The Walking Dead has been a lot of things this season. In turns, it’s been a spectacle-driven drama, a siege thriller, a gory horror flick and then a quiet, thoughtful two-hander. This week? It’s just a typical episode. ‘Now’ is Scott Gimple’s iteration of The Walking Dead in default mode: a relatively slow character piece … >
The season finale opens with sunny skies over Downton but storm clouds brewing for both Edith and Mary. Lady Edith is struggling with the decision to tell Bertie Pelham the truth about Marigold. The question is called sooner than she’d like when Pelham arrives at the Abbey after his cousin dies suddenly, leaving Pelham a … >
The plot thickens this week as we start to get some answers about Robert’s past. Alongside Jekyll’s story, however, we have an increasing amount of subplots. For instance, we also follow his younger brother Ravi as he continues to evade capture in Ceylon. It’s hard to say at the moment how important his adventure will … >
Having set the bar high with Daredevil earlier this year, Marvel appear to have struck gold again with their second Netflix series, Jessica Jones, which gets off to an impressively assured start. Initially in ‘AKA Ladies Night’, there’s signs that Jessica Jones might not be the heavyweight that was expected. The opening act is perfectly … >
If you’re the kind of impeccable viewer who’s been checking Etsy on a daily basis for Question Mark underpants (none at the time of writing…I’ve, err, heard), or you’re a sucker for choice chunks of Who nostalgia, or if you just savour the relief of a Part 2 that lives up to its Part 1, … >
The second episode of BBC One’s new police drama does not have the challenge of the first, which had to introduce a whole brace of characters. It’s clear that Cuffs is channelling the mid-era highs of The Bill, since each episode is reasonably self-contained: no crimes are going to be investigated over the course of … >
Unlike in these weekly reviews, there’s not a word wasted in The Returned. Not one. No character jokes, or banters, and – because the electricity’s still off – no one discusses the football results, or wonders what’s happening in the country’s top soap opera, Plus belle la vie. They’re cut off from everything, yet no … >
As viewers we know this is the fifth episode of six, and so the story cannot be wrapped up this week. DI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) doesn’t have this benefit; she and DS Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) are tied down to police procedure and following the clues as they appear. Are they any closer to the … >
Two thirds of the way through the series, BBC One’s River is holding its own in the drama stakes, as it strikes a near perfect balance between the conflicted mental state of our main protagonist and the investigation into his police partner’s death. Unlike previous instalments, where there has been a third police related plot … >
If you subscribe to the old adage of not speaking ill of the dead, then part one of ‘What Lies Tangled’ may not be for you. Its unusually long opening montage ends with the explosive death of one Professor Adam Capstone and almost before the good folk of the Oxfordshire Constabulary Pathology department have picked … >