After last week’s focus on Hercules and his romantic travails, we returned to a broader story which drew in the members of the Altantean royal court. Beginning with a pronouncement from King Minos, celebrations began for the engagement of Princess Ariadne to the oily Heptarian with the announcement of a Pankration, a brutal fighting contest.
It’s only when Misfits flies from our screens in – ooh, whoa, just 5 weeks’ time – that we’ll fully understand the unique position it built itself out of concrete and profanity and the colour orange.
After the dramatic events of last week’s opening episode, Will Burton (David Tennant) finds himself frozen out while both prosecution and defence build their cases for the second murder trial of Liam Foyle.
Within minutes of Wizards Vs Aliens Series 2’s second two-part story we’re treated to the words “bum burps” and the antics of new addition to the show, Squiggly – a rhyming, spitting Hobbledehoy.
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.