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AMERICAN GODS, 1.7 – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’
It can be infuriating that American Gods often lacks much-needed structure and clarity, because it’s evidently superb at standalone storytelling. This week’s penultimate hour, “A Prayer For Mad Sweeney”, doesn’t disappoint in the slightest, putting the show’s skill for episodic plotting on full display. Much like the flashback episode “Git Gone”, this episode commits to…
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 5 & 6’
With “Part 5” of Twin Peaks: The Return we learn more about the web of terror created by the now incarcerated Mr. C, the leathery-faced ‘alternate Coop’ dodging the Black Lodge’s demand he return to their mystifying realm. When I say learn, that might not quite be as clear cut as it sounds. Mr. C,…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.9 – ‘Fall’
For a penultimate episode, “Fall” didn’t feel like one. The big storyline was something harking back to the Sandpiper case from Better Call Saul’s first season, and it was unclear what the “fall” of the title represented. A few people had some mishaps and were taken down a peg or two, but this happens most…
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THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975)
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming-of-age and growing into old age in conservative England.
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RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (2016)
Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse…
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
If this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day with this week’s Doctor Who, “Empress of Mars”. Right from the pre-titles scene in NASA mission control, he’s packing in references to many of his favourite things. To begin with the Valkyrie probe’s…
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LES DIABOLIQUE (1955)
The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; but after the deed is done, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague them…
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MADHOUSE (1981)
A teacher, employed by a school for the deaf, has a surprise birthday party crashed by her deformed and crazy sister…
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AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
American Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to love. It can feel like it’s holding its audience at a distance, and that makes it much more difficult to root for or understand the characters. You can also almost never…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.8 — ‘Slip’
This was a deceptively clever episode, helping connect some dots between the present-day Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his Slippin’ Jimmy days back in Chicago, pulling cons with his best-friend Marco (Mel Rodriguez). The cold open was a flashback to a time when Jimmy and Marco recovered some old coins from his father’s abandoned store,…
