THE SANDMAN – Season One
Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by an occultist, Morpheus, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost totems.
THE SERPENT (BBC, 2021)
The story of Charles Sobhraj, a murderer, thief, and master of disguise, who was a hidden darkness in the mid-1970s on Asia's hippie trail.
DOCTOR WHO – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
And so we bid farewell to Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor. A shame really, as Capaldi was not best served by his writers...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.12 – ‘Hell Bent’
If there’s one thing that Steven Moffat’s “Hell Bent” achieves, it’s certainly not clarity. Picking up from The Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) arrival back on...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.11 – ‘Heaven Sent’
“As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.10 – ‘Face the Raven’
Every song must end. Clara Oswald’s (Jenna Coleman) comes to an end so matter-of-factly when Rigsy (Joivan Wade), last encountered in “Flatline“, rings her...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.9 – ‘Sleep No More’
I find enthusiastic claims made by the creators of any film or television episode that it’s going to be scary rarely ring true, and...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.8 – ‘The Zygon Inversion’
As many have commented, the opening scenes of this week’s Doctor Who uncomfortably mirror the suspected terrorist bombing of Russian passenger Metrojet 9268, which crashed in...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.7 – ‘The Zygon Invasion’
UNIT, eh? What are they like? Considering they’re one of Doctor Who’s last defences against all manner of alien incursions, they always seem to...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical debate about...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.5 – ‘The Girl Who Died’
Maisie Williams isn’t playing Susan, Romana, The Rani, Jenny, or any other returning female time-traveller. There, that’s my review written. Really, that’s nearly everything...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.4 – ‘Before the Flood’
The TARDIS feeling grumpy about temporal anomalies, and the tolling of the Cloister Bell, do not prepare you for the mind-scrambling deconstruction of the...