Songs. Since the Doctor returned in 2005 they’ve formed a quiet coda in the background of his lives, and not simply because of composer Murray Gold’s bombastic injection of sound. ‘I sang a song and the Daleks ran away’, Nine told Rose. ‘Your song is ending soon’, the Ood warned Ten, and sang him to sleep. And Eleven? Well, he’s played around a lot with a certain Melody lately.
For an episode which did so much to ring in the new, there was an awful lot that was familiar about ‘The Bells of Saint John’.
Suffolk’s spookiest cottage ends its mysterious journey through time, remorse and fashion as Lightfields comes to its inevitable conclusion in the fifth episode. But the finale ends on a more subdued and quiet note than expected.
Once again, this show burns through plot faster than expected and opens up even more unpredictability to come.
Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen! It’s time for another spin of wheel in ‘Seaside Suspect Roulette’. And what a game it it is.
Last week’s zombie lynching? What zombie lynching?
The final shocking events of Episode 1 may still haunt many of you, but as we open on Episode 2 of Dominic Mitchell’s undead drama, the killing of Ken Burton’s rehabilitated wife is scrubbed clean; washed from the tarmac and covered over with idle chit-chat. An act of un-remembrance at a time when the those killed during the uprising are being honoured by the massed ranks of the Human Volunteer Force.
Whether the show’s hero will survive War of the Damned remains very unclear.
Each first meeting with Jenna-Louise Coleman has been wrapped in just enough mystery and thrills to make something familiar seem brand new.
Shetland has a high bar to leap given the TV crime competition lately, especially the previous week’s Mayday and of course ITV’s epic Broadchurch.
It’s only becoming clearer why War of the Damned had to be the final season of Spartacus.