, there’s that next layer of obsessives who take things a little bit further and examine their […] More
Last week, we got an insight into the motivators and drives behind our favourite new supervillain, Serac, and we also got to see the beginning of all hell breaking loose as Dolores released everyone’s Incite profile to their smart technology, giving them a true glimpse into what sort of controls are lain upon their lives. […] More
Last week, Serac gave us a glimpse of the larger history of the world our characters inhabit, showing us a smoking, decimated Paris. This week, in Westworld S3E5, he starts to connect the dots between the destruction of his home and the building of Rehoboam and in the process demonstrates that he might be exactly […] More
Last week, we were pondering the identity crisis of Charlotte Hale, and who exactly her body was hosting. On the first point, Westworld S3E4 kind of undoes all the good work they laid down. However, they more than delivered on the second point. That’s right; after previous criticisms of the show’s mysteries being obliquely rendered, […] More
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