‘Desperate Housewives’: Last ever episode review
After 180 episodes, 50 or so deaths, countless affairs, the backstabbing, the bitchiness, the rivalries, the break-ups and reconciliations… it all ends here.
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After 180 episodes, 50 or so deaths, countless affairs, the backstabbing, the bitchiness, the rivalries, the break-ups and reconciliations… it all ends here.
Don Draper, omniscient idol of advertising, is starting to age, starting to lose his Midas touch, and starting to show the ultimate weakness of an ad man.
Set in the world of corporate law, Suits is a smart and stylish American import that has been doing the numbers for Dave.
As a reintroduction to such a sprawling, complex series, this is pretty near perfect.
Aided by Jennifer Lawrence’s lead performance, the writers don’t lose any of the psychological nuances that helped make the novel so compelling.
Making History is the grimmest episode since the series opener, but whereas Eve of the War was a work of flesh and violence, this is one living in the shadow of looming horror.
Tom Grieves’ A Spectre Calls – even the title is perfect – is a thing of glory: an episode that constantly treads the line between creepy and funny.
Charlie Brooker’s triptych of dystopian tales that make up Black Mirror are a perfect reflection of our modern life lived in 21st Century Britain.
After last week’s bamboozler of an opener, tonight’s follow-up was an attempt to restore normal service with a return to the domestic comedy of earlier series.
The fifth and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, though a bittersweet experience, is the last great reminder of why generations have fallen for the feisty reporter.