VOD TV review: Broadchurch Season 2, Episode 7

Warning: If you haven’t seen Season 1, this will contain spoilers.

Closing speeches are a gift for films and TV series. Dramatic. Rousing. Full of heightened emotion and theatrical rhetoric. Episode 7 of Broadchurch Season 2 impresses, then, by … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Better Call Saul Episode 3 (Nacho)

This will contain spoilers for Better Call Saul Episode 1 and 2.

“Get out of here today or you’re a dead man.”

Episode 3 is when Better Call Saul gets serious – but, impressively, is also when it gets funnier. … Read More

UK VOD TV review: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 10 (Them)

“We ain’t them,” says Daryl (Norman Reedus), disgusted that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) could compare them to the zombies that have plagued this new world. But watching Episode 10 of Season 5, you could be forgiven for blurring the lines.

The … Read More

UK VOD TV review: Girls Season 4, Episode 5

Ah, finally. There it is. Both the very worst day of Hannah’s life (that was on the cards since the end of Season 3) and, paradoxically, the very best episode of Girls so far this season. Thanks, Lena Dunham – … Read More

UK TV review: Constantine Episode 13 (Waiting for The Man)

“The darkness is coming. Heralded by someone close to you. By someone who will betray you.”

Those were the words of Papa Midnite back in the second episode of Constantine – words that set up what promised to be a … Read More

UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 4

Words. Words. Just words.

If Wolf Hall could be accused of anything, it’s of being over-written. Slow-paced, stuffed with characters and told in a present tense without a name for its main character, the unwieldy trait of Hilary Mantel’s novels … Read More

UK VOD TV review: The Flash Episode 10

The final 2014 episode of The Flash capped off its first nine episodes in style, with revelations aplenty pushing a number of big story lines forward. As such, we were anxious to see how things would progress in the mid-season … Read More

VOD TV recap: Arrow Season 3, Episode 10

Let’s face it, it would have been nigh-on impossible to top Arrow’s glorious mid-season finale, which, in case you needed reminding, left Oliver Queen run through with a sword and kicked off a cliff by Ra’s al Ghul. After that … Read More

BBC iPlayer review: Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)

If you’ve ever wondered why the world today is so messed up, or why the news doesn’t include random clips from Carry On Up the Khyber, then Bitter Lake is for you.

Adam Curtis’ documentary first aired in a small, … Read More

Sky TV review: Fortitude Episode 3

Warning: If you have not seen Episode 1 or 2 of Fortitude, this will contain spoilers. Both are available to catch up with on NOW.

“I’m a drunk for reasons all of my own,” yells Michael Gambon in Episode 3 … Read More