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.
This penultimate episode puts increasing pressure on the finale to deliver both climactic conclusions for the various erratic story lines and a sufficiently cathartic end to satisfy viewers.
As a reintroduction to such a sprawling, complex series, this is pretty near perfect.
In the second instalment of ITV1’s Titanic mini-series it’s the turn of money rather than sexual morality to take centre stage.
The genius of Homeland is that we genuinely don’t know who to trust. Every character that might be telling porkies has a compelling explanation for their suspicious behaviour.
Perhaps consciously striving to avoid Lost-style confusion, the script is still somewhat simplistic, which sometimes means that it ends up working against itself.