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.
In direct contrast to its predecessor, ‘A Good Man Goes To War’ is a stunning, iconic celebration of everything that makes Doctor Who so good, let down by an ending so tepid it’s like finishing the best meal you’ve ever had with a glass of lukewarm orange squash.
The arrival of yet another British crime drama series isn’t necessarily reason to break out a bottle of champagne and smash it against the side of the telly. Happily, Case Histories is more than capable of fighting its corner.
When is a sitcom not a sitcom? When the Venn diagram of situation to comedy is balanced heavily in favour of the non-funny bits? This certainly seems to be the case with Psychoville as it nears the end of its second series.
Nobody’s safe. Anyone can die. There is no ‘main’ cast. And nobody is who they first appear to be.