SHOW ME A HERO – Part One
Hello, and welcome to David Simon’s (The Wire) newest show: a six-part HBO miniseries set in Yonkers during the 1980s, which is also the best thing...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.8 – ‘Omega Station’
I lost interest in this season of True Detective around the time Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) lost his moustache; which was ironically the moment...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.7 – ‘Black Maps and Motel Rooms’
Among the many problems I have with season two of True Detective, probably the main one is the show’s insistence on writing cheques its...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.6 – ‘Church in Ruins’
If the first season of True Detective felt like the work of a TV writer who’d read far too many novels (with its heavy doses...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.5 – ‘Other Lives’
“It’s never too late to start all over again.” How very true Ani (Rachel McAdams)—although, in the case of this season’s True Detective, I’d...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.4 – ‘Down Will Come’
We’re half way through this second season of True Detective, and one of my biggest problems remains the constant line it walks between addictive drama...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.3 – ‘Maybe Tomorrow’
We were firmly in David Lynch territory this week on True Detective, as a blue-lit dream sequence paid direct homage to Twin Peaks; with...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.2 – ‘Night Finds You’
Oh, Ray, say it ain’t so! Just as I was beginning to warm to the depressed Detective Velcoro (Colin Farrell), with his vulnerabilities and...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.1 – ‘The Western Book of the Dead’
Hello everyone, and welcome to the second season of True Detective (a.k.a the one where Nic Pizzolatto tries to pre-empt his critics by having his...
GAME OF THRONES – Season Five
Warning: this review contains major spoilers for HBO’s Game of Thrones, not just the fifth season, so it’s recommend you don’t read until you’ve seen up...
Why Bunk Moreland’s the true hero of THE WIRE
When The Wire first arrived on our screens all the way back in 2002, it was obvious who the hero was. It was that...