HANNIBAL, 3.3 – ‘Secondo’
[usr 4.0] It’s become inevitable for most popular franchises to eventually turn to a prequel or reboot that fills in the details of their...
GAME OF THRONES – Season Five
Warning: this review contains major spoilers for HBO’s Game of Thrones, not just the fifth season, so it’s recommend you don’t read until you’ve seen up...
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D – Season Two
[usr 3.5] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D occupies a unique position within Marvel’s expanding “cinematic universe”, in that it aims to be related to the movies, but...
HUMANS – series one, episode one
[usr 4.0] In the alternate present depicted in AMC/Channel 4’s Humans, the world’s almost indistinguishable from our own, with one key difference: despite technology...
HANNIBAL, 3.2 – ‘Primavera’
[usr 4.0] While “Primavera” isn’t as strong as last week’s season premiere, it deserves special notice for offering one of the freakiest images so...
HANNIBAL, 3.1 – ‘Antipasto’
[usr 4.5] “Let it be a fairy tale, then. Once upon a time…” And with that, we’re thrust back into the strange, gruesome, often...
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season One
[usr 4.0] The Office‘s Ellie Kemper is utterly fantastic in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, playing the eponymous heroine rescued from a doomsday cult, having spent...
SHERLOCK HOLMES (BBC, 1965-68)
[usr 4.5] In the pantheon of celebrated Sherlock Holmes adaptations there is one BBC television series that tends to get overlooked. In 1965 the...
DAREDEVIL – Season One
[usr 5.0] The first of Netflix’s quartet of Marvel-produced comic-book dramas, Daredevil wisely introduces the character closest to being a household name—although The Man Without Fear’s...
BLOODLINE – Season One
[usr 3.5] Created by the troika behind FX’s legal thriller Damages—Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman—Netflix’s Bloodline is a very different show on the surface,...