‘Homeland’: Season 1 Episode 9 review
Among its myriad virtues, Homeland is up there with the best when it comes to onscreen swearing.
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Among its myriad virtues, Homeland is up there with the best when it comes to onscreen swearing.
It was large, grand and – with so many talented names on board – hyped up to be pretty much unsinkable, but ITV1’s Titanic seems to have foundered on the iceberg of a fragmented and repetitive narrative.
So here we are; the final throws of a dying giant twist and turn, but regretfully to no avail.
Just as we learned to remember his name, Michael was dropped faster than the sauce he’d helped invent. 3 down, 13 to go: picked your winner yet?
Things are now beginning to kick off in an interesting way for Alcatraz, essentially because the characters are now beginning to have some personal investment in the over-reaching story.
Last week’s opener tried to give us an overview of the whole Game of Thrones canvas by featuring every major character, while The Night Lands benefits from concentrating on fewer groups.
Launching this week on Sky Arts 1 is a new series of one-off drama and comedy plays (there’s even some science-fiction in there too), under the umbrella of Playhouse Presents…
We’ve had three instalments of ITV’s Titanic now and scriptwriter Fellowes’ looping-back narrative is starting to feel ever so slightly tired.
It’s the episode that drives forward the final section of the series, picking up from last week’s summer vacation with a fresh burst of pace.
Maria was sent to bed early last week, leaving 14 candidates to continue battling it out in the corporate Hunger Games that is The Apprentice.