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Kurt Wallander must have a very honest face. Four times during ‘The White Lioness’ he is to be found alone at the scene of the crime (twice stood next to a still-fresh corpse), but not once does the finger of suspicion point in his direction. Season 4’s opener places the Swedish detective far from home, … >
So now we know. Or at least, we know something. After the shocking end to Episode 7 it was all but certain that Henry Gibson has been behind it all – and episode eight quickly confirms it, with Harry Lloyd superb as Henry going just a little bit American Psycho. Henry’s use of “how” instead … >
The penultimate episode begins with Marcella tied to a chair, ends with Matthew bound and gagged, and along the way kills off Bendek when a bit of solo autoerotic asphyxiation goes wrong (“Is it really better without air?” asks Laura). Amidst this miscellaneous bondage is probably the best episode yet as we head towards the finale. … >
Continuing straight on from the previous episode, the start of this week’s Marcella is a tense race against time – driven not just by the ongoing quest to catch the killer but by the fact that he has kidnapped a young girl who was unfortunate enough to have witnessed the latest murder. Success follows failure … >
It sometimes seems, with ever increasingly-detailed playsets and figures coming on to the market, that ‘toys’ today aren’t really designed for children at all, but are in fact aimed squarely at the adult collector market. It’s a shame, because I’m sure I can’t be the only child of the 1970s who spent many a happy … >
We’re over the halfway point now with ITV’s Marcella, and so it seems appropriate that some of the storylines are starting to be resolved. Following on from his arrest last week, the fifth episode starts with Marcella interviewing Peter Cullen (the quietly menacing Ian Puleston-Davies). Full marks to Anna Friel – Marcella’s not a flashy … >
Four episodes in and we’re still not in a position to comment on Marcella’s abilities as a detective – her reputation so far rests solely on the praise of boss Laura. Unquestionably, though, she has a talent for the criminal. She smoothly adlibs her way out of last week’s discovery that she had been reviewing … >
I don’t know if it’s just coincidence or whether a memo has gone round TV execs, but hot on the heels of Tom Hiddleston’s celebrated derrière in The Night Manager, Nicholas Pinnock’s bare bottom steals a few seconds of our attention partway through this week’s third episode of Marcella. With his lover Grace still missing, … >
The second instalment of ITV’s Marcella from the creator of Scandinavian hit The Bridge begins with Anna Friel’s character in an upmarket doctor’s consulting room, and if we hadn’t already worked it out from her ‘blackout’ last week it’s soon made very clear that she has a problem. Her doctor (Richard Cordery) drops plenty of intriguing hints … >
Following last week’s ugly confrontation between Geordie and Sidney, this week’s final episode of Grantchester begins with Sidney working his way through, if not exactly the ten commandments, certainly a series of vices. He’s smoking too much, he’s drinking too much, and he’s even trying to stick his hand up the skirt of the local … >