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

UK TV review: Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1, Episodes 6 – 8

Spins a web of intrigue that would put most other dramas to shame.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

Daredevil Season 1: A great crime drama in its own right

Both a great crime drama in its own right and a welcome addition to the Marvel universe.Read More

UK TV review: Mad Men Season 7, Episode 8 (Severance)

The final half of the final season of Mad Men opens with a girl looking directly down the camera, identical to Freddy Rumsen’s introduction to Season 7 Part 1 – “It’s about time” – except now, it’s not so much … Read More

Amazon UK TV review: Vikings Season 3, Episode 7 (Paris)

Warning: This contains spoilers for anyone who has not seen Episodes 1 to 6 of Vikings Season 3. Read on at your peril.

So, Athelstan is dead – and with him goes one of Vikings’ most interesting characters. How … Read More