It’s almost as if the abrasive industrial landscape of Birmingham scours away the principles of all who set foot in its dark and vice-riddled back streets. The same can be said of Birmingham back in 1919 too (we kid, we kid!), because as Peaky Blinders reaches its fourth episode, people are willing to compromise almost every principle in order to get what they want.
Following the pattern that grisly discoveries occur when the Whitehapel gang are socialising, this final tale began amid a “Zombie Apocalypse” team building exercise.
Not that we were initially aware, joining them fleeing from the undead hordes with Buchan and Miles worryingly immersed in the game. It was a smart move, serving to highlight this fractured team’s plight. If such an event does not truly exist for corporate jollies, it really ought to!
Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.
During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.
With the news of the worldwide release of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s belated sequel to his classic novel The Shining, comes the terrifying prospect of the author covering the same old ground yet again. Worthy follow-up or not, it’s pretty unlikely it’ll be quite as bad as his latest TV mini-series adaptation, Bag of Bones.
Sometimes an actor gives a performance so strong, it defines their career. Think Russell Crowe in Gladiator or Colin Firth in The King’s Speech. Filth will no doubt be a defining moment in James McAvoy’s career.
Shhh! Lock the door, close the curtains. We’ve got to talk about the soundtrack to Channel 4’s violent cult conspiracy hit Utopia. Quietly.
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, when the world turns at Downton, it turns only in the direction of the past.
These days, there’s a viscous reverence for everything that Alan Moore creates; an effusive prayer when the bearded Old God stirs to grant us mortals new words and/or hurl lightning bolts at DC’s affronts to the creator rights. In the eyes of many, Alan Moore can do no wrong.
Written by and starring The Inbetweeners alumni Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, with Jonny Sweet, the first full series of Chickens arrives following a pilot on Channel 4 in 2011.
The first beat of the tale was a surprising one with the introduction to Jason (Jack Donnelly) taking place in the present day. Establishing our hero as a rootless young man in search of his father, we soon descended in a mini-sub and found ourselves drawn in the world of Atlantis. And it is a world, rather than the past, we are led to believe.