This most recent (and sadly final) run of Foyle’s War has made excellent and appropriate use of its 1946 setting. Links to the Nuremberg trials in ‘High Castle’ and to the King David Hotel attack in ‘Trespass’ are both of their time. It would have been easy to give us generic crimes in a nostalgic … >
Last Tango in Halifax is always a dramatic event, but tonight’s episode was subdued on the dramatic highs and lows, and rightly so. Beautifully held at a sensitive, calm, level this dysfunctional family, and its’ many off shoots, pulled together to be there for each other, in their own unique ways. We were left hanging … >
Call the Midwife is happy with embracing change, as it has done many times over the years, and this episode is one that sets the tone for things as we move forward into the drama’s fourth season. Jenny Lee is now definitely not featuring at all save for her voiceover, and Cynthia isn’t even in the premiere. … >
Once again, the Musketeers find themselves embroiled in a mess of politics and things that go boom very loudly this week, as they are tasked with recovering the daughter of a former Spanish general in exchange for the secret to a highly powerful gunpowder, which could tip the political scales of Europe very heavily in … >
Settled in after last week’s dramatic opener, the Saint-Marie police are sent in to investigate the murder of a surfing instructor, who was killed by a gun he did not own, in a locked room from where the killer couldn’t have escaped. Death in Paradise packs in a lot this week, despite its easy pace: … >
Last Tango in Halifax plunged straight in to the lesbian wedding of the year, with a twist on the old clichéd ‘will they/ won’t they’ conundrum. There was no doubt as to whether Caroline and Kate would or wouldn’t, but would Celia get over her self-wallowing and go the wedding or would she stay at … >
Last week’s Season 2 opener set the bar so high for Broadchurch that there was always a risk that this next episode wouldn’t measure up. Luckily, a strong balance of the two main stories and some explosive developments maintain the pace and dramatic tone. David Tennant and Olivia Colman continue their dynamic chemistry, but it’s … >
‘Trespass’, the second episode in the new run of Foyle’s War, begins with British soldiers assaulting and arresting a Jewish settler in Palestine. This sets the theme right from the off for a story that involves the Middle East peace process, acts of terrorism, and a controversial ‘fringe’ political figure stirring up anti-immigrant feeling amongst … >
The endless danger, political machinations, and nice-looking people in fabulous historical costume continues in this week’s instalment of The Musketeers. This week, the King takes a page from a classic Pulp song, and spends an evening living like the common people, borrowing some less conspicuous garb and apparently becoming convinced that peasants spend all their … >
We return to the island of Saint-Marie for a fourth season of BBC One’s lighthearted crime comedy drama. Tonight’s opener takes a distinctly supernatural tone, centering around the murder of local businessman Elias Thompson (James Wilby) who is killed at a séance during the island’s Voodoo Festival of the Dead. Death in Paradise has always … >