VOD TV review: The Musketeers (BBC) – Episode 1

Photo: BBC/Dusan Martincek

There’s no getting round it. BBC’s new sword-slashing drama The Musketeers is rather pants. In fact, pants feature rather heavily; there’s barely a scene where our heroic quartet aren’t slipping in or out of their trousers after … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Sherlock Season 3 Episode 3 (His Last Vow)

Warning: This review contains mild spoilers.

“The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.”

It’s hard to know exactly how you would react to the news that the woman you’ve just married … Read More

Netflix TV review: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 9

It is fair to say most comedy shows entering their ninth season start to show signs of wear and tear. After all, a lot of comedy is based on relationships that can only logically exist for a short period of … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Sherlock Season 3 Episode 2 (The Sign of Three)

Warning: This review contains mild spoilers.

We all know what to expect from a wedding, just as we all know what to expect from an episode of Sherlock, but The Sign of Three skipped the old, blue and borrowed and … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Sherlock Holmes Season 3, Episode 1 (The Empty Hearse)

Warning: This review contains mild spoilers.

How did Sherlock fake his death? The Empty Hearse, the first episode of Season Three, finally gives us some answers. In fact, it gives us three. And, along the way, throws in an appearance … Read More

Netflix TV review: Roger & Val Have Just Got In (Season 1)

Roger (Alfred Molina), an occasionally rash, socialist botanist and Val (Dawn French), a logical, gentle food technology teacher, have just got in from work. And for half an hour after this, we’re allowed an insight into their lives. Their silly, … Read More

UK TV review: The Time of the Doctor (2013 Christmas special)

“And now it’s time for one last bow, like all your other selves. 11’s hour is over now, the clock is striking 12.”

That’s the poem Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) reads to The Doctor (Matt Smith) as his finale arrives. … Read More

VOD TV review: Downton Abbey – 2013 Christmas special

In what has to be the most pointless, uninspiring and complete dearth of entertainment available this Christmas, Downton Abbey returns to make absolutely no strides in any manner. Continuing what little story was left over from the end of Season … Read More

First-look TV review: Netflix’s Turbo F.A.S.T.

When Turbo underwhelmed earlier this year, both critically and at the box office, the notion of a spin-off animated show was one that no one really screamed out for: Turbo was a rather sluggish story full of racial stereotypes, messy … Read More

NOW TV review: Yonderland (Season 1, Episode 8)

“Your bullets are no match for my sword.”

Yonderland leaps into its final episode head first – with Simon Farnaby getting script credit as his Negatus takes another major role, faking his way through a quest with Debbie to trap … Read More