STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.12 – ‘Vaulting Ambition’
A great magic trick is all about misdirection. While many had spotted the groundwork going into Star Trek: Discovery’s mid-season twist (that Ash Tyler...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.6 – ‘Black Museum’
This final episode was longer than usual, although there were less feature-length instalments compared to the last series. “Black Museum” reminded me of 2014’s...
THE X-FILES, 11.3 – ‘Plus One’
Chris Carter delivers his first decent X-Files script in years, by doing something that doesn’t involve the tangled mythology and was instead a simple...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.5 – ‘Metalhead’
Episode 5 is a bit of a departure for the current series of Black Mirror and feels more like a standalone short movie. Within...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.11 – ‘The Wolf Inside’
The signposted twist with Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), that he’s actually Klingon “torchbearer” Voq, surgically altered to infiltrate the Federation, didn’t land its blow...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.4 – ‘Hang the DJ’
Black Mirror isn’t known for positive, hopeful, or romantic stories, but last year’s “San Junipero” proved its cautionary tales about technology needn’t always be...
THE X-FILES, 11.2 – ‘This’
I didn’t hate last week’s premiere (although it was another convoluted mess of ideas about a government conspiracy nobody cares about), but it’s a...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.10 – ‘Despite Yourself’
There’s a compelling argument against doing a “Mirror Universe” episode of Star Trek: Discovery this early, as it’s less fun seeing bizarro versions of...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.3 – ‘Crocodile’
I spend every episode of Black Mirror hunting for signs of a technology the story will revolve around, but “Crocodile” kept its tech hidden...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.2 – ‘Arkangel’
Black Mirror is in an unenviable position. While the first couple of series were well received on Channel 4, it was really Netflix’s third...
THE X-FILES, 11.1 – ‘My Struggle III’
When The X-Files returned to TV in 2016 (eight years after X-Files: I Want to Believe, fourteen years since it was cancelled on Fox),...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.1 – ‘USS Callister’
The great thing about many Black Mirror stories is how they often have multiple layers, with even the concept appearing to be one thing...