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Reviews of TV series available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
UK TV review: Low Winter Sun
November 4, 2013 | Chris Bryant
Mark Strong stars in this bleak, unpredictable, subtle crime drama.Read More
VOD TV review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 5 (Girl In The Flower Dress)
October 30, 2013 | Neil Brazier
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We’re into the fifth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but it feels like the order of the episodes got confused. This week, the location of one of the powered humans on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s “index” is … Read More
VOD TV review: Homeland Season 3 Episode 4 (Game On)
October 29, 2013 | David Farnor
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“The agency is weak, Saul. It could die of a common cold. And she’s a full-blown contagion.”
That’s Dar Adal (F. Murray Mozart-killer Abrahams) chatting to Saul (Mandy Patinkin) about Carrie … Read More
Amazon Prime TV review: Crossing Lines (Episode 1 and 2)
October 25, 2013 | Andrew Jones
Amazon’s new acquisition, Crossing Lines, sees William Fichtner – of Drive Angry, Heat and Elysium fame – as Carl Hickman, a former New York detective hiding out in Amsterdam with an injured hand but a deductive mind. Hickman’s brilliance is called … Read More
VOD TV review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 4, Eye Spy)
October 23, 2013 | Neil Brazier
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Opening with over a dozen men all dressed in grey suits and creepy red masks, Episode Four introduces a darker tone to Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. This week, a former protégé of Coulson appears … Read More
VOD TV review: Homeland Season 3, Episode 3 (Tower of David)
October 21, 2013 | David Farnor
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Welcome back, Brody. All is forgiven. Well, you know, except for the terrorism and stuff.
That was the point we had reached with Homeland, a show that used to be about … Read More
VOD TV review: Homeland Season 3, Episode 2 (Uh… Oh… Ah…)
October 17, 2013 | David Farnor
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Uh. Oh. Ah. Not just the title of Episode 2 of Homeland Season 3, but the noise you’ll make while watching it. After an intriguing start to the new run, which … Read More
VOD TV review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD (Episode 3, The Asset)
October 15, 2013 | Neil Brazier
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Taking a more supernatural turn this week, a S.H.I.E.L.D outrigger is transporting precious cargo to a more secure location when the entire lorry and its convoy protection are lifted off the ground and thrown … Read More
UK TV review: Dollhouse Season 2
October 10, 2013 | Philip W Bayles
Big ideas meet crushing pessimism in Dollhouse’s rough but fascinating second run.Read More
VOD TV review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Episode 2, 0-8-4)
October 9, 2013 | Neil Brazier
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The team travel to Peru to investigate an artefact that may be out of this world and run into more than they bargained for in 0-8-4, when an old flame of Agent Coulson turns … Read More
