HUMANS – series one, episode eight
[usr 3.0] Had this been the last episode of Humans ever, it would be easier to be more vitriolic about the ways it disappointed me,...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.7 – ‘Black Maps and Motel Rooms’
[usr 4.0] Among the many problems I have with season two of True Detective, probably the main one is the show’s insistence on writing...
HANNIBAL, 3.8 – ‘The Great Red Dragon’
[usr 4.5] Let’s start with the most unmistakably meta moment in “The Great Red Dragon,” which occurs when Dr. Chilton (Raúl Esparza) visits the...
HUMANS – series one, episode seven
[usr 4.0] Well, Humans certainly isn’t dragging its heels now, is it? Unsurprising, perhaps, given that this is the penultimate episode, but the level...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.6 – ‘Church in Ruins’
[usr 3.0] If the first season of True Detective felt like the work of a TV writer who’d read far too many novels (with its...
HANNIBAL, 3.7 – ‘Digestivo’
[usr 4.5] As Hannibal has always been at its best when it walks a fine line between high art and pulp, any episode that...
HUMANS – series one, episode six
[usr 4.5] Where last week’s episode felt like a holding episode, part six of Humans was packed with incident, both physical and emotional, and...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.5 – ‘Other Lives’
[usr 2.5] “It’s never too late to start all over again.” How very true Ani (Rachel McAdams)—although, in the case of this season’s True...
PENNY DREADFUL – Season Two
[usr 4.0] Penny Dreadful’s second season opener “Fresh Hell” effectively restates the show’s modus operandi. The snowbound confrontation between its two female leads, Vanessa Ives (Eva Green,...
HUMANS – series one, episode five
[usr 3.0] Week five of Humans is very much a holding episode, but that’s not to say it doesn’t boast some knock-out scenes. Principal...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.4 – ‘Down Will Come’
[usr 3.5] We’re half way through this second season of True Detective, and one of my biggest problems remains the constant line it walks between...
HANNIBAL, 3.6 – ‘Dolce’
[usr 5] “If I saw you every day, forever, I’d remember this time.” That could be a line from, say, The Notebook, but it’s actually...