Some high profile original and returning projects are coming soon to streaming services in your living room.
Amazon Prime Video
Due to premiere on 4 September 2020 this is the second eight-episode series of ‘The Boys’, focusing on a group of vigilantes whom fight back against a team of superheroes who reject the great responsibilities that come with great power. Marketed to the public as noble by the powerful corporation that owns them, the superheroes abuse their gifts in private in a fun twist on the Marvel and DC dominated cinema landscape where the superhuman are invariably guided by a strong moral compass. Already renewed for a third series, Karl Urban (Star Trek) and Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) lead the charge to bring the super-antiheroes to justice.
Netflix
For the 1975 film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, Louise Fletcher won the Oscar for the villainous Nurse Ratched. For the limited series ‘Ratched’, released on 18 September 2020, Sarah Paulson (Mrs. America) takes on the iconic character over seven episodes with Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), Judy Davis (Feud: Bette and Joan) and Sharon Stone (Casino) among many others in support. Following ‘The Politician’ and ‘Hollywood’, this is the latest project from Ryan Murphy with many more to follow.
Disney+
Also released on 4 September 2020, for a premium fee in favour of a traditional theatrical release due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, is the live-action remake of ‘Mulan’. While the original 1998 musical animation drew in over $300 million worldwide and received a direct-to-video follow up, despite multiple setbacks, a sequel to the 2020 version is already in the works.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
