After Reid took the week off last episode, the Inspector was back in action in a thrilling episode that wrapped up ongoing plotlines in often shocking ways, and catapulted the season into an entirely unexpected new direction. It was clear within the first few minutes that ‘Your Father, My Friend’ would be a very different … >
The list of heroic tasks Debbie must contend with is seemingly never-ending, and this week in Yonderland, she’s tasked with saving the last of the delicious Fahl. Hunted to near extinction for being really, properly moreish, the Fahl now lives in privileged comfort in a village enclosure, but Debbie discovers another Fahl hiding in the … >
Somehow, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford’s first amateur detective experience wasn’t enough to deter them from getting involved in a further round of investigative shenanigans. Thus, the further adventures of BBC One’s Partners In Crime began tonight with the opening part of ‘N or M?’ and our plucky heroes somehow find themselves still not having been … >
Having variously punched, shoved and concussed what seems like every law-enforcement man in New York, Agent Carter is ironically brought down by a woman at the end of this sixth episode. I say ironically, because it is the very woman that Peggy has spent much of the episode looking for. Following on from last week’s … >
With Reid retreating to the periphery for the time being, Ripper Street placed the focus squarely on Bennett Drake in a compelling instalment that effectively mixes standalone police work with serialised character development. After the events of last week’s episode, it wasn’t surprising that Reid (Matthew Macfayden) was missing for almost the entirety of ‘Ashes … >
Scandal. It’s a big, juicy, prickly word, especially when you preface it with ‘sex’. And that’s just what we have here in The Scandalous Lady W, a sex scandal from the yellowed, mysteriously stuck-together pages of history, thrust onto TV in typical BBC period costume glory. Natalie Dormer (a keen participant in Games to do … >
This week’s episode of Yonderland had me in such stitches over a few of its more grown-up oriented gags and references, and I’m certain that were I myself a parent, there would have been plenty my hypothetical sprogs would have laughed along to as well. Tasked this time first with intrducing coffee to the Elders … >
If Agent Carter had been involved with the suffragette movement I can’t help thinking the vote would have come a lot sooner because within the space of only five episodes Peggy has managed to go from being patronised and ignored by the rest of the SSR, to being invited out for an after-work drink with … >
Everyone loves a good sleuth. But that’s the point, everyone loves a good sleuth. Your Poirots, your Marples. It’s hard to love one who is barely competent. It’s even harder to love two of them. Tommy and Tuppence aren’t sleuths, they’re a nosy married couple being knocked about from mystery to mystery, clue to clue, … >
After the explosive events of Season 3’s opener, it is clear that Ripper Street has no intention of taking its foot off the accelerator. While continuing to explore Long Susan’s outwardly philanthropic business Obsidian Estates, this episode grapples with one of the show’s long-standing mysteries. When Obsidian’s repugnant lawyer Capshaw (John Heffernan) visits a defaulting … >