‘Fringe’: Season 3 DVD review
We open with a follow-on from the second season’s cliff-hanger, with Olivia held prisoner in the parallel universe that is waging war against ours.
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We open with a follow-on from the second season’s cliff-hanger, with Olivia held prisoner in the parallel universe that is waging war against ours.
It seems now’s the right time to launch this new monthly blog bathing in the light relief that is bloody murder, torture-porn and psychological oblivion.
Supernatural is a show that – much like many of the creatures, ghosts and ghouls that populate its universe – just refuses to die.
From the soft grainy film sequences to one of the spookiest title sequences ever devised for television, even the sight of the HTV logo is sufficient to induce a nostalgia rush.
The bridging between two different mediums could easily have not worked, yet the motion comic feels appropriately dramatic and pacy, and for this it must be applauded.
The Event has all the ingredients needed for a successful run: a strong story that never feels as if it’s being made up on the hoof, complex characterisation and a sense of mystery.
Nikita benefits from snappy pacing and a story that is skilfully told, with just the right amount of information withheld from the viewers and not too many elements to make juggling them a flirtation with disaster.
And so House enters its seventh year, a period which has proven to be the undoing of many a series. After the ups and downs of Season 6, the team had more than a little bit to prove.
For many Simpsons fans, the perennial release pattern of their favourite show is more than a little frustrating.
Eureka is a title you will already associate with all manner of science related shows, hence it is known on British television by its extended moniker, A Town Called Eureka.