TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.1 – ‘The Western Book of the Dead’
Hello everyone, and welcome to the second season of True Detective (a.k.a the one where Nic Pizzolatto tries to pre-empt his critics by having his...
HUMANS – series one, episode two
With its second instalment, Humans consolidates its position as television’s premier slice of intelligent science fiction, and continues to intrigue and unsettle. Even after two...
SENSE8 – Season One
Having invigorated sci-fi action with 1999’s The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski have struggled to match their cyberpunk sensation. Two inferior sequels followed in 2003,...
HANNIBAL, 3.3 – ‘Secondo’
It’s become inevitable for most popular franchises to eventually turn to a prequel or reboot that fills in the details of their characters’ origin...
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
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 separate from...
HUMANS – series one, episode one
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 being roughly...
HANNIBAL, 3.2 – ‘Primavera’
While “Primavera” isn’t as strong as last week’s season premiere, it deserves special notice for offering one of the freakiest images so far, in...
HANNIBAL, 3.1 – ‘Antipasto’
“Let it be a fairy tale, then. Once upon a time…” And with that, we’re thrust back into the strange, gruesome, often beautiful world...
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season One
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 fifteen years...
SHERLOCK HOLMES (BBC, 1965-68)
In the pantheon of celebrated Sherlock Holmes adaptations there is one BBC television series that tends to get overlooked. In 1965 the BBC produced...
DAREDEVIL – Season One
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 last mainstream...