‘Sinbad’: Episode 4 review
Although the finale feels hurried, it does not spoil what is without doubt the best episode of Sinbad yet.
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Although the finale feels hurried, it does not spoil what is without doubt the best episode of Sinbad yet.
Making The Bill look like In The Night Garden, Jed Mercurio has created one of the finest and most compelling police dramas of recent years. But it’s due to a uniformly strong cast, whose strengths have shown as the series has continued, that his gut-punch plotting and ‘spit & shit’ view of policing have succeeded. … >
Historical accuracy is not a term that was likely ever intended to be associated with Sinbad, and if it was not clear enough already, the latest episode well and truly cements it.
Anyone else watch the last moments of tonight’s Line of Duty through their fingers? We might have done. Be glad you still have those fingers. DS Arnott may soon not be so lucky… It’s become apparent that, like a vindictive cinema manager, writer Jed Mercurio does not want you to flat out enjoy watching Line … >
Like its central character, the final episode of Blackout ends up teetering on the edge of disaster in an unhappy mess of good intentions gone awry.
After a barnstorming and rather hurried pilot episode, the second instalment of Sinbad appears to have set the pace for the rest of this ambitious series.
Things get intense for the ARC team this week, as events at Prospero come to a head and anomalies begin to open up all over the place.
Female-led British cop thrillers are uncommon enough, and ones as good as this are as rare as a smile from either of its lead characters.
As Bedlam’s second series draws to a close, it’s all about tying up loose ends and gluing together important plot points from the first series and from earlier episodes in this year’s run.
If you thought things couldn’t get worse for DCI Tony Gates, then you’re right. As Line of Duty hits its halfway point they don’t get worse, they get catastrophic. For the first two episodes Gates sat on his iron throne, fending off the barbs and jabs of the circling Anti-Corruption Unit with a smile or … >