WESTWORLD, 2.1 – ‘Journey into Night’
Television adaptations will often take a different approach to the movies or books they’re based on. Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) completed its story in...
JESSICA JONES, 2.12 & 2.13 – ‘AKA Pray for My Patsy’ & ‘AKA Playland’
“AKA Pray for My Patsy” As mentioned previously, the second season of Jessica Jones has suffered from pacing issues, with whole episodes dedicated to...
JESSICA JONES, 2.10 & 2.11 – ‘AKA Pork Chop’ & ‘AKA Three Lives and Counting’
“AKA Pork Chop” ‘Everyone has a hidden agenda’ is our theme in “AKA Pork Chop”, undoubtedly one of the weakest and most frustrating episodes...
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” Something I never thought I’d say: Jessica Jones is becoming too ‘Marvel’. In “AKA Ain’t We Got Fun”, we see...
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...
JESSICA JONES, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘AKA Facetime’ & ‘AKA I Want Your Cray Cray’
“AKA Facetime” Halfway through season one, Jessica Jones threw audiences for a loop with Kilgrave’s (David Tennant) creepy purchase of Jessica’s (Krysten Ritter) childhood...
JESSICA JONES, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘AKA God Help the Hobo’ & ‘AKA The Octopus’
“AKA God Help the Hobo” It seems like our eponymous heroine has learnt the advantage of speaking out and having a team behind her...
THE X-FILES, 11.10 – ‘My Struggle IV’
While nowhere near as shambolic as season 10’s finale, “My Struggle IV” was still a disappointing end to The X-Files — perhaps forever? Although without Gillian...
JESSICA JONES, 2.2 & 2.3 – ‘AKA Freak Accident’ & ‘AKA Sole Survivor’
Just as we were talking about new characters being introduced slowly, Jessica Jones throws us multiple curveballs in the second and third episodes of...
JESSICA JONES, 2.1 — ‘AKA Start at the Beginning’
It’s been over two years since Jessica Jones debuted on Netflix, and a little under a year since the character joined The Defenders for...
THE X-FILES, 11.9 – ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
Given the title and its position as the penultimate episode, ahead of a finale that’ll further entangled us with riddles and nonsense, “Nothing Lasts...
THE X-FILES, 11.8 – ‘Familiar’
Ironically, this episode felt very familiar. A small town’s community rocked by a spate of strange murders? Creepy kids? A thick forest full of...