“Requiem” Review
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 […]
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 […]
Although a story about framing one of The Avengers as a traitor seems like old hat, after 128 episodes, I’m having trouble putting my figure on where it happened before… I’m […]
Fog, Victoriana, Poe. This oddity eschews telling a story in favour of pure atmosphere. Not in the usual Avengers sense of pretty home counties villages, old fashioned pubs and red telephone […]
This is almost like a writing exercise in paring down an Avengers episode to the minimum possible plot to allow a series of vignettes of pleasing eccentrics and enthusiastic spycraft to […]
We are used to spies tailing one another; keeping out of sight of their target – though passers by can see them, they just see another pedestrian – it’s only […]
Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. The honey-trap […]
Well, The Prisoner did an episode that was little more than a poorly disguised rip-off of The Avengers, so I guess that it’s only fair that The Avengers does the same to The Prisoner […]
September’s episodes have been as variable as Tara’s hair. Two episodes I’d never seen before represented opposite ends of the quality spectrum (The Morning After and Look (Stop Me…)). But I’d […]
Blackmailers commit murders in such a way as to be able to frame their victims. The dead are collateral damage. It’s like a more intelligent version of the scheme in You […]