The longer I watch Taboo, the more I keep thinking of that rhyme from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The one where they’re in the boat on the chocolate river: ‘There’s no earthly way of knowing, Which direction they are going! There’s no knowing where they’re rowing, Or which way they river’s flowing! … >
Following on from last week’s episode, this conclusion to the ongoing mystery provides not just a satisfying end to the central story but also has us say goodbye to one of our regular cast. “It was an apparently impossible murder.” The central mystery has a real freshness to it and helps the episode immensely. Much … >
The final episode of ITV’s thrilling crime drama’s second season does not disappoint, as the truth about the tragic victims of child abuse is revealed. Revenge was finally dealt on all the perpetrators of the past evil acts by a pact made after those suffering were treated in a psychiatric unit in Ealing. Our detective … >
After a few weeks of surprisingly fresh episodes in terms of the central mystery, this week’s Death in Paradise feels a bit more back to basics, with a lot more emphasis on Humphrey andMartha’s holiday romance. “It almost feels like an execution.” The murder of the week story, with a cricketer being found shot dead on … >
In this week’s episode, the second season of Fortitude slows its pace and focuses on its living residents. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Eric survived his encounter with Tavrani the taxidermist, who pulled a gun on the acting sheriff last week. After his attempted escape is foiled by Ingrid, Tavrani’s interrogation reveals a potentially supernatural element to the killing. … >
When Shannon Matthews disappeared in 2008, the resulting search and eventual fallout felt like something straight out of a TV drama, so shocking and unimaginable was the result. How appropriate then that, almost a decade on, the tale finds itself the subject of a major BBC One drama. Wisely, The Moorside steers clear of obvious … >
“Courts aren’t about the truth. They’re about who tells the best story.” The sex in public, the family politics and the vagaries of the legal system have pushed us to this conclusion where the fate of Yvonne Carmichael is in the hands of twelve strangers in the jury rather than the one stranger who led … >
Brilliant writing, brought to life by fine acting, shines in the sixth episode of ITV’s new hotel drama. We’re now in October of 1940 and we’re focused on the nighttime exploits of the inhabitants of the Halcyon. Emma joins the Women’s Voluntary Services and provides tea to overworked firefighters and escorts the injured to medical … >
“What have I done?” Give a Monkey a baby and heating element and the results are up for debate but give an intelligent, romantically naive woman enough rope and they could end up hanging themselves. It turns out Mr Costley wasn’t delivering take away food to George Selway but take away life. As they flee … >
More than once in this episode of Call the Midwife, characters are placed in difficult situations and challenged to make hard decisions with only a moment’s notice. We’ve seen almost all the characters do this before, but the stakes are high as the maternity home is under scrutiny and a baby’s life is in danger. … >