When still a young boy, Dan Garvie, narrowly avoided the clutches of a notorious serial killer, but ever since he’s quietly wondered if his actions on the day doomed another child. However, the notorious ‘Pied Piper’ is now long dead and Dan is a grown man and a successful...

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has a problem. Politicians – including congressman Bucky Barnes –  are scrutinising her every move and she has a closet full of skeletons that she doesn’t want to see the light of day. What better way to clean house than have all her shady operatives...

Two brothers, Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) return to the Mississippi Delta after years away. They’ve served in World War One and, later, in the Chicago Underworld of Capone.  Now they’ve finagled money, escaping with enough cold hard cash and Irish beer to open up...

Five years after Joel Miller saved virus-immune Ellie from certain death (but in doing so killed the people who might have saved humanity) they are living in Jackson, a fortified township that offers the closest thing to a sanctuary. But the lies Joel has told Ellie and those around...

When a tragedy makes Matt Murdock decide to put away his Daredevil suit and alter-ego, it seems that the more conventional side of the law will take precedence from now on. Wilson Fisk, recovered from the injuries he sustained from his protégé, is also reassessing his priorities, taking the...

When acerbic judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a debilitating stroke, his no-nonsense, authoritarian world takes a hard hit. He finds himself at a care-home, Royal Pines Mews, unable to be as physically in control of his whole body and faced with staff that don’t bow to his every...

In the wake of recent events, with parts of the city being flooded and the death of crime kingpin Carmine Falconi still a shadow across its streets and alleys, Gotham City’s ne’er-do-wells and would-be leaders of the underworld are jostling for power, scrambling for who will get the wealth...

Daryl, Carol and Laurent are working on the plane with Ash, ready to make their escape out of France, but the plane won’t carry all of them, so someone will have to be left behind. Both Daryl and Carol believe they should be the one to stay. However, Fallou...

The traumatised Wanda Maximoff (aka the Scarlet Witch) left chaos in her wake and at least one resident of Westfield hasn’t been the same sense. Trapped inside a reality she never made, one that echoes a detective show, Agatha Harkness is about to be freed by the arrival of...

Those awaiting more dark and twisted tales of troubled detective Charlie Parker will have to wait until 2025 (and the forthcoming novel The Children of Eve) but in the meantime author John Connolly brings together an anthology of the bizarre and strange and an additional essay in Night and...

Frustrated comedian Arthur Fleck murdered a chat-show host on live television and while he’s turned into something of a celebrity, the legal system is ready to try him for his crimes. But can Fleck, still adrift from reality and at the mercy of Gotham’s Arkham State Hospital and institutions...

When Renée Ballard’s police ID and badge are stolen while she’s out surfing, it’s just the start of a tsunami of complications that will affect her and her team at the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. As she tries to pursue answers to that particular problem  – with the help of...

The original Snowpiercer  – an adaptation of the 1982 Transperceneige graphic novel by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette – was a subversive but vivid mix of eclectic story-telling from the pen and director’s chair of Bong Joon-ho (a breakthrough followed by the likes of Parasite, Okja and...

Conscripted by the industrial complex of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, there are few choices for those simply working to get by and so when Rain and Andy, who initially appear to be a brother and sister, are cheated out of their contract-end, they look to a different strategy. Cautiously, the...

The Doctor stands defeated as the world and then the cosmos falls to the sand-riddled victory of the ancient power of Sutekh.  But despite life being blown away, one thing that cannot be destroyed is memory and the Doctor makes a last-ditch effort to find out why he and...

After noting that he and Ruby keep seeing the same woman’s face scattered through time and space, the Doctor decides they should go to UNIT to see if he can use their resources to actively track her down in the contemporary world – with the added attraction of catching...

The Doctor and Ruby are gatecrashing an estate party in 1813, where Ruby is enjoying the distinct ‘Bridgerton’ vibe. Unfortunately, but rather typically, the duo’s latest jaunt isn’t going to merely involve dances and duchesses. It seems guests at a duchess’s party are being murdered by something distinctly alien...

It is the time of the High Republic, years before the Empire will become a dark force in the universe and there seems little need for a Rebellion of any kind. So, when an esteemed Jedi Knight is murdered in a crowded bar in downtown Ueda there’s no short...

OMG! Lindy Pepper-Bean is like having the most SO awesome day – minimal work, chatting with friends, exchanging beauty tips and listening to the coolest music. It’s like, totally, great. But…ick… who’s this Doctor fellow person trying to gatecrash her chatroom – he doesn’t look like any of her...

The Doctor and Ruby arrive on a Welsh cliff-top where the Time Lord tells his companion some of the area’s rich history and somewhat dangerous future. But before they can enjoy their trip, the Doctor steps into what appears to be a ‘fairy-ring’ shrine and moments later Ruby realises...

A woman named Colleen Clark is arrested after an investigation into her son’s disappearance uncovers a bloodied blanket in her car. Did she kill infant Henry Clark?  Subsequent news reports have started to turn her neighbours against her, her husband has moved out of the home and seems likely...

The Doctor and Ruby may have intended to head to a beach, but, instead, they end up in the middle of an unexpected war zone. Driven to answer a call for help, the Doctor finds himself atop a deadly landmine, its genetic precision so deadly that the slightest shift...

