Morning Star: Walking Dead’s latest is a Game of Bones…
Last week’s Walking Dead instalment was very much a classic slice of old-school horror and for the follow-up, the show is certainly not cranking down the tension. In fact, there’s … Read More
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Dead Man Stalking: TWD’s latest has classic blood, sweat and tears…
While one group of survivors has escaped the caverns – though with casualties – Alpha (Samantha Morton) is not wasting any time in making sure the people of Alexandria feel … Read More
Shock and Lore: Sins of the Past and future fall-out fill ‘Who’ finale…
In the far future, the Cyber-War has left humanity on the brink of extinction and even the Cybermen reduced in number. But as a new battalion are reactivated and their … Read More
‘The Walking Dead’ squeezes the Subterranean Homesick Blues…
After Carol (Melissa McBride) recklessly charges into danger, she and her friends are now trapped below ground, surrounded by the undead and with seemingly no way of escape. It looks … Read More
Doctor Who: ‘Ascension of the Cybermen’ raises the stakes…
Given the earnest warning from Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and the contempt of Ashad, the Lone Cybermen (Patrick O’Kane) at Villa Diodati, the Doctor and her companions head into … Read More
Can a Post-Millennial Prometheus revive Who fortunes?
The Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, 1816: A group of people who will have a huge effect on centuries of literature to come gather for their own decadent … Read More
Who goes Scare? – A tale of Fingers, Fear, felons and Fam…
The Doctor drops off her companions in modern-day Sheffield and is somewhat conflicted about how to spend the next day by herself. But the Tardis alerts her to an unusual … Read More
Who’s ‘Praxeus’ is a Wasted Opportunity…
An astronaut’s shuttle veers wildly off-path, a blogger goes missing in a Peruvian beauty-spot turned rubbish-dump and in Madagascar birds are behaving very strangely indeed. Even the Doctor and her … Read More
Tempus Fugitve: Just how Ruthless is the Doctor?
A platoon of Judoon are heading from the moon to a lagoon, in particular Gloucester in pursuit of a very specific fugitive. And while the rhino-horned space-police cause panic in … Read More
Our Fiends Electric: Who’s current war powers up…
Nikola Tesla (Goran Visnjič) is a man with vision – sometimes fanciful, sometimes pragmatic but clearly a man ahead of his time. But when funding is pulled for his latest … Read More
Who’s ‘Orphan 55’: Cut Price Vacation, too much baggage…
With the Doctor still trying to process the news about Gallifrey – not to mention a rather drastic clear-up mess from a recent squiddish encounter (who knew it was mating … Read More
Doctor Who: ‘Spyfall II’ Herstory in the Making?
As Daniel Barton’s plane plunges to Earth – with Barton and the Master (for it is he!) safely beamed away and the Doctor finding herself between dimensions, it seems some … Read More
In for the Count: Moffat and Gatiss tackle ‘Dracula’…
When Steven Moffat left Doctor Who it was not immediately clear what he would do next. A complete break from the Time Lord meant no more Tardis offerings and the … Read More
Doctor Who: Spy-fi debut for Whittaker’s sophomore salvo…
Readying to meet up again and head off on more travels, The Doctor and her companions are all individually summoned to MI5 by ‘C’ (Stephen Fry) to help investigate the … Read More
BBC’s Christmas Carol: deep and crisp and getting even…
Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) runs his company with a cold, some would say heartless outlook on life and the human condition. In his mind, the ‘hypocrisy’ of the masses is … Read More