‘Great Expectations’ review
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
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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.
With such a commendable third addition to the brilliant This is England story, it’s no surprise that far more than fistful of fans are rooting for a forth.
You can’t help but smile. It’s The Doctor. At Christmas. Just sit back with your selection box and watch him shine.
By the Nazi-killing, zombie-bashing high standards of Series 3 it’s a rather low-key finale, and against the previous 7 episodes feels just a bit underwhelming.
This is by some vast, Route 66-sized distance, the least funny thing that Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show, Fresh Meat, The Thick of It) has ever written.
Just Henry is actually an adaptation of a children’s novel by Goodnight Mister Tom author Michelle Magorian which strives to be charming but ends up being simultaneously laborious and lethargic.