‘Doctor Who’: ‘Night Terrors’ spoiler-free review
Thankfully, unlike the re-opener, this week’s Doctor Who can be safely and fully discussed without fear of inadvertently revealing a spoiler or twelve.
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Thankfully, unlike the re-opener, this week’s Doctor Who can be safely and fully discussed without fear of inadvertently revealing a spoiler or twelve.
After the naked fight scenes and perennial nudity of last week’s episode, the second instalment of Sky1’s Strike Back: Project Dawn reels in some of the more outrageous aspects of the show.
We were worried. We were scared that Steven Moffat had finally overreached himself and that ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ might be as disappointing as the conclusion of the otherwise majestic ‘A Good Man Goes to War’. We were wrong. Picking up a few hazy summer months after that strangely numbing mid-series finale, a bombardment of instantly … >
Written and directed by David Kane from the novel by Denise Mina, The Field of Blood is a thriller so smothered in nicotinic, 1980s nostalgia it could almost be called ‘Fag-ashes to Fag-ashes’.
Imitating the onscreen title from Doctor Who‘s Series 3 finale (which itself was a BSG nod), the latest installment of its Earthbound spin’-off begins with the words ‘Two Months Later’.
The dilemma of whether to serve the interests of one’s country, one’s loved ones or one’s superiors lies at the heart of David Hare’s one-off spy thriller.
‘It gets better,’ Jack Harkness remarks, perhaps having viewed the rushes of Episode 7, ‘then it gets worse again.’ If any story is a microcosm of the season as a whole, it’s this one.
Doctor Who returns following an extended summer break to provide us with a viewing alternative to the myriad reality shows that have appeared back in the schedules. And my word, is it good to have the show back!
European police procedurals are very much in vogue at the moment following the surprise success of Denmark’s The Killing, but where this Paris-set series suffers somewhat from a surfeit of characters and plot lines.
This is so immersive a world for the viewer that, after only one episode, we longed to put on a v-neck sweater, grease our hair, and smoke an awful lot of cigarettes.