When Shannon Matthews disappeared in 2008, the resulting search and eventual fallout felt like something straight out of a TV drama, so shocking and unimaginable was the result. How appropriate then that, almost a decade on, the tale finds itself the subject of a major BBC One drama. Wisely, The Moorside steers clear of obvious … >
“Courts aren’t about the truth. They’re about who tells the best story.” The sex in public, the family politics and the vagaries of the legal system have pushed us to this conclusion where the fate of Yvonne Carmichael is in the hands of twelve strangers in the jury rather than the one stranger who led … >
Brilliant writing, brought to life by fine acting, shines in the sixth episode of ITV’s new hotel drama. We’re now in October of 1940 and we’re focused on the nighttime exploits of the inhabitants of the Halcyon. Emma joins the Women’s Voluntary Services and provides tea to overworked firefighters and escorts the injured to medical … >
“What have I done?” Give a Monkey a baby and heating element and the results are up for debate but give an intelligent, romantically naive woman enough rope and they could end up hanging themselves. It turns out Mr Costley wasn’t delivering take away food to George Selway but take away life. As they flee … >
More than once in this episode of Call the Midwife, characters are placed in difficult situations and challenged to make hard decisions with only a moment’s notice. We’ve seen almost all the characters do this before, but the stakes are high as the maternity home is under scrutiny and a baby’s life is in danger. … >
I know we’re talking about tonight’s episode, but hold on a mo and answer me the following… If I told you that next Saturday’s episode of Taboo features Tom Hollander’s Mr Cholmondely vigorously masturbating into a batch on gunpowder, and a backroom orgy during a cockfight, would you believe me? Yes? No? Maybe just one … >
The penultimate episode of ITV’s thrilling crime drama’s second season unravels the secrets of the past, leading to the killer of David Walker, a man who committed unsavoury acts and leaving his victims in turmoil. Detective duo, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DS Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) are back on track interrogating some unreliable … >
This week’s episode is surprisingly gore free, but delivers a terrifying set piece when a stray polar bear enters Fortitude’s primary school and traps a child inside. The sequence is a chilling call back to the series’ very first scene, in which an intoxicated Henry Tyson accidentally shot Billy Pettigrew instead of the polar bear … >
After last week’s slightly more formulaic episode, this week’s Death in Paradise goes international as the gang relocate to London for an investigation into a British sailor’s death whose potential suspects have all fled back to the UK. “They all checked out this morning. Got the first flight home at 6am.” This is a really … >
“There are no more refuges for me, no places of safety.” If last week was all about the fantasy then episode two serves as heavy doses of reality crashing to the floor. Yvonne goes from flaunting it in public spaces to hiding in her own home. The tone shifts drastically to one of creeping suspense … >