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Reviews of TV series available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 11 (Vengeance Is Mine)
June 20, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: 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)
June 20, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: 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
June 20, 2016 | David FarnorWarning: 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
June 20, 2016 | David FarnorMore than your average ghost story, this creepy, character-driven drama is a pastoral horror show to savour.Read More
Catch up TV reviews: Eurotrash, Gogglesprogs, Interview with a Murderer
June 19, 2016 | David FarnorWhat’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.
(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our … Read More
Why you should be watching UnREAL on Amazon Prime Video
June 19, 2016 | Helen ArcherThere is something very fitting about the fact that it was Lifetime which picked up the darkly brilliant drama UnREAL last year. The natural home of the kind of output popular with predominately female viewers – from TV movies that … Read More
Amazon pilot reviews: The Interestings, The Last Tycoon, Little Big Awesome and more
June 18, 2016 | David FarnorAmazon’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
June 18, 2016 | David FarnorSay 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
Why you should be watching BBC Three’s Murder in Successville
June 16, 2016 | David FarnorThis 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
June 15, 2016 | David FarnorThis 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