TV

World Without End Review

It's like an am-dram production have decided to recreate Game of Thrones at an open air museum using costumes that were deemed too unrealistic for the BBC version of Robin Hood.
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Broadchurch Episode One Review

British teledrama has another scrape of the long-empty creative barrel with dramatic dregs-heap Broadchurch, the latest in a long line of rock-bottom miserablist productions that are over-funded and offensively marketed. As its tagline (“A Town Wrapped in Secrets”) and its premise (small town rocked by murder!) suggest, this new eight-part series sails to shore brimming [...]
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Beyond Scared Straight Review

America has presented its televised culture with numerous documentaries that focus on the lives and rehabilitation of some of their worst young juveniles. Crime and Investigation Network’s ‘Beyond Scared Straight’ is a modern take on 1978’s ‘Scared Straight!’ by Arnold Shapiro, and interestingly highlights how thirty-four years have passed, yet we still face the same [...]
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Homeland Review

(Spoiler Alert) It’s Showtime! And no, I don’t mean the 2002 cop-comedy starring the unlikely couple of De Niro and Eddie Murphy. I was once an avid watcher of Showtime’s Dexter. But lately, I’ve felt cheated, as the once unmissable series has deteriorated into something quite the opposite. I don’t know whether Miami’s finest blood [...]
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Breaking Bad – the story so far

When Vince Gilligan, a long-time writer on The X-Files, set out to create a new television series, he wanted the central character to evolve “from Mr Chips into Scarface”. “Television is historically good at keeping its characters in a self-imposed stasis so that shows can go on for years or even decades,” he told Newsweek. [...]
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Breaking Bad DVD Review

Having built from nothing a drug empire and taken the crash course from hell in cooking meth, pathological lying, killing and almost superhuman selfishness, Walter (Bryan Cranston) has turned a moral corner. It’s everything creator Gilligan envisioned, and more: there is no word for what Season 2′s plot arc has done – crescendo implies a [...]
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