I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Frame Rated; a freelance writer and erstwhile MSN TV critic, who's worked for Digital Spy, What Culture, AICN, and others. I also maintain a long-running personal blog, Dan's Media Digest, and can usually be found procrastinating on Twitter or podcasting at Vampire Videos.
Amazingly, it’s been two years since The OA premiered with eight ambitious but often maddening instalments. Created by indie filmmaker Zal Batmanglij and actress...
It’s a common writing device, on the eve of action-packed instalments, to renew an audience’s love and understanding of the characters involved. “A Knight...
In an attempt to colonise Mars, scientists seed the planet with algae to absorb sunlight and purify the atmosphere, but 500 years later the first manned mission to the planet encounter an unexpected threat on the surface...
After last week’s flat time-filler, season 2’s penultimate episode, “Such Sweet Sorrow”, also delays gratification - even taking us into the end credits on an agonising...
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
Last week’s “The Red Angel” ended with a cool surprise: that the eponymous time-travelling enigma is Michael’s (Sonequa Martin-Green) not-actually-dead mother—identified here as Dr...
