UK VOD TV review: The Flash Episode 17

While The Flash rewound the tape in its previous episode, Tricksters returns the show to its default fast forward mode, and it’s an hour that showcases much of what The Flash has become very good at – specifically, great action, … Read More

UK VOD TV recap: Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1

Warning: This contains spoilers. For a spoiler-free review of Episode 1, click here.

Game of Thrones has, in the past two seasons, dealt out more trauma to audiences than most other TV shows combined. How, then, can Season 5 top … Read More

Amazon UK TV review: Vikings Season 3, Episode 8 (To the Gates!)

Vikings found itself up the proverbial river last week, as it tried to introduce Paris and all its political tensions to us, while still dragging us back to England to follow the blood-thirsty Brits. The resulting mesh of villains we … Read More

UK VOD TV review: Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 1 (spoiler-free)

Game of Thrones has, in the past two seasons, dealt out more trauma to audiences than most other TV shows combined. How, then, can Season 5 top what’s gone before? The answer, of course, is that it can’t, but the … Read More

Netflix TV binge review: Marvel’s Daredevil Season 1 (Episodes 6 – 8)

If you haven’t seen Episodes 1 to 5 of Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix, this will contain spoilers.

“I’d like to speak to the man in the mask, please.”

After five episodes of agonised waiting, Matt finally gets his first conversation … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 9

Warning: This contains minor spoilers.

If the first half of Outlander Season 1 was a celebration of a woman’s independent identity, it concluded with a bit of a dilemma: the rescuing of Claire from the clutches of Black Jack Randall. … Read More

Sky VOD TV review: Fortitude Episode 11 (finale)

Warning: If you haven’t watched the previous episodes of Fortitude, this will contain spoilers.

“A loving God could not have created something so wicked.”

That’s what Darwin apparently wrote about the wasps that, it turns out, have been the force … Read More

ITV review: Thunderbirds Are Go! (Episodes 1 to 3)

You can tell a lot about a TV show from its title. Thunderbirds Are Go! – with the emphasis firmly on that exclamation mark – takes the Gerry Anderson puppets of old and puts them in motion. And then some. … Read More

UK VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 18 (Public Enemy)

You have to hand it to Arrow. Once again, they have pulled off an episode that could easily have been the season finale – except, once again, it isn’t, and they still have five episodes left to go. All of … Read More

First look Netflix TV review: Marvel’s Daredevil Season 1 (spoiler-free)

While Marvel Studios’ reign over the box office seems set to continue for many years, it’s fair to say that their forays into television haven’t been quite so successful. The critics may love Agent Carter but it’s struggling to keep … Read More