THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE – Season One
It is 1962. Germany and Japan have won the Second World War and since 1947 the occupied United States is divided between the two...
JEKYLL & HYDE – Series One
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is one of the immovable cornerstones of horror literature. Having...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Battle Royale’
I don’t have nearly as many observations as questions about “Battle Royale,” the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel. The series typically ties up...
SHERLOCK – ‘The Abominable Bride’
A considerable number of theories were spun about how Sherlock writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss would transplant their very postmodern take on Sherlock...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Husbands of River Song’
When a man pops his head out of a police box door and asks a duffle-coated Matt Lucas for an opinion on the set...
LUTHER – Series Four
It’s been two years since we last saw DCI John Luther (Idris Elba); the dishevelled, troubled, imposing detective with a knack for solving extremely...
JESSICA JONES – Season One
Whereas Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is tethered to the unfolding sprawl of Marvel’s cinematic universe (with The Avengers as elephants-in-the-room), Netflix have found a smarter way...
THE KNICK, 2.10 – ‘This is All We Are’
The Knick has always been a series that boasted a wry and dark sense of humour, which was always necessary to offset the rather...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Gets Revenge’
The high points of “She Gets Revenge” are the scenes between Liz (Denis O’Hare) and Douglas (Josh Braaten), the son she abandoned 31-years ago....
MR. ROBOT – Season One
There are some shows that make you sit up after the first episode and exclaim: ‘what was that I just watched?’ It’s the reaction...
THE KNICK, 2.9 – ‘Do You Remember Moon Flower?’
As has so often been the case this season, the opening shot of “Do You Remember Moon Flower?” is designed specifically to startle us....
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Wants Revenge’
“She Wants Revenge” begins promisingly, with the Countess (Lady Gaga), in voiceover, making plans to rid herself of everyone but Rudolph Valentino (Finn Wittrock);...