‘Being Human’: Series 4 Episode 4 review
Tom Grieves’ A Spectre Calls – even the title is perfect – is a thing of glory: an episode that constantly treads the line between creepy and funny.
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Tom Grieves’ A Spectre Calls – even the title is perfect – is a thing of glory: an episode that constantly treads the line between creepy and funny.
Starring Keeley Hawes (Ashes to Ashes) and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), Upstairs Downstairs is back on BBC One for a second series.
Upstairs Downstairs is a much more brittle drama than the more emotionally demonstrative Downton Abbey.
Appropriately for an episode set partly in a café, this felt like more of a bread and butter episode of Being Human – and yet, there are still elements in it to intrigue.
Starring Keeley Hawes (Ashes to Ashes) and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), Upstairs Downstairs returns to BBC One this weekend for a second series.
With Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary around the corner, 1973’s The Three Doctors is an object lesson to today’s fans about the sensible limitation of one’s expectations.
After last week’s bamboozler of an opener, tonight’s follow-up was an attempt to restore normal service with a return to the domestic comedy of earlier series.
Sometimes watching Doctor Who, one can feel an uneasy anxiety, waiting for the next arch performance or line of clunky dialogue to break the spell.
When The Tomb of the Cybermen was discovered in Hong Kong in 1991, it felt like a remarkable feat of resurrection for a story which is itself.
The new series of Being Human kicked off with the energy and twisty-turniness of a series finale.