‘Merlin’: ‘Lamia’ review
An atmospheric pre-credit sequence set the tone for a tense episode chock full of jumps and scares.
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An atmospheric pre-credit sequence set the tone for a tense episode chock full of jumps and scares.
Secrets is a contender for being the most unsettling episode of the series so far – and the most compelling.
Leaning heavily on the Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can for its visual capturing of the early 1960s, Pan Am follows the lives of four air hostesses working for the titular airline.
Trapped in the mother of all causal loops, Simon is calmly facing his SuperHoodie destiny, but it’s a road paved with oddballs. Oddballs like Peter.
After the events of A Servant of Two Masters, resulting in a confrontation with ‘old Merlin’, Morgana now fears her mortal enemy more than ever.
‘It’s like a drug,’ Rick remarks to Shane this week. He’s talking about nostalgia, but he could easily be referring to The Walking Dead.
In what’s probably Sigmund Freud’s favourite episode to date, Misfits explores the ramifications of Curtis’ most-unusual ability, which seems to be more trouble than it’s worth.
You don’t maintain your status as television’s premier drama by being safe. Downton Abbey was better than this. It needs to be again.
In a series that has so far veered more towards the dramatic, woodworm not withstanding, it was inevitable that a lighter episode was due.
The writing is often overlooked amid the action sequences, but this isn’t a case of bad dialogue being buried beneath gruesome makeup and bloody special effects.