Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2, Episode 4 (Happy Birthday to Me)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Scream the TV series has so far been a writer’s affair, knowingly playing with the cliches of the genre and unknowingly doing so with ultra-cheesy dialogue. Episode 4 of Season 2, though, proves that it can … Read More

UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 11 (Vengeance Is Mine)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

It’s not easy being the head of the Jacobite Rebellion. Firstly, your nickname is Bonnie. Secondly, you look and sound like a petulant schoolboy. And thirdly, nobody in your war cabinet can agree on what the … Read More

UK TV review: Penny Dreadful Season 3, Episode 7 (Ebb Tide)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Who’s the better boyfriend: Dr. Frankenstein or Dracula? Any TV show based around that question deserves to win all the awards. As Penny Dreadful Season 3 nears its conclusion, that dilemma has never been more keenly … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2, Episode 3

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Will she or won’t she? That’s the question we’re left with by the end of Episode 3 of Scream’s second season. It’s a significantly more exciting question than the previous one: Did she or didn’t she? … Read More

Why The Living and the Dead should be your next box set

More than your average ghost story, this creepy, character-driven drama is a pastoral horror show to savour.Read More

Amazon pilot reviews: The Interestings, The Last Tycoon, Little Big Awesome and more

Amazon’s summer 2016 pilot season is here, with two adult dramas and six kids’ series available for anyone (including non-Amazon Prime Video subscribers) to stream for free. Audience feedback is then used to choose which pilots get commissioned to become … Read More

10 years on: How YouTube’s Lonelygirl15 help invent the web series

Say the words “Lonelygirl15” to someone these days and you’ll likely be met with faint recognition. “Oh yeah, that YouTube hoax”, they might say. “How long ago was that?” The answer is 10 years ago.

16th June 2006. That was … Read More

VOD film review: Tale of Tales

This dark trio of fairy tales is unabashedly bonkers and enchantingly unique.Read More

Why you should be watching BBC Three’s Murder in Successville

This hilarious, inventive improv crime comedy series is one of the most unique things on TV.Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: Orange Is the New Black Season 4

This spoiler-free review is based on Episodes 1 to 4 of Orange Is the New Black Season 4.

Gangsta with an “a” is how Piper describes herself at the start of Orange Is the New Black Season 4. It’s exactly … Read More