Posts By Matthew Turner
UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 16 (Broken Hearts)
April 14, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
This week’s Arrow sees the return of Cupid (Amy Gumenick), whose latest love-related shenanigans provide a convenient thematic excuse for a recently-broken up Olicity to thrash out their relationship issues, after Felicity literally walked out on … Read More
UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 6 (Star City 2046)
April 9, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
After spending the previous five episodes in the past, the Legends of Tomorrow head to the future in Episode 6, crash-landing, as the title indicates, in Star City, 2046. Fans of sister show Arrow will already … Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 15 (Taken)
April 9, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
Episode 15 of Arrow Season 4 features a guest appearance from D.C. superhero Vixen, making her live-action debut after starring in a series of animated shorts on CW Seed. Pleasingly, she’s played by Megalyn Echikunwoke, who … Read More
Netflix UK TV binge review: Daredevil Season 2 (Episode 12 and 13)
April 2, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers – if you haven’t seen episodes one to four, read our spoiler-free review of Daredevil Season 2. If you have seen them, share your spoilery thoughts in the comments below.
As Season 2 of Daredevil heads … Read More
UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 5 (Fail-Safe)
April 2, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
Last week’s episode of Legends of Tomorrow (effectively the first half of a two-parter) stumbled a little, as it split up the team and had them all doing not-very-interesting things alongside the main plot. This week’s … Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 14 (Code of Silence)
April 2, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
After a vengeful Malcolm Merlyn spilled the beans to Damien Darhk in the cliff-hanger to last week’s episode, it would have been extremely aggravating if the show had kept Darhk in the plot cupboard for yet … Read More
Netflix UK TV binge review: Daredevil Season 2 (Episodes 9, 10, 11)
March 26, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers – if you haven’t seen episodes one to four, read our spoiler-free review of Daredevil Season 2. If you have seen them, share your spoilery thoughts in the comments below.
As Daredevil moves into the last … Read More
UK TV recap: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 4 (White Knights)
March 26, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
After spending the first three episodes in 1975, the Legends of Tomorrow gang (hereafter known as the Legends) finally fire up the Waverider’s time-travel circuits and head to Soviet Russia in 1986, for the first instalment … Read More
UK TV recap: Arrow Season 4, Episode 13 (Sins of the Father)
March 26, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers.
Nicely teed up by last week’s cliff-hanger, Episode 13 of Arrow Season 4 is a relatively streamlined affair, in which Oliver wrestles with Nyssa’s ultimatum and Felicity works through some daddy issues. As the episode’s title … Read More
Netflix UK TV binge review: Daredevil Season 2 (Episodes 5 to 8)
March 21, 2016 | Matthew TurnerWarning: This contains spoilers – if you haven’t seen episodes one to four, read our spoiler-free review of Daredevil Season 2. If you have seen them, share your spoilery thoughts in the comments below.
With The Punisher unexpectedly behind bars … Read More