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...
OUTLANDER, 3.8 – ‘First Wife’
By taking young Ian (John Bell) back to Lallybroch, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) may have assumed their troubles were over for...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.8 — ‘Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum’
While Star Trek: Discovery was initially keen to differentiate itself from previous Star Trek series, recent episodes have been more customary. And it’s fun...
OUTLANDER, 3.7 – ‘Crème de Menthe’
Outlander is often a curious beast. After six episodes of well-crafted, character-driven drama, full of resonance and emotion, its makers suddenly realise they’ve got...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.7 – ‘Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad’
I’m sure a lot of people were overjoyed with this episode, which epitomised classic Star Trek in many ways. It’s only right that Star...
OUTLANDER, 3.6 – ‘A. Malcolm’
After a short break, Outlander returns and finally relieves the pressure from the teasing climax of “Freedom and Whisky”, in which Jamie Fraser (Sam...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.6 – ‘Lethe’
It’s been interesting to consider other opinions of Star Trek: Discovery, now we’re deeper enough into the first season to make some valid judgement...