‘Skins’: Series 6 Episode 7 review
Skins really is a series that should be fearless, a series that can do anything and it’s utterly gratifying to see it live up to that potential.
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Skins really is a series that should be fearless, a series that can do anything and it’s utterly gratifying to see it live up to that potential.
At some point the show finds a rhythm that the pilot never had and bounces jauntily along with verve and – crucially – some much-needed laughs.
After three excellent episodes and one sensational one, Being Human has fumbled the ball slightly by falling back on one of the oldest plots in comedy: the love spell.
Teen vampire Adam’s back, there’s a new monster, and Cutler’s anti-werewolf campaign is accelerating. What does this all mean? It means that, for yet another week, Being Human is on incredible form.
Franky has essentially overtaken Mini as Generation 3’s queen bitch, which is a real shame as she was one of Skins‘ all-time best creations.
Two episodes in, and it’s starting to become clear what type of Sunday night period drama Upstairs Downstairs wants to be.
Tom Grieves’ A Spectre Calls – even the title is perfect – is a thing of glory: an episode that constantly treads the line between creepy and funny.
Mini’s difficulty accepting regular male figures in her life, and her pregnancy are both definite shadows of mother Shelley.
The second series of ITV1’s Kidnap & Ransom finds international hostage negotiator Dominic King (Trevor Eve) in Srinagar, Kashmir.
White Heat is immediately engrossing and deeply melancholy: an elegy for happiness shot through with dope, rock ‘n’ roll and shagging.