LUKE CAGE – Season One
Marvel’s latest begins promisingly, with a funky ‘70s-flavoured soundtrack and moody shots of nighttime Harlem in glistening yellows and deep blacks. We’ve already met...
WESTWORLD, 1.3 – ‘The Stray’
Backstories are at the heart of Westworld’s third episode, “The Stray”, in the invention of a new narrative for Teddy (James Marsden), the revelation...
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.9 & 3.10 – ‘NIM’ & ‘NeXT’
There was a surprise four-year time-jump for the penultimate episode, “NIM”. That’s a lifetime in technology circles. It’s 1990 and Donna’s (Kerry Bishé) using Windows...
WESTWORLD, 1.2 – ‘Chestnut’
Most doubts I had about Westworld last week (of which there were few) were washed away by its second episode, “Chestnut”; a remarkably confident...
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.8 – ‘You Are Not Safe’
I wish Ryan (Manish Dayal) had been written with more nuance, as his suicide didn’t land a big enough punch as a result of...
WESTWORLD, 1.1 – ‘The Original’
Updating Westworld (the 1973 movie Michael Crichton wrote and directed) is a great idea because enough time’s passed for a different approach to the...
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.7 – ‘The Threshold’
The firmament really started to shift and shake in “The Threshold”, an episode where characters either literally or figuratively crossed a barrier and found...
THE NIGHT OF (HBO, 2016)
How much can one hasty decision transform your life? This is the central question at the core of The Night Of, HBO’s remake of...
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.6 – ‘And She Was’
Pushing into the second half of the season, and significant changes are taking place. A lot of this new direction forms over a weekend,...
MR. ROBOT, 2.12 – ‘eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z’
Oh, Sam Esmail, you terrible tease. Season 2 of Mr. Robot came to an end with the reveal that it was… an extended trailer...
MR. ROBOT, 2.11 – ‘eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z’
I know it can seem like I’m obsessed by the debt the second season of Mr. Robot owes to the work of David Lynch,...
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.5 – ‘Yerba Buena’
Halfway through Halt and Catch Fire’s third season, and things are starting to come together slightly. The show’s split between the ‘Mutineers’ and ‘MacMillanites’,...
