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...
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....