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Reviews of TV series available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 10: Buried
August 19, 2013 | Andrew JonesPhoto: © 2013 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Warning: The following review will have spoilers for the past five seasons of Breaking Bad and a degree of plot discussion of the latest episode.
After the Season Five … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 9: Blood Money
August 12, 2013 | Andrew JonesPhoto: © 2013 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Warning: The following review will have spoilers for the past five seasons of Breaking Bad and a degree of plot discussion of the latest episode.
Well, we’re here. The … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 5 – Part 1
August 12, 2013 | RubyPhoto: © 2013 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The beginning of the end.
The eight episodes that make up Season Five Part One of Breaking Bad have an obvious slower pace compared to previous seasons. It certainly … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 4
August 7, 2013 | RubyPhoto: Lewis Jacobs / AMC
Let’s face it: if you’re in a position to watch Season Four of multi-award-winning Breaking Bad, you hardly need coaxing to reach your mouse and click the button below.
Part two of Season Five (the … Read More
Amazon Prime TV review: The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 3
August 2, 2013 | Ivan Radford“Tell it to the frogs.” It sounds silly, but Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) means it when she says it to Shane (Jon Bernthal). Why? Because she’s just been reunited with her husband, Rick (Andrew Lincoln).
Yes, only three episodes into … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 3
July 29, 2013 | RubyThis season begins where Season Two left off, in the aftermath of a mid-air plane collision, caused by a grieving air-traffic controller. With the tragedy affecting the whole community (some more than others), out of the sombre tone comes the … Read More
Amazon Prime TV review: Vikings Season 1, Episode 3
July 23, 2013 | Ivan Radford“You landed in the kingdom of Northumbria…”
Dialogue doesn’t get much better than that in Vikings, the History Channel’s slightly trashy take on Scandinavia’s spiky-headed past. Episode Three, Dispossessed, marks a big step forward for the show, as nuance lands … Read More
Amazon Prime TV Review: The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 2
July 22, 2013 | Ivan RadfordThe Walking Dead continues its first season on LOVEFiLM Instant with Guts. It’s a suitable name for Episode Two – it’s full of the stuff. And sadly, not that much else.
After literally riding into town to save the day, … Read More
Amazon Prime TV review: The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 1
July 12, 2013 | Ivan RadfordIt’s not often you like a character who says almost nothing at al. Then again, it’s not often you see The Walking Dead. Frank Darabont’s series, based on the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, starts … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Breaking Bad Season 2
July 9, 2013 | RubyFor Season Two of Breaking Bad, the episode count almost doubles to a more conventional 13 episodes so you might think the writers would take their collective foot off the gas. Thankfully, they don’t, so we get to hang out … Read More