‘Vexed’: Series 2 Episode 1 review
BBC Two have got something incredible on their hands, again, and they should have faith in the viewers to enjoy a programme so full of character, life and humour.
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BBC Two have got something incredible on their hands, again, and they should have faith in the viewers to enjoy a programme so full of character, life and humour.
Although the finale feels hurried, it does not spoil what is without doubt the best episode of Sinbad yet.
Making The Bill look like In The Night Garden, Jed Mercurio has created one of the finest and most compelling police dramas of recent years. But it’s due to a uniformly strong cast, whose strengths have shown as the series has continued, that his gut-punch plotting and ‘spit & shit’ view of policing have succeeded. … >
Great Riker’s beard! The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation has finally made it to Blu-Ray, looking more impressive than a Borg conga line.
Though this somewhat slight film doesn’t quite hold up when compared to the Pixar classics, as a stand-alone venture Brave pretty much hits the mark.
Historical accuracy is not a term that was likely ever intended to be associated with Sinbad, and if it was not clear enough already, the latest episode well and truly cements it.
After battling criminal masterminds, horrible hounds, and even the giant rat of Sumatra, what’s left for Sherlock Holmes to face? How about a ‘sharktopus’?
If it’s not better than The Dark Knight, it’s at least as good. And that cements Nolan’s Batman series as among the finest trilogies the cinema has ever seen.
Anyone else watch the last moments of tonight’s Line of Duty through their fingers? We might have done. Be glad you still have those fingers. DS Arnott may soon not be so lucky… It’s become apparent that, like a vindictive cinema manager, writer Jed Mercurio does not want you to flat out enjoy watching Line … >
Presenting us with a lone, and perhaps lonesome, Eleventh Doctor, Dark Horizons is a trip further back into Earth’s history than the show often achieves on television.