TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 5 & 6’
With “Part 5” of Twin Peaks: The Return we learn more about the web of terror created by the now incarcerated Mr. C, the...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.9 – ‘Fall’
For a penultimate episode, “Fall” didn’t feel like one. The big storyline was something harking back to the Sandpiper case from Better Call Saul’s...
THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975)
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming-of-age and growing into old age in conservative England.
DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
If this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day with this...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
American Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.8 — ‘Slip’
This was a deceptively clever episode, helping connect some dots between the present-day Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his Slippin’ Jimmy days back in...
THE LEFTOVERS, 3.8 — ‘The Book of Nora’
This wasn’t what I imagined the series finale of The Leftovers would be, but that’s a compliment. Considering showrunner Damon Lindelof’s repeated quote that...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.8 – ‘The Lie of the Land’
There’s a line in this week’s Doctor Who, “The Lie of the Land”, that made me smile. It was a smile in recognition that...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.5 – ‘Lemon Scented You’
All the various and previously disconnected strands of American Gods’ core narrative are beginning to come together. Unlike last week’s excellent but unusual episode,...
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 4’
After the surreal absurdities of “Part 3”, “Part 4” of Twin Peaks: The Return is much more accessible. It’s not without its bizarre set-pieces,...
THE LEFTOVERS, 3.7 — ‘The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)’
A follow-up to season 2’s “International Assassin”, The Leftovers’ penultimate hour was another imaginative and engrossing piece of television drama, albeit but one that...
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 3’
Having truly confounded his audience, many of whom were aching to see the quirky, cutesy, soap opera pastiche version of Twin Peaks they loved...