“All Done With Mirrors” Review
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 […]
“False Witness” Review
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 […]
“Listen” Review
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 […]
“Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?” Review
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 […]
“Split!” Review
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 […]
“You’ll Catch Your Death” Review
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 […]
“Robot of Sherwood” Review and Podcast
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 […]
Avenging August
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 […]
“Into The Dalek” Review and Podcast
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 […]
“Super Secret Cypher Snatch” Review
This really is a well-crafted and entertaining episode. Something of a surprise, because it didn’t stand out in my memory – and it’s certainly not a classic, or one of […]
“Game” Review
Visually daring, with its surreal epic versions of board games, but conservative in terms of plot, this episode is entertaining if only because it’s Avengers by numbers. From the opening, […]
“The Forget-Me-Knot” Review
And so we bid farewell to Mrs Peel. There’s always a danger that everyone will hate the episode in which a well-loved character is written out, so I want to […]