JESSICA JONES, 2.10 & 2.11 – ‘AKA Pork Chop’ & ‘AKA Three Lives and Counting’
“AKA Pork Chop” [usr 1.5] ‘Everyone has a hidden agenda’ is our theme in “AKA Pork Chop”, undoubtedly one of the weakest and most...
JESSICA JONES, 2.8 & 2.9 – ‘AKA Ain’t We Got Fun’ & ‘AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed’
“AKA Ain’t We Got Fun” [usr 3.0] Something I never thought I’d say: Jessica Jones is becoming too ‘Marvel’. In “AKA Ain’t We Got Fun”,...
JESSICA JONES, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘AKA Facetime’ & ‘AKA I Want Your Cray Cray’
“AKA Facetime” [usr 2.0] Halfway through season one, Jessica Jones threw audiences for a loop with Kilgrave’s (David Tennant) creepy purchase of Jessica’s (Krysten...
JESSICA JONES, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘AKA God Help the Hobo’ & ‘AKA The Octopus’
[usr 4.0] “AKA God Help the Hobo” It seems like our eponymous heroine has learnt the advantage of speaking out and having a team...
JIGSAW (2017)
When bodies start turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise, the police investigation points to one suspect: John 'Jigsaw' Kramer, who has been dead for 10 years...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.10 – ‘Fallout’
[usr 4.0] A flashback sequence sums up where we’ve come from, and where we might be heading in “Fallout”, the season 2 finale of...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.9 – ‘Detonation’
[usr 3.5] The final two episodes of The Man in the High Castle’s second season gather up all the ongoing subplots, as Japan and...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.8 – ‘Loose Lips’
[usr 3.5] As we head to the season finale, “Loose Lips” re-arranges the furniture on The Man in the High Castle, and although it’s...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
[usr 3.0] “Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
[usr 3.5] “Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.3 – ‘Travelers’
[usr 4.0] The third episode, “Travelers”, shows the main characters undergoing a transformation as each heads off in a separate direction. While this is...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.2 – ‘The Road Less Traveled’
[usr 4.0] There’s a very welcome injection of pace in “The Road Less Traveled”, the second episode of The Man in the High Castle’s...