THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
“Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that kept the...
GIRLS – Season Five
HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be a Conservative...
SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed the mythology...
SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple POVs cluttering...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.3 – ‘Travelers’
The third episode, “Travelers”, shows the main characters undergoing a transformation as each heads off in a separate direction. While this is slowly helping...
SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a whiff of...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’
“The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is, as Steven Moffat has acknowledged, an homage to the superhero comics of his youth, and particularly to the...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.2 – ‘The Road Less Traveled’
There’s a very welcome injection of pace in “The Road Less Traveled”, the second episode of The Man in the High Castle’s second season....
HUMANS – series two, episode eight
And so, in the end, Humans series 2 ended in the same way it began, with someone pushing a button and changing the world....
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.1 – ‘The Tiger’s Cave’
Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle immediately picks up where the first season finale “The Way Out” ended. It’s pretty much...
HUMANS – series two, episode seven
The first half of series 2’s penultimate episode felt curiously subdued. There were some strong moments, particularly when it came to Renie (Letitia Wright),...
TRANSPARENT – Season Three
In some ways, the most incredible thing about Jill Soloway’s Transparent is its running time. In half an hour Soloway manages to pack in...