UK VOD TV review: The Flash Episode 9, The Man in the Yellow Suit (mid-season finale)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

When The Flash debuted back in October, we noted how impressed we were with its confidence in tone and identity. Now that we’re at the mid-point of the first season, it’s perhaps even more notable to … Read More

First look Amazon Prime TV review: Mozart in the Jungle

Gael Garcia Bernal plays a sexy conductor in Amazon’s new original TV series, Mozart in the Jungle. If that sentence doesn’t make the show stand out from the crowd, the subject matter certainly will: the backstage life of the New … Read More

UK TV review: Adventure Time (Season 1 and Season 2)

To get a good sense of precisely why Adventure Time, a Cartoon Network show ostensibly aimed at kids, has gathered such a cult audience around the world, you only need to look at the way it ends its episodes.

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Amazon TV review: Ripper Street Season 3, Episode 7

New episodes of Ripper Street Season 3 are added exclusively to Amazon Prime Instant Video every Friday.

Warning: If you haven’t seen any of Season 3, this will contain spoilers.

Netflix UK TV review: All Hail King Julien

Let’s not beat around the jungle. Madagascar has had something of an uneven track record across its various sequels (number four is in the works), but it has had one constant: King Julien, the wonderfully deluded leader of a tribe … Read More

VOD TV review: Arrow and The Flash crossover episodes

With Episode 8 of The Flash and Episode 8 of Arrow Season 3 creating a two-part crossover episode, our own super writing team of Amon Warmann and Matthew Turner join forces for their own Arrow / The Flash crossover review.

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UK TV review: Constantine Episode 8 (The Saint of Last Resort)

You can always tell when a TV series is getting confident: they add a cliffhanger. After seven episodes (and just in time for its mid-season break), Constantine is getting confident.

The clues arrive almost immediately, as we’re introduced to Anne-Marie … Read More

UK VOD TV review: The Knick Episode 10 (Crutchfield)

It’s a good job that The Knick was renewed for a second season before the first episode even aired, because ‘Crutchfield’ would suck as a finale to the show. Despite being crammed full of plot points and character details, there’s … Read More

UK VOD TV review: Sons of Anarchy Finale Ride, Episode 13 (Papa’s Goods)

Sons of Anarchy’s final episode is about fate, good and evil, the big picture and legacy. Big, powerful themes, but that’s really the only way to go out.

Kurt Sutter (who collects the writer and director credits for Papa’s Goods) … Read More

UK TV review: American Horror Story Freak Show (Episode 9)

After the carnage of cast members in Episode 8, murder most horrid continues to reign over the Floridian suburb of Jupiter. With just two episodes left, we’ve reached that point in American Horror Story Season 4 where no one is … Read More