Can we all take a moment, please? Everybody else is crying right?
Though a bit of a slow burn, by the time we reached its closing moments ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’ had seriously proved its worth, tying up the week’s story with one of the most shocking and heartbreaking endings of the series as whole.
You know that the Jazz Age has well and truly come to Downton when his Lordship goes to America. Lord Grantham has his suspicions, as well he might, that this is a rather arbitrary plot development.
Beginning with some sweaty physical action, Hercules took part in a wrestling contest seeking to impress Medusa. In the aftermath of his inevitable defeat, Jason and Pythagoras discussed their friend’s shortcomings and the foolishness of his infatuation. Overhearing, the big man took umbrage and, after praying at the temple of Aphrodite, he was tempted with talk of a witch who could aid his predicament.
Just over halfway through ‘Unconscious Selection’, Art digs up a key piece of information that we’ve known has been available since the very first episode.
Misfits never turns out a bad episode when it puts Joe Gilgun’s living embodiment of a Freudian slip, Rudy, at the centre of events. Not just because it gives a writer two characters for the price of one to play with, or because Rudy is now the most fully-fledged character on the show, but because Gilgun manages to convincingly sell whatever he’s doing. Even if that’s just eating mustard.
In fiction, it never pays to be a randy teen. You’re always being chased through your house by some knife-wielding fiend in a Halloween mask, or attacked by a werewolf while smooching with your sweetheart in your dad’s Studebaker at Make-Out Point.
So, it’s that time of year again: the nights have drawn in and the lights are turned off to evade persistent trick-or-treaters and the odd masked killer. All the usual seasonal re-releases have hit the pound shops in force and CultBox is left to sift through the creepiest offerings this Halloween.
Workaholic junior barrister Will Burton (David Tennant) has a happy home life with his wife and son, splitting their time between an attractive London flat and a country cottage. He also enjoys professional acclaim and a healthy professional rivalry with one of his contemporaries, Maggie Gardner.
Alien bad boys and girls The Nekross have captured one hundred wizards and intend to extract their magic in the second part of Wizards Vs Aliens Series 2’s opening adventure.
Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer, is embarking on her first shuttle mission when a routine spacewalk goes horribly awry. Adrift in space, she must team up with soon-to-be retired astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in order to survive.