PREACHER – Season Three
byAMC’s Preacher is a show where quality varies from arc to arc, episode to episode. Some moments were well-acted and poignant, others distasteful or,…
AMAZON PRIME
PREACHER – Season Two
byPreacher almost feels like a completely different show at the start of season 2. Its debut year meandered with inconsistent pacing and a lack of…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.8 – ‘Come to Jesus’
byIf there’s one consistent theme in American Gods, it’s belief. The show is all about how faith in the Old Gods or the New…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.7 – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’
byIt 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,…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
byAmerican Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.5 – ‘Lemon Scented You’
byAll the various and previously disconnected strands of American Gods’ core narrative are beginning to come together. Unlike last week’s excellent but unusual episode,…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.4 – ‘Git Gone’
by“Git Gone” is the best episode of American Gods so far. It’s more than that, though, it’s the show’s first truly great, cohesive, and…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.3 – ‘Head Full of Snow’
byAmerican Gods is such an overwhelmingly gorgeous show that it feels hard to criticise it. Like the previous two episodes, “Head Full of Snow”…
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)
byAn antisocial uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies.
AMERICAN GODS, 1.2 – ‘The Secret of Spoons’
byShadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is not having a good week. After narrowly surviving a lynching at the end of the first episode of American…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.1 – ‘The Bone Orchard’
byAmerican Gods doesn’t mess around. Right from the word go, this is a violent, beautiful, confusing drama that makes it clear it won’t be…
CATASTROPHE – Series Three
bySharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s semi-biographical sitcom Catastrophe recently returned to Channel 4 for its third series. Named after a quote from Zorba the…