Sky1’s Yonderland maintains its high quality levels this week with a high gag-success rate, gratuitous nudity, and the inspired concept of the Monks of Old John, who must always tell the truth, and end up offending Negatus as a result. Debbie attempts to lead them to safety, avoiding those hunting for the reward of bringing them in dead or alive, including goblins and bounty hunters.
After the broader scope of Ariadne’s royal fortunes and Jason’s fate in the ring, this was a more intimate, family tale.
‘Tis some weeks until Christmas, but here’s something shocking;
You can buy this odd gift for a keen Trekkie’s stocking.
A book of Kirk’s foes: Klingon seasonal fun,
We’re about to review it, set your phasers to stun.’
Yonderland – Sky1’s new comedy series from the makers of Horrible Histories – really kicks into gear this week, launching promptly into the adventure and being all the funnier for getting to spend more time with all the one-off, incidental characters.
There is, as with many comedies, a lot more fun to be had once the setup of Yonderland – Sky1’s new comedy series from the makers of Horrible Histories – is over and done with.
Michael Fassbender leads a stellar cast in The Counsellor, a confused, sluggish, drugs-and-diamonds thriller directed by Ridley Scott from the first original film screenplay by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road).
For life-size science action figure Professor Brian Cox, the concepts of Time and Space are more exciting than the prospect of whatever Steven Moffat has planned for the world on 23 November this year. In the context of the entire universe, he’s probably got his priorities right.
It tends to happen once every series. Amid the crudity Misfits will produce an episode that manages to touch you right there.
You probably can’t tell because there aren’t two halves of two corpses lying across the fourth paragraph of this review, but we’re at the halfway point of Sky Atlantic’s continental murder marathon. The homicide hump.
The final episode began with the prospects of a conviction looking shaky. The defence had already rocked Will Burton’s eyewitness testimony and so the prosecution team were leaning heavily on their two pieces of physical evidence. Within a few short scenes, the razor sharp Maggie Gardener (Sophie Okenodo) had eviscerated both.