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After an impressive run of episodes that did a great deal to expand the show’s scope while allowing The Walking Dead to subvert its own formula, this week’s antepenultimate episode proved to be a disappointingly rote step down for the show. Perhaps the core issue with ‘Twice as Far’ is that it’s come after a … >
The Walking Dead’s impressive hot streak of episodes continued this week with a taut, compelling bottle episode with a pared-down cast and an impressive thematic focus. ‘The Same Boat’ very much feels like the second half of a thematic exploration begun by ‘Not Tomorrow Yet’ – in the way it flips the perspective to the … >
The Walking Dead isn’t messing around this half-season – just after the threat of the Saviors was properly introduced, Rick’s group took the fight to their new enemy in this week’s episode. ‘Not Tomorrow Yet’ marks the beginning of Rick’s feud with the Saviors, and it feels, fittingly, like a real turning point for the … >
It was world-building time on this week’s The Walking Dead, as the show began the steady build-up towards a major confrontation in the season finale. ‘Knots Untie’ is a classic table-setting episode – light on action and resolution, but chock-full of new characters and locations. It’s all about setting up the chess pieces for the … >
After the thrilling chaos of the mid-season premiere, The Walking Dead took a well-deserved breather for a measured episode that gently nudges the series in a new direction. ‘The Next World’ is an unusual episode of The Walking Dead in just about every sense. It has the lowest stakes and threat level of any episode … >
After a whole half-season of building up to the walker invasion of Alexandria, The Walking Dead finished 2015 on a flat note with a disappointingly uneventful mid-season finale. ‘Start to Finish’ introduced some intriguing ideas about a potential rebirth of Alexandria and appeared to pick up the pace at the end, but it didn’t leave … >
After last week’s visceral, gory case that leaned heavily on plot, Ripper Street went in the other direction this week with a case of the week that doubled up as something of a character study. The character in question was Thomas Gower (Jake Mann), a surprise returnee who first appeared all the way back as … >
As one of British TV’s more graphic and gory shows, Ripper Street has featured a copious amount of blood in its time, increasingly so now it’s made the jump to Amazon. Naturally, the next step was an episode that was all about blood. ‘A White World Made Red’ began with a superbly atmospheric opening scene … >
Having established a familiar yet different status quo in Season 4’s two-part opening story, it was back to business for Ripper Street in this solid second episode. ‘Some Conscience Lost’ won’t go down as a classic, but it’s an assured outing that takes the traditional case-of-the-week formula from previous seasons and adds considerable complexity to … >
Having made the transition to Amazon Prime in supremely confident style with its third season, the grim and gritty Whitechapel drama is back for a fourth run. Clocking in at a mammoth, movie-length 130 minutes, this double-bill opener starts off on very shaky ground. The central characters start the season off in vastly different situations, … >