THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
[usr 3.0] “Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has...
THE OA – Season One
[usr 2.0] I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
[usr 3.5] “Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that...
GIRLS – Season Five
[usr 3.5] HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be...
SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
[usr 3.5] If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed...
SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
[usr 4.5] Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.3 – ‘Travelers’
[usr 4.0] The third episode, “Travelers”, shows the main characters undergoing a transformation as each heads off in a separate direction. While this is...
SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
[usr 4.0] As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a...
6 to See this January
What new movies and television shows are most deserving of your attention this month? Our editor, Dan Owen, selects his top six choices for UK audiences…
2016’s Film & TV: Our Favourites & Disappointments
To end 2016, some of our writers have compiled their favourite and most disappointing TV shows or movies...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’
[usr 3.5] “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is, as Steven Moffat has acknowledged, an homage to the superhero comics of his youth, and particularly...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.2 – ‘The Road Less Traveled’
[usr 4.0] There’s a very welcome injection of pace in “The Road Less Traveled”, the second episode of The Man in the High Castle’s...