‘Merlin’: Series 4 Episode 2 spoiler-free review
After a promising premiere, Merlin falls back into some bad habits with this follow-up.
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After a promising premiere, Merlin falls back into some bad habits with this follow-up.
After last week’s slightly slow story, Spooks springs back to form with a relentless pace and one of its finest episodes not just in this series, but its entire ten year run.
It seems now’s the right time to launch this new monthly blog bathing in the light relief that is bloody murder, torture-porn and psychological oblivion.
The second of Series 5’s three two-part tales opens with a jinxed Native American totem pole and an unusual rainstorm over London: a downpour of trout.
After some faltering early steps – poised precariously between enthralling paranormal drama and trying-too-hard teenage vom-com – The Fades has finally found the right balance.
In the second part of Series 5’s opening story, Sarah Jane and her Scooby gang continue to protect the life of an innocent.
Supernatural is a show that – much like many of the creatures, ghosts and ghouls that populate its universe – just refuses to die.
Downton Abbey has played this cat and mouse game with us so many times before that we no longer know what’s misdirection and what’s just saggy plotting.
From the soft grainy film sequences to one of the spookiest title sequences ever devised for television, even the sight of the HTV logo is sufficient to induce a nostalgia rush.
The bridging between two different mediums could easily have not worked, yet the motion comic feels appropriately dramatic and pacy, and for this it must be applauded.