PREACHER – Season Three
AMC’s Preacher is a show where quality varies from arc to arc, episode to episode. Some moments were well-acted and poignant, others distasteful or,...
CROW’S BLOOD – Series One
Horror doesn’t end after Halloween! One unlikely source of more spooky entertainment is All4, which currently grants you access to the Walter Presents collection...
THE CROWN – Season Two
Season 2 of The Crown will forever be known as the time the Royals got racy. It begins in 1957, continuing to blend the...
MANIAC (Netflix, 2018)
Maniac isn’t a hard show to understand. It also doesn’t have the most original of sci-fi ideas, being about two people who take drugs...
VANITY FAIR (ITV, 2018)
After losing her teaching job, orphan Becky Sharp convinces kindly school-friend Amelia to take her in, then promptly sets about ensnaring Amelia's wealthy but oafish brother...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.10 – ‘Winner’
Singing siblings. We opened on a touching flashback that gave us another welcome chance to see Chuck (Michael McKean), during the time when Jimmy...
BOJACK HORSEMAN – Season Five
The fifth season of BoJack Horseman finds the titular washed-up actor on the road to recovery, of sorts. He’s working again, on a moody...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.9 – ‘Wiedersehen’
Taking and making plans. Having enjoyed herself with the con to keep Huell from doing time, the opening of “Wiedersehen” involved another scam. Kim (Rhea...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.8 – ‘Coushatta’
A good defence is a good offence. The opening scenes of “Coushatta” confused me, making me forget where things had left off in “Something Stupid”....
IRON FIST – Season Two
The first season of Iron Fist was plagued with issues: it had too many villains, too little character development, terrible action scenes, a lack...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.7 – ‘Something Stupid’
Splitting up. Famed for its excellent cold opens, Better Call Saul offered up the best one in a long time with the split-screen sequence...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.6 – ‘Piñata’
For your consideration. We’ve been getting more flashbacks than usual this season, although I’m not sure all of them are particularly revelatory. “Piñata” opened...