DOCTOR WHO, 10.1 – ‘The Pilot’
There’s a marvellous composition right at the start of this week’s Doctor Who that speaks volumes. As “The Pilot” begins and Bill Potts (Pearl...
CATASTROPHE – Series Three
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s semi-biographical sitcom Catastrophe recently returned to Channel 4 for its third series. Named after a quote from Zorba the...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.1 – ‘Mabel’
I know too many people who gave up on Better Call Saul during its first season, either because it wasn’t enough like Breaking Bad...
LEGION – Season One
Noah Hawley’s Legion is a hard show to classify. It can, at least on some level, be seen as a superhero drama (as it’s based on an...
PATRIOT – Season One
We live in a world where there are more television shows than you can possibly fit into your life. It’s a struggle to stand...
TABOO – Series One
Taboo is the kind of show that divides people. For every person who loves it passionately (revelling in the mud, muck, and mayhem that...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.10 – ‘Fallout’
A flashback sequence sums up where we’ve come from, and where we might be heading in “Fallout”, the season 2 finale of The Man...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.9 – ‘Detonation’
The final two episodes of The Man in the High Castle’s second season gather up all the ongoing subplots, as Japan and Germany hurtle...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.8 – ‘Loose Lips’
As we head to the season finale, “Loose Lips” re-arranges the furniture on The Man in the High Castle, and although it’s another slow-paced...
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season One
A Series of Unfortunate Events occupies an interesting position as a story that’s simultaneously charming and dark. There are very few other tales that...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
“Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has been handed...
THE OA – Season One
I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed to last...