‘Public Enemies’: Episode 1 review
Don’t Believe The Hype, Public Enemy warned us in 1988, and this new, three-part drama from Tony Marchant arrives with high expectations that it struggles to live up to.
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Don’t Believe The Hype, Public Enemy warned us in 1988, and this new, three-part drama from Tony Marchant arrives with high expectations that it struggles to live up to.
The tired old dog of adaptations, The Hound of the Baskervilles has always been a bafflingly popular choice when it comes to pasting Sherlock onto the screen.
With the wild success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise still rolling onwards to the horizon, it’s a surprise that it’s taken this long for a big-budget revisiting of this tale.
Although physically Shaun Evans doesn’t immediately bring to mind the late John Thaw, there’s something in his demeanour that expertly captures the essence of the character Thaw made his own.
Writers and producers must be cursing Steven Moffat right now. It’s only day one of 2012, and already Sherlock looks like being the highlight of the TV year.
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
The Clocks is standard convoluted Christie fare under the auspices of ITV: a period police procedural with hints of political intrigue and a romantic twist.
Downton is back – not just on our TV screens, at a time of year most suited to country house sagas; but, more particularly, back to the kind of form it showed in Series 1.
After 2010’s superb but curiously adult A Christmas Carol – in spite of the presence of the young Kazran and a giant flying shark, it was very much the story of a bitter old man’s redemption and his love for a beautiful young woman frozen metaphorically and literally in time – Doctor Who’s festive special … >
Despite a feast of action, the tension built well and the episode was thoroughly involving, backed by an emotional score.