THE X-FILES, 11.5 – ‘Ghouli’
[usr 3.5] The situation with Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) having a child together, which they gave up for adoption, formed part...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.13 – ‘What’s Past is Prologue’
[usr 4.5] The climax of Star Trek: Discovery’s extensive foray into the Mirror Universe ended on an explosive high, with levels of action and...
THE X-FILES, 11.4 – ‘The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat’
[usr 4.5] Darin Morgan was always a name to look out for in the credits of 1990s The X-Files, having penned many of the show’s...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.12 – ‘Vaulting Ambition’
[usr 4.0] A great magic trick is all about misdirection. While many had spotted the groundwork going into Star Trek: Discovery’s mid-season twist (that...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.6 – ‘Black Museum’
[usr 4.0] This final episode was longer than usual, although there were less feature-length instalments compared to the last series. “Black Museum” reminded me...
THE X-FILES, 11.3 – ‘Plus One’
[usr 3.5] Chris Carter delivers his first decent X-Files script in years, by doing something that doesn’t involve the tangled mythology and was instead...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.5 – ‘Metalhead’
[usr 3.0] Episode 5 is a bit of a departure for the current series of Black Mirror and feels more like a standalone short...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.11 – ‘The Wolf Inside’
[usr 4.0] The signposted twist with Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), that he’s actually Klingon “torchbearer” Voq, surgically altered to infiltrate the Federation, didn’t land...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.4 – ‘Hang the DJ’
[usr 4.5] Black Mirror isn’t known for positive, hopeful, or romantic stories, but last year’s “San Junipero” proved its cautionary tales about technology needn’t...
THE X-FILES, 11.2 – ‘This’
[usr 3.5] I didn’t hate last week’s premiere (although it was another convoluted mess of ideas about a government conspiracy nobody cares about), but...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.10 – ‘Despite Yourself’
[usr 4.0] There’s a compelling argument against doing a “Mirror Universe” episode of Star Trek: Discovery this early, as it’s less fun seeing bizarro...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.3 – ‘Crocodile’
[usr 3.0] I spend every episode of Black Mirror hunting for signs of a technology the story will revolve around, but “Crocodile” kept its...