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 … >
Things take an emotional turn in Yonderland this week as Debbie explores her own history. The prophecy of the second scroll prompts the Elders’ decision to evict Debbie from Yonderland, thus preventing her falling to the influence of her sister, Imperatrix. Debbie’s not ready to give up on Yonderland, though – especially having just learned … >
Things are difficult enough for Agent Peggy Carter – a single working woman in 1940s New York keeping her role as secret agent hidden from the world, not to mention keeping her real agenda hidden from the rest of the SSR. So in hindsight it’s perhaps unfortunate that she’s added to her problems by moving … >
Much like its heroes Tommy and Tuppence, Partners in Crime gets much right, but also makes niggling errors in its enthusiastic execution of duties. It makes the whole endeavour feel slightly more amateurish than it clearly should be. There’s some dark, engaging stuff in Part 2 of ‘The Secret Adversary’, and at times a tremendous … >
The finale of a show you love… It’s a bit like having your birthday on a Sunday (all the more so if that show actually airs on a Sunday): all that excitement, attention, and then tomorrow it’s over and – boo, work, chores, The One Show – everything plummets back to normal again and all … >
Regardless of the off-screen traumas, all the principal cast are present and correct for the commencement of the late Victorian crime drama’s third season, which takes place in and around the streets of down-at-heel Whitechapel. Four years have passed since the climatic events which closed the second run and many of the characters find themselves … >
Some significant truths about Debbie’s history come to light in this week’s Yonderland episode, with what I expect will also be rather significant consequences. What fun! Meanwhile, a new crisis in Yonderland is looming, as the Elders find themselves in need of new cushions. Seriously, what did they do before they had a Chosen One? … >
Peggy Carter apparently works for the New York Bell Co telephone exchange, but is in fact an Agent with the Strategic Scientific Reserve. And although she is an agent with the SSR, she’s also working secretly on behalf of Howard Stark, wanted fugitive (to the SSR) and former wartime colleague (to Agent Carter). Just like … >
It all starts on a train. A setting that’s unmistakeably Dame Agatha. There’s the smoky whiff of The Orient Express, Le Train Bleu, and the 4:50 from Paddington as we commence the latest in BBC One’s Sunday night syllabus of bestseller adaptations. This year more than ever, Auntie Beeb is determined to borrow everything on … >