THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE – Season One
A love story between two people complicated by one of them living his life out of sequence.
SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
[usr 3.5] If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed...
SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
[usr 4.5] Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple...
SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
[usr 4.0] As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’
[usr 3.5] “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is, as Steven Moffat has acknowledged, an homage to the superhero comics of his youth, and particularly...
SHERLOCK – ‘The Abominable Bride’
[usr 3.5] A considerable number of theories were spun about how Sherlock writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss would transplant their very postmodern take...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Husbands of River Song’
[usr 3.0] When a man pops his head out of a police box door and asks a duffle-coated Matt Lucas for an opinion on...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.12 – ‘Hell Bent’
[usr 3.0] 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...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.11 – ‘Heaven Sent’
[usr 4.5] “As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you....
DOCTOR WHO, 9.8 – ‘The Zygon Inversion’
[usr 4.0] 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...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.2 – ‘The Witch’s Familiar’
[usr 4.0] Perhaps it was inevitable that Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) would escape the ‘maximum extermination cliffhanger’ by using those vortex...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.1 – ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’
[usr 4.0] Would you leave a child to die on a battlefield? Well, you might have second thoughts if that child was Davros (Joey...