Much has been written about Doctor Who over the years, with nothing so true as that it is a show that reinvents the decorations around its core remit and leaves its fans in a state of flux. Often, it’s been a case of saying that the ‘new version isn’t...

Shaw, Cate and May have survived their journey to the Hollow World Below, but the revelation that time works differently there forces the team and the newly-discovered Keiko to face some home truths. Keiko learns that decades have passed on the surface and is unsure if there’s anything left...

For years, Maya Lopez believed that she’d made the best of a turbulent life. She had been born deaf, lost a leg in a car accident and then her father to tragedy but his employer had taken her under his wing and helped her triumph beyond her circumstances and...

Following the implosion at the reactor, a handful of survivors make it out alive with the presumption that everyone else is dead – killed by falling rubble and plunged down through the collapsing portal in the Hollow Earth. The Monarch organisation and the survivors try to live with the...

Episode Seven (What If… Hela Found the Ten Rings?) is, once again, an entry that doesn’t immediately scream as being on any fan’s immediate wish-list of alternative scenarios, but it’s all played out interestingly enough. In this scenario, Odin (voiced by Jeff Bergman) doesn’t banish Hela (Cate Blanchett in...

In the 1950s, the fledgling Monarch organisation is threatened by internal pressures as a new command make sit clear that with a lack of real answers, they’ll seek to divert resources to their other projects. The young Lee Shaw, Bill and Keiko face a race against time to distil...

When the galaxy’s ruling royal family are betrayed and a more ruthless Regent seizes the reins of power, no planet is entirely safe from their power. But an army, even a galactic one, marches on its stomach and a small moon at the far edge of the Motherworld’s reach...

The fourth What If..? episode (What If… Iron Man Crashed Into the Grandmaster?) bears an awkwardly bland title that seems a bit of a stretch in the ‘people are demanding to see this’ department. But the entry does exactly what it says on the tin (or iron) by having...

Nearly two decades ago a baby was abandoned at a church on Ruby Road. The foundling grew up, was adopted by the Sunday family and named after the place where she was discovered. Ruby’s been searching to clues about her heritage (even taking part in a tv show), yet...

After May’s revelations that she had made a deal with Monarch, she leaves her travelling companions behind, though Cate and Kentaro quickly realise it might not have been of her own free will. When it becomes clear that one of their pursuers (and Monarch employee) has survived the crashing...

What if… people had made other choices? What if… other decisions had been made in the heat of battle? What if… in another reality, the fates had other plans for some familiar faces? Disney+ brings another round of alternate-realities as The watcher peers through the veil and sees how...

In 1955… Lee Shaw has to make some hard decisions about protecting Keiko and keeping the future of Monarch assured, wondering how long it may be between doing what he wants to do and what he has to do. In 2015… the elder Shaw and his companions get close...

It’s 1961 and Ben Leaps into the body of Michael Allison, a CIA analyst whose work has brought him to Cairo, Egypt after a contact reaches out to his agency with a tantilising offer to give information about foreign operatives and possible double-agents. But before any deal can be...

The Doctor, Donna and Wilf are caught up in a London – and a world – suddenly running amok… where everyone is so convinced they are right that they’ll fight each other to the death to prove it. UNIT whisks Wilf away to safety and escorts the Doctor and...

The Monarch organisation may have arrived just in time to whisk away Colonel Wyatt, May, Cate and Kentaro from certain death, but it didn’t so so purely for altruistic reasons – it wants answers. However, Wyatt’s in no mood to capitulate and his younger companions don’t yet have the...

It’s 1692 – the furthest back any leaper has gone to date  and Ben finds himself in the body of Elizabeth, a handmaiden to Bridget ‘Goody’ Smith, widow of the local preacher. The location is a town just outside Salem where the fervour surrounding bad luck and possible witchcraft...

The Tardis isn’t acting well to having its newly-minted console suddenly decaffeinated and after a momentary diversion to 1666, it deposits the Doctor and Donna on a strange starship, before Vworping away for repairs. As the two look around, it seems as if they are alone… there’s just a...

Having survived the first attack by the Arctic Titan, Shaw and his companions still have to contend with falling temperatures and the inhospitable conditions. With differing ideas on where survival lies, Kentaro decides to follow his instincts, driven by memories of his first meeting with May… while the others...

Still bemused as to why his regeneration resulted in a familiar face, the Doctor doesn’t have much time to consider the implications before a walk in Camden Town sends him straight into the path of his old companion Donna Noble. Fearful that recognising him may result in her death,...

In the 1950s, Lt. Lee Shaw, along with Dr. Keiko Miura and Bill Rand, is trying to find a way to track the mysterious Titans. But to do so they will need the help of the US army and that is not an institution that is known for any...

George may have had a personal victory in his attempts to rewind time, but the larger Lazarus Project discovers that a rival initiative has created their own way of flexing the time-stream and the combination of two black-hole-empowered systems has now doomed the universe to an ever-diminishing wash-and-repeat cycle....

In the aftermath of Godzilla’s 2014 arrival in San Francisco, Cate (Anