“House of Cards” Review
The opening is a silly but satisfying mix of humour and espionage – and the rest of this one’s not bad either. The plot is a little underdeveloped (how and […]
The 1960s TV series (not the comic thingy).
The opening is a silly but satisfying mix of humour and espionage – and the rest of this one’s not bad either. The plot is a little underdeveloped (how and […]
The Avengers are back! Great locations and a healthy dash of strangeness giving it a very Avengers feel, right from the opening with an agent being chased by men with fishing […]
So, after a few days to allow the dust to settle on my Avengers DVD collection, here are a few thoughts on the series as a whole, as well as […]
So, that’s it. All the remaining original Avengers have now been watched. I’ll look back over the whole lot in another post, but the October episodes represent a curious mix […]
So, that’s in then. The final notes of The Shake die away. The last of the (original) Avengers. 137 episodes… and they chose to end with this one. Bizarre. We’re back […]
After a couple of very straight episodes, this is a throwback to the silliness of season 5 – perhaps a reflection of this being produced a year earlier. Philip Levene’s […]
Unsettling. The Avengers has been about adventure and thrills, not about psychological torture. Even when psychological torture has been the explicit goal of the diabolical mastermind (eg. The House That […]
The central conceit in this episode is one of Flemingesque sadism: surgically implanted phosphor bombs. It’s a simple set-up where it’s almost impossible to imagine how Steed or his friends […]
Really, truly terrible things happening to The Avengers feels like it’s against the rules. It violates the casual invulnerability of our heroes. So death, serious injury, bereavement, betrayal – they can […]
There’s more than a passing similarity between the agresso-therapist and Quite Quite Fantastic in Honey For The Prince. This is a iittle darker and more down to Earth, with the […]
This is surprisingly reminiscent of a Pertwee era Doctor Who (and era still a year away). It has that base under siege feel, a bunch of broadly drawn disposable characters. Steed […]
This would be awful, but it’s kind of fascinating how weird it is. I’m surprised by my fascination, since Mother features prominently as narrator. Made from the last few scraps […]