‘Being Human’: Series 4 Episode 1 spoiler-free review
The first episode of Being Human‘s new series is uncompromisingly bleak, and utterly brilliant.
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The first episode of Being Human‘s new series is uncompromisingly bleak, and utterly brilliant.
Based on this first episode, the show’s confidence in itself hasn’t been dented by the loss of Andy Whitfield, and the story-telling remains impressively assured.
As the BBC’s long-running con drama comes to an end, Hustle still manages to attract the big names and this week sees features a turn from Mr Larger-Than-Life himself, Torchwood‘s John Barrowman.
Rich’s centric episode sees Grace waking up after the dramatic car crash in Morocco, but before Rich can snatch her up for himself, she is moved to a clinic in Switzerland.
This week’s central character, Rich, now separated from his heart’s desire, must come to terms with her absence.
If Family Guy is creator Seth MacFarlane’s twisted, cruder version of The Simpsons, then The Cleveland Show is his coarse remoulding of The Cosby Show for a 21st century audience.
Unashamedly for grown-ups, the 2011 espionage thriller is a stylish and intelligent account of John le Carré’s novel.
For a drama about war, a surprising amount of dying happens quietly off-screen in the concluding part of Philip Martin’s adaptation of Birdsong, to devastating effect.
For the Doctor Who fan, no events were more saddening last year than the twin losses of Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen – the latter’s passing made all the more incomprehensible by those eternally youthful looks.
DI Chandler and the team are back tomorrow night on ITV1, as crime drama Whitechapel returns for a third run.