WESTWORLD, 2.5 – ‘Akane no Mai’
[usr 3.5] Having been teased during season 1’s finale, in “Akane no Mai” we finally enter Shogun World, with far greater emphasis on story...
WESTWORLD, 2.4 – ‘The Riddle of the Sphinx’
[usr 4.0] While enjoyable, this season of Westworld’s lacked the compelling mystery and pleasurable sense of discovery the first year’s episodes delivered in spades....
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND – Season Three
[usr 5.0] Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has grown by so many leaps and bounds since its first season back in 2015. When it premiered, this was...
WESTWORLD, 2.3 – ‘Virtù e Fortuna’
[usr 3.0] If you’ve been wondering where that dead Bengal tiger came from, “Virtù e Fortuna” is quick to confirm it arrived from a...
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season Two
[usr 5.0] Season 1 of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was a dark and campy delight for Netflix, one that kept the...
WESTWORLD, 2.2 – ‘Reunion’
[usr 3.5] The second season of Westworld continues with “Reunion”, an instalment that predictably finds many characters being reacquainted, while broadening the scope of...
MR. ROBOT – Season Three
[usr 4.0] I have an interesting relationship with Mr Robot. Unlike Game of Thrones or Westworld, where I’m desperate for the next season to...
WESTWORLD, 2.1 – ‘Journey into Night’
[usr 3.5] Television adaptations will often take a different approach to the movies or books they’re based on. Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) completed its...
JESSICA JONES, 2.12 & 2.13 – ‘AKA Pray for My Patsy’ & ‘AKA Playland’
“AKA Pray for My Patsy” [usr 4.0] As mentioned previously, the second season of Jessica Jones has suffered from pacing issues, with whole episodes...
JESSICA JONES, 2.10 & 2.11 – ‘AKA Pork Chop’ & ‘AKA Three Lives and Counting’
“AKA Pork Chop” [usr 1.5] ‘Everyone has a hidden agenda’ is our theme in “AKA Pork Chop”, undoubtedly one of the weakest and most...
JESSICA JONES, 2.8 & 2.9 – ‘AKA Ain’t We Got Fun’ & ‘AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed’
“AKA Ain’t We Got Fun” [usr 3.0] Something I never thought I’d say: Jessica Jones is becoming too ‘Marvel’. In “AKA Ain’t We Got Fun”,...
THE AVENGERS – ‘Tunnel of Fear’
"Tunnel of Fear" is the 20th episode of the first series of the 1960s British TV series The Avengers, and one of only three known complete series 1 episodes to have survived original broadcast...