“Legacy of Death” Review
Hitting a new low, this is where The Avengers ceases to bother being The Avengers and transmutes into a sketch-show featuring a single 50-minute sketch riffing crudely on The Maltese Falcon and other films of […]
Hitting a new low, this is where The Avengers ceases to bother being The Avengers and transmutes into a sketch-show featuring a single 50-minute sketch riffing crudely on The Maltese Falcon and other films of […]
Should this feel like a guilty pleasure? There are several reasons to regard the episode, as I did on first viewing, as a dud. Primarily there’s the fact that Tara […]
Disposable but somewhat charming and irresistibly well directed – in fact, it’s hard to hate a Crichton directed episode. There’s a lot of good urban location shots, and great atmosphere. But […]
It’s a rare pleasure when you really have no idea where an episode will take you next. In a restaurant for an excruciating first date? Under the bed in a […]
The unfortunate central conceit here, as reflected in the title, is the anthropomorphisation of a computer – and not an artificial intelligence, or a machine that could hold anything like […]
A somewhat routine episode, with a mildly interesting plot concerning a kind of partial mind transfer that is hugely compromised by Who’s Who??? in which a far more sophisticated form of […]
In theory we have the ingredients here for what should be a solid episode. The plot concerns what looks, to modern eyes, very much like an anthrax scare. Okay, so […]
I suppose I should have realised that there was a danger that having two iconic heroes in one story would result in a pissing contest. I had hoped that among […]
A bit slack on my viewing this month – but it is the summer hols! Mopped up the end of series 5 with it’s more sober tone, and then veered […]
Despite an elevator-pitch style premise, and a plot that borrows elements from many previous episodes, I’d rate this as the best dalek story ((which I think is probably best defined […]