The second instalment of the new series sees what started as a fairly narrow story opening up around John Luther (Idris Elba) as he searches for salvation amid the wreckage of his private life and the darkness that his life as a policeman brings him into incessant contact with.
With a spooky alien menace in a modern day English setting, ‘The Awakening’ is a two-part adventure featuring a feisty female companion, a slightly cowardly, wryly amusing male counterpart and an energetic, good-humoured Time Lord who conveys an incredible sense of age and wisdom in spite of his youthful appearance.
The Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet turn up in Tombstone, Arizona, 1881, just in time for the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral.
A complete and unexpurgated knowledge of the truth is what DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the viewers who have followed his exploits through every twist and bloodstained turn of this expansive, intricately-plotted thriller deserve; and happily, it’s precisely what they get.
When one half of comedy horror series The League Of Gentlemen’s acting and writing quartet, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, were commissioned by the BBC to write the first series of this superficially similar oddball production, the assumption was that it may be a lesser variant on the Royston Vasey mould.
So, the second and final season of science fiction TV and disaster movie producer Irwin Allen’s camp 1960s classic finally arrives on DVD.
After five nights of misleading flashbacks, misremembered evidence and mystifyingly un-barrister-like behaviour, the verdict is in on Anthony Horowitz’s suffocation-in-Suffolk psychodrama.
Last time, we were discussing the logic and challenge of producing a sitcom that has more sit than com. In this, the final episode of Psychoville’s second series, that trend continues.
After several weeks of soul-searching and self-doubt, DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finally establishes which side of the line he was on before being shot in the head – and who his real enemies are.
Based on author Michel Faber’s best-selling romp of a novel, this lavish BBC Two adaptation presents Victorian London as a hellish, heady brew of filth, degraded innocence and hypocrisy.