• Black Mirror: ‘Smithereens’ – uber-topical tale of death & taxis…

    Chris Gilhaney’s life is not what it was. He divides his time between grief-counselling groups and providing an Uber-like service in his car. Chris (Andrew Scott)  quietly meditates in his taxi, searching for a temporary moment of peace in an existence that is now far too loud for him....
  • Black Mirror: ‘Vipers’ strikes at heart of sexual identity…

    Danny and Karl are long-time friends who party all night and all day and don’t have a care in the world… even Danny’s girlfriend, Theo is often a willing participant in living life to the full. But times evolve and  over a decade later, Danny and Theo have settled...
  • Hill of the King: AMC’s impressive ‘NOS4A2’ has familial formula…

    Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings) dreams of escaping her small Massachusetts town and heading off to art college – away from her bickering parents and the area that stifles her talents.  She divides her time between school and helping her mother clean houses, but though her mother believes Vic...
  • The Quirk and the Dead: ‘Good Omens’ realises its portent-ial…

    God (Frances McDormand) has a plan. Or so she says. And so does her opposite number. But for eons (in fact, since the Garden of Eden) two respective minions, one from each side of those tracks, have done their best to do the job given to them. Crawley –...
  • Anti-Meta: Twilight Zone finale asks if you kept your eyes Peeled..?

    A weary writer (Seth Rogen) ponders his inability to come up with a satisfying hook for his next project. Moving post-it notes around and staring at his computer screen doesn’t seem to be working… until he realises he can use a mushroom cloud and post-apocalyptic setting to start his...
  • OVERVIEW: Killing Eve’s second season – snark of a covenant….

    Sophomore television seasons are always hard. Like that pesky second album follow-up to an unexpected gold-plated disc success, there’s the potentially crippling high expectations and the question of whether you go faster, higher, longer and harder or just spin-out in an entirely new direction, flexing different creative muscles as...
  • Twilight Zone’s Promising ‘Blue Scorpion’ lacks sting in tale…

    Anthropology professor Jeff Storck (Chris O’Dowd) is not having a great life. His father, Otis,with whom he lives, has just killed himself. His estranged wife wants a divorce (she’s met another guy called Jeff) and sends a lawyer (also called Jeff) to deliver the papers. The weapon Storck Snr....
  • Game Over: Embers, ashes and epilogues…

    There’s one – and probably only one – absolute truth when it comes to writing for television: that you can’t please everyone, even most of the time. The more passionate the followers of your show, the more likely they’ll passionately disagree with some elements and production decisions and, ultimately...
  • Twilight Zone: Point of Origin misses its Point…

    When the pristine Eve (Ginnifer Goodwin) agrees to let her maid use the address to help her grandson get an education placement, she thinks she’s merely bending the rules a little. But when she’s briskly ‘summoned’ to appear before the authorities, she presumes there’s either been a mistake or...
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