WESTWORLD, 2.1 – ‘Journey into Night’
byTelevision adaptations will often take a different approach to the movies or books they’re based on. Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) completed its story in…
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JESSICA JONES, 2.12 & 2.13 – ‘AKA Pray for My Patsy’ & ‘AKA Playland’
by“AKA Pray for My Patsy” As mentioned previously, the second season of Jessica Jones has suffered from pacing issues, with whole episodes dedicated to…
JESSICA JONES, 2.10 & 2.11 – ‘AKA Pork Chop’ & ‘AKA Three Lives and Counting’
by“AKA Pork Chop” ‘Everyone has a hidden agenda’ is our theme in “AKA Pork Chop”, undoubtedly one of the weakest and most frustrating episodes…
JESSICA JONES, 2.8 & 2.9 – ‘AKA Ain’t We Got Fun’ & ‘AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed’
by“AKA Ain’t We Got Fun” Something I never thought I’d say: Jessica Jones is becoming too ‘Marvel’. In “AKA Ain’t We Got Fun”, we see…
THE AVENGERS – ‘Tunnel of Fear’
by“Tunnel of Fear” is the 20th episode of the first series of the 1960s British TV series The Avengers, and one of only three known complete series 1 episodes to have survived original broadcast…
JESSICA JONES, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘AKA Facetime’ & ‘AKA I Want Your Cray Cray’
by“AKA Facetime” Halfway through season one, Jessica Jones threw audiences for a loop with Kilgrave’s (David Tennant) creepy purchase of Jessica’s (Krysten Ritter) childhood…
Report: The UK Premiere of AMC’s THE TERROR from the Royal Geographical Society in London
byAlex Mullane attended the UK premiere of AMC’s new historical suspense drama THE TERROR, and reported back on the event and his first impressions…
JESSICA JONES, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘AKA God Help the Hobo’ & ‘AKA The Octopus’
by“AKA God Help the Hobo” It seems like our eponymous heroine has learnt the advantage of speaking out and having a team behind her…
THE X-FILES, 11.10 – ‘My Struggle IV’
byWhile nowhere near as shambolic as season 10’s finale, “My Struggle IV” was still a disappointing end to The X-Files — perhaps forever? Although without Gillian…
JESSICA JONES, 2.2 & 2.3 – ‘AKA Freak Accident’ & ‘AKA Sole Survivor’
byJust as we were talking about new characters being introduced slowly, Jessica Jones throws us multiple curveballs in the second and third episodes of…
JESSICA JONES, 2.1 — ‘AKA Start at the Beginning’
byIt’s been over two years since Jessica Jones debuted on Netflix, and a little under a year since the character joined The Defenders for…
THE X-FILES, 11.9 – ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
byGiven the title and its position as the penultimate episode, ahead of a finale that’ll further entangled us with riddles and nonsense, “Nothing Lasts…