‘Atlantis’: ‘Twist of Fate’ review

This fourth episode of Atlantis, which deals with the origins of a well-known myth, is the first tale written by someone other than series co-creator Howard Overman. With Richard McBrien takes on scripting duties, it also has a fresh director in the capable hands of Merlin‘s Alice Troughton.

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Series 1 finale review

Wow. We’ll get to that final moment in a minute, but first let’s look back to where it all began.

In our review of the first episode we called Tommy Shelby ‘the conquering Alexander wearing a crown of razor blades’  (We did. Honest), and over the past six weeks we’ve watched as Tommy the Great has expanded his Brummie Empire through cunning and violence to the point where he’s a legitimate power in every sense of the words.

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‘The Tunnel’ Episode 1 spoiler-free review

It’s not surprising that Scandinavian culture-clash cop show The Bridge has been adapted. What is surprising is that more dramas haven’t been based around The Channel Tunnel. The 31 mile subaquatic claustrophobia pipe filled with hurtling metal and disparate lives is a big concrete sausage of stories, yet to date the most dramatic thing to have happened in it was the denouement to Mission: Impossible. And that was 17 years ago.

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‘Peaky Blinders’: Episode 5 review

When is a show’s finale not its finale?

Peaky Blinders‘ penultimate episode has the dramatic neatness of a conclusion, cemented by the ominous sensation of finality as Tommy Shelby dramatically commutes through a graveyard (he’s always walking, even though he owns one of the few motorcars around), and yet we haven’t reached the end quite yet.

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‘Downton Abbey’ Series 4 Episode 3 review

So – rape as entertainment.  Well, it’s a debate to be had, isn’t it?

When ITV denied the press access to a preview of last night’s episode, we assumed it was for some trivial reason: a CGI backdrop of London that had yet to be painted in, while Edith bumped into Virginia Woolf in the foreground. That sort of thing.

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