BLACK MIRROR, 4.1 – ‘USS Callister’
The great thing about many Black Mirror stories is how they often have multiple layers, with even the concept appearing to be one thing...
2017: Favourites of the Year
While it’s customary to write ‘Best Of’ lists at the end of each year, the risk is that the more highbrow and arthouse movies...
2017: Disappointments of the Year
There seems little point in compiling a list of the worst television shows or films of 2017, as it would be stating the obvious...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
And so we bid farewell to Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor. A shame really, as Capaldi was not best served by his writers...
OUTLANDER, 3.13 – ‘Eye of the Storm’
And so another season of Outlander comes to a close. The finale, “Eye of the Storm”, is something of a mixed bag. It didn’t...
MARVEL’S THE PUNISHER – Season One
Marvel Television was in need of a success on Netflix after the disappointment of Iron Fist and lacklustre team-up The Defenders. Unfortunately, their latest...
OUTLANDER, 3.12 – ‘The Bakra’
For Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) to separate once, nay twice, in a season is rather a misfortune, but to be split...
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD – Season Three
While the world’s arguing over the future of The Walking Dead (all things Negan, and whether the show has lost the plot), spin-off Fear...
OUTLANDER, 3.11 – ‘Uncharted’
Remember how last week I referred to Marsali’s enforced shipboard conference with Claire in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander novel Voyager? It had seemed like a...
OUTLANDER, 3.9 & 3.10 – ‘The Doldrums’ & ‘Heaven and Earth’
“The Doldrums” and “Heaven and Earth” take the third season of Outlander off in a new direction. We see Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire...
MINDHUNTER – Season One
The work of former FBI special agent John Douglas revolutionised the Bureau, and by extension crime fiction. Douglas was a pioneer of criminal profiling...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.9 – ‘Into the Forest’
There’s a risk mid-season finales will disappoint because the narrative hasn’t built up enough steam, but “Into the Forest I Go” felt like a...