The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur News and Links for Easter Monday

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 15: (L-R) Zinzi Evans and Ryan Coogler attend the Governors Ball for the 98th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by John Shearer/98th Oscars/Getty Images The Academy via Getty Images) | Getty Images The Academy via Get Kia ora! Matty Flatt, your Kiwi Carty Free staffer here, taking over the Hoddle today – and I am excited!

Why, you ask? I have just heard that Ryan Coogler (of Black Panther and Sinners fame) is producing an Animorphs TV Series for Disney+. Spoiler alerts incoming for a 30-year-old book series, but Animorphs was a core part of my childhood.

Immediately hooked by cover visuals of kids turning into animals, I eventually had a bookcase filled with the entire series by my early teens: 54 regular series books (each from the perspective of one of the characters), 4 Megamorphs books (which had chapters from each character’s perspective), 4 Chronicles books (spin-offs outside of the main series continuity that added to the lore), and 2 Alteranimorphs books (non-canon Choose Your Own Adventure style). And looking back, I wonder how I was ever allowed to read them. My parents probably just saw the fun transformation covers; what they didn’t see were the pages filled by teenagers battling a covert alien invasion by “morphing” into animals, complete with themes of body horror, cult indoctrination, the brutality of war, suicide, genocide… and I could go on.

Amongst the pre-teen prose, jokes, and 90’s pop-culture references were deep character studies in what a guerilla war could do to young minds. Were the readers part of that study? So given these books were a huge part of my adolescent years, I AM excited by the announcement of a TV show in development; but also VERY nervous, for a couple of reasons.