Why The Honourable Woman should be your next box set

It seems fair to call The Honourable Woman the BBC’s answer to Homeland, because there are several crucial elements that are very similar. Identikit opening credit montage? Check. A complex female lead? Check – Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the decorated Baroness … Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 2, Episode 12

With just minutes left until we reach the reckoning of Season 2, Hannibal continues with the final few strides of the great chase. But what has been the objective of that chase? For Will to catch Hannibal? For Hannibal to … Read More

VOD TV review: True Blood Season 7 Episode 3 (Fire in the Hole)

As the body count rises thick and fast in the final season of True Blood, it was inevitable that, faced with their own mortality, the show’s characters (and indirectly the show’s writers) would have to contemplate loss. As Season 7 … Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 2, Episode 11 (Ko No Mono)

Across the last few episodes, as the supposedly well-meaning, flawed but ultimately ‘good’ Will Graham slips further and further down the path to his own destruction, you have to wonder what his parents must think of him. From taking some … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Hemlock Grove Season 2

A troubled young girl – caught up in mysterious and dangerous goings on – is torn between her love for the rugged werewolf and the tall, blonde vampire in a town that exudes grunge and rains endlessly. Sound familiar? It … Read More

VOD TV recap: 24 Live Another Day Episode 12

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“One day, I won’t remember any of this anyway…”

That’s President Heller looking back over the previous 24 hours of Live Another Day. That’s right, 24 hours covered in just 12 episodes – because this climactic … Read More

VOD TV recap: 24 Live Another Day Episode 11

Warning: This contains spoilers.

What’s the one thing scarier than foreigners? FOREIGNERS WORKING TOGETHER.

Episode 11 of 24: Live Another Day took the show’s conservative politics to the point of no return by revealing that not only is Evil Chinese … Read More

UK TV review: Utopia Season 2, Episode 2

This contains spoilers for Season 1 of Utopia. Not caught up? See our spoiler-free review here.

“Hello, I’m Ross. I’ll be your new interrogator.”

That’s the way all characters seem to introduce themselves in Utopia; a violent threat under a … Read More

UK TV review: Utopia Season 2, Episode 1

This contains spoilers for Season 1 of Utopia. Not caught up? See our spoiler-free review here.

How do you follow the first season of a conspiracy thriller?

That’s the problem facing Dennis Kelly. Season 1 decoded Utopia’s central puzzle: it … Read More

VOD TV review: True Blood Season 7 Episode 2 (You Found Me)

This contains minor spoilers.

As becomes common with popular sci-fi shows, paying lip service to the rabid fans is often par for the course. The opening sequence for Episode 2 of True Blood’s final season is one of the finest … Read More