“Let’s Kill Hitler” Review
Daylight. For the first time since Utah, there’s daylight. That reflects the lighter tone in this densely packed story that ends the Summer hiatus in series 32 (or heralds the […]
Film, TV & Radio
“Torchwood: Immortal Sins” Review
Seven episodes in Torchwood has suddenly gone “classic”, with a flashback episode reminiscent of Small Worlds or Fragments from Jane Epsenson, but it is (at least for the first 40 minutes) very, […]
“The Hour” Review
For some reason, a the number of really great political thrillers with disappointing endings (Edge of Darkness, State of Play, The Shadow Line, The Hour) outnumber those that keep on building […]
“Torchwood: The Middle Men” Review
The middle: piggy-in-the-middle, middling, in the middle of it all. Being in the middle can be good, or it can be bad. Or it can just mean mediocre. At the start […]
“Torchwood: The Categories of Life” Review
Threes. Everything comes in threes. Being alive, after the miracle, there’s three ways for that. Strands of subplot in this episode: there’s three of them. But maybe one would’ve been […]
“Torchwood: Escape to LA” Review
I like slow-build long-fuse stories. I enjoy the atmosphere and the interplay between the characters, and wondering what each twist and turn will bring. Or at least I enjoy it […]
“Torchwood: Dead of Night” Review
After the two transatlantic set up episodes which have deftly interwoven the storylines of our principle characters, episode three spends the first fifteen minutes hunkering down with our new Torchwood team […]
“Torchwood: Rendition” review
The second episode of Miracle Day gives away a little bit more of what kind of a beast this new incarnation of Torchwood is. I’m enjoying it a lot. From last […]
“Torchwood: The New World” Review
When a show’s been good, I’m always a bit apprehensive about a new series. John Cleese famously ended Fawlty Towers after just 12 episodes, while it was still good. Regrettably few […]
“A Good Man Goes to War” Review
It’s rather late to be reviewing the “mid-season finale” of this year’s split Doctor Who, broadcast 3 weeks ago, and while this post has been festering my brain has been […]
“The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People” Review
So far this year’s Doctor Who has gone in a totally new direction: scarier, uncompromisingly complex and heavily multi-layered. At first glance, “The Rebel Flesh” may appear to be a […]
“The Doctor’s Wife” Review
In the past 24 hours the legendary status of last night’s Doctor Who episode by Neil Gaiman has been cemented online by a series of awestruck reviewers. It’s certainly a […]