‘Black Mirror’ DVD review
Charlie Brooker’s triptych of dystopian tales that make up Black Mirror are a perfect reflection of our modern life lived in 21st Century Britain.
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Charlie Brooker’s triptych of dystopian tales that make up Black Mirror are a perfect reflection of our modern life lived in 21st Century Britain.
White Heat is immediately engrossing and deeply melancholy: an elegy for happiness shot through with dope, rock ‘n’ roll and shagging.
Although there are questions left hanging as the credits roll, the ultimate sense one is left with at the conclusion of Inside Men is satisfaction.
Underneath the main story the Series 4 arc begins to knit together in some rather clever ways that’ll likely elicit an ‘ahh!’ or an ‘ooh!’ or maybe both.
After a Christmas episode full of merrisense and hilariousment, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff returns to BBC Two with made-up words and Dickensian nonsensitude aplenty.
It’s been an incredible rollercoaster of a ride from start to finish, but now we’ve finally reached the outstandingly satisfying finale of Hustle.
Long before Neil Patrick Harris decided to “Suit up!” for How I Met Your Mother, he sutured up as the teenage medical genius Douglas ‘Doogie’ Howser.
Upstairs Downstairs is a much more brittle drama than the more emotionally demonstrative Downton Abbey.
Appropriately for an episode set partly in a café, this felt like more of a bread and butter episode of Being Human – and yet, there are still elements in it to intrigue.
After two very different but very strong episodes The Graveyard Shift feels as much like a warning as it does a title.