Chapter Three of Doctor Who: Flux has just landed. Here’s what we thought of Once, Upon Time… Naturally, spoilers follow. Tony Jones: It started so well. Enter Bel, played by Thaddea Graham (who impressed in The Irregulars) one of two excellent pieces of casting and a well judged character, with a meaningful narrative thread. Then we … >
Chapter Two of Doctor Who: Flux has just landed. Here’s what we thought of War of the Sontarans… Naturally, spoilers follow. Tony Jones: Well, that was great fun, from start to finish indeed. The full-pelt pacing from last week was turned down a notch, allowing for some character as well as action. The team … >
Chapter One of Doctor Who: Flux has just landed. Here’s what we thought of The Halloween Apocalypse… Naturally, spoilers follow. Tony Jones: Definitely a lot better than I was afraid it might be, though I would have liked a bit more Doctor + Yaz before John Bishop gets introduced. The opening was too frenetic for my … >
The latest Star Trek: Lower Decks episode is the curiously named You Say Mugato, I Say Gumato — we explain why and give you the highlights of the episode Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 bubbles along nicely with the latest episode You Say Mugato, I Say Gumato. The story itself is fairly straightforward (see below), but the … >
Star Trek: Lower Decks 2:3 We’ll Always Have Tom Paris marks a milestone — 800 episodes and counting for the franchise It’s official (*see below) — with the latest instalment of Star Trek: Lower Decks, there have been 800 televised episodes of Star Trek across various versions of the franchise since 1966. It’s a big number, and … >
The latest Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 episode was Kayshon, His Eyes Open — a great title and (at least one) an Easter Egg as well Season 2 episode 2of Star Trek: Lower Decks brought us a replacement for Boimler (Jack Quaid’s character starts on the USS Titan with Ryker), and the inevitable jostling for position … >
Star Trek: Lower Decks is back on Prime, and Strange Energies encapsulates the series values perfectly The USS Cerritos is back and the story remind us how season 1 ended. On the Cerritos, Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is her usual would-be maverick self, and her relationship with her mother Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) … >
New series Loki continues to impress and episode 3, Lamentis is both gorgeous to look at and adds to the mystery Last week we reported on the role Sophia di Martino may (or may not) be playing in Loki, as well as touching on the mystery of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) itself. The latest episode, Lamentis, gave … >
After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, Lucifer is back, and we have our Lucifer season 5B review. SPOILER — if you’re a fan, you’ll love this Speaking of spoilers, we’ll keep this as light as we can — there are plenty of huge moments. If you need a reminder of where the show had paused, check … >
Jupiter’s Legacy Volume 1 brings us (another) multi-generational superhero series with (another) deconstruction of the genre. Sadly it fails to excel at either Despite effects, sets, and a cast doing their best, Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy fails to concentrate on anything in particular, resulting in eight episodes of slow-moving character introductions and simplistic moralising. We’ll explain. … >