This was a very odd week for OUT. As a stand-alone episode it wasn’t bad, as part of an over-reaching arc, however, it didn’t seem to advance the cause much, so to speak. It just through in a couple of unnecessary-seeming complications and ran away. It is Prince Charming’s (Josh Dallas’) turn to have an
Black Mirror is a satirical, suspenseful series about our collective unease with the modern world by Charlie Brooker. The first episode, National Anthem, is about an internet troll who kidnaps a princess and demands the Prime Minister (Rory Kinnear) commits an indecent act with a pig. Michael Callow, the Prime Minister, boyish and balding, obviously
Just an FYI to any production company out there, don’t call your show Unforgettable. As a critic, it is almost impossible to ignore the potential in a tagline: Unforgettable was forgettable. Even thought it wasn’t…quite. A vehicle for the talents of Without A Trace’s Poppy Montgomery, Unforgettable is about an ex-police detective with a superior
This time the body that Eve Lockhart and her forensic elves are farming for information is that of an occasionally criminal Irish man, Conor, found floating in the sea. Hale, whose bout of being interesting last week turns out to be an anomaly, quickly pegs it as a case of ‘collecting the post’ gone wrong
Last week the body-farm team had a glut of body-parts after an explosion splashed two-people-goo all over the a flat. This week they have only one, a sweaty, beige right hand with the skin rotted right off. Don’t worry, they found the rest of the body soon enough. Buried in compost – tips for the
This has been a very, very long week for me, it is late (well, it is for me. I am getting old) and I have a headache. So I am sure I have this wrong and Miracle Day was not a metaphor for the fear of vaginas. Right? For a start, it is a bit
After probably three seasons too long – after the children Nazi agents parachuted into England season finale there was no coming back as far as I was concerned – Waking the Dead went quietly into that good TV night with a final success for the erratic, brilliant Boyd (Trevor Eve). Most of the team went quietly
There were four of us in a room, three of us had no idea what was going on; one of us pretended her fingers were Jack’s penis and postulated that the Blessing was a giant testicle severed from Jack and grown to disgusting size. Let’s be honest, that is probably more of an idea than
It is a week of revelations. Some are interesting, some are not so much. The Skitter’s bipedal, attenuated, sting-ray faced overlords? Interesting. Weaver’s family? Not so much. Look, people infer things about other people all the time. It is how society works, we infer moods and histories and attitudes from what our peers say, don’t
On the plus side, we didn’t have to deal with the paedophile messiah this week, the less we see of him the better (no offense to the character, but Oswald Danes is at once repugnant and ridiculous as a character concept) and Rhys got his bad-ass moment of the season. On the other side, despite
This was actually a really good episode. It was full of tension, well-paced and mostly free of the awkward expositionary attacks that plagued the first few episodes. That said? Man, tropes ahoy. If I had been playing the end-of-the-world drinking game, I would have been blootered by the halfway mark. There’s a spirited game of
Dr Juarez, confronted by the reality of the new American health-care system, calls Rex. ‘I’m in,’ she says, determined to fight this ‘Miracle’. It would have been an iconic moment, except Juarez has been in and out so many times that it is like she is playing the hokey-cokey. The fact that it has taken
