BLACK MIRROR, 4.2 – ‘Arkangel’
[usr 3.5] Black Mirror is in an unenviable position. While the first couple of series were well received on Channel 4, it was really...
THE X-FILES, 11.1 – ‘My Struggle III’
[usr 3.0] When The X-Files returned to TV in 2016 (eight years after X-Files: I Want to Believe, fourteen years since it was cancelled...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.1 – ‘USS Callister’
[usr 4.0] The great thing about many Black Mirror stories is how they often have multiple layers, with even the concept appearing to be...
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’
[usr 3.0] And so we bid farewell to Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor. A shame really, as Capaldi was not best served by...
OUTLANDER, 3.13 – ‘Eye of the Storm’
[usr 3.0] And so another season of Outlander comes to a close. The finale, “Eye of the Storm”, is something of a mixed bag....
MARVEL’S THE PUNISHER – Season One
[usr 2.5] Marvel Television was in need of a success on Netflix after the disappointment of Iron Fist and lacklustre team-up The Defenders. Unfortunately,...
OUTLANDER, 3.12 – ‘The Bakra’
[usr 3.0] For Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) to separate once, nay twice, in a season is rather a misfortune, but to...
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD – Season Three
[usr 4.0] While the world’s arguing over the future of The Walking Dead (all things Negan, and whether the show has lost the plot),...
OUTLANDER, 3.11 – ‘Uncharted’
[usr 3.5] Remember how last week I referred to Marsali’s enforced shipboard conference with Claire in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander novel Voyager? It had seemed...
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...