As Dexter villains go, the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow) – with his love of deer, family, opening femoral arteries and his Yoda-like fascination for the show’s hero – was always going to be a hard act to follow.
Appropriate Adult is very far from being light and formulaic, and makes for discomfiting viewing – as it should.
Like many kids growing up in the ‘90s, my first exposure to Japanese animation was Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic 1988 movie, Akira.
Gathered to discuss the runaway BBC Two sitcom Miranda at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2011 were its stars Miranda Hart and Sarah Hadland.
BBC One have released a new clip reel for the channel’s upcoming drama, factual and entertainment programming this winter, including the first glimpse of Sherlock‘s second series.
‘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.
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.
In a 2007 interview, Scream franchise director Wes Craven said, ‘Horror is very close to comedy. It’s a lot of talking about the forbidden in a way that is entertaining and the timing is very similar.’
If you’ve recently seen E4’s comedy drama, Beaver Falls – which looks like Ibsen compared to this – you’ll know the drill.
Stand By Me is perhaps one of the best coming-of-age movies of all time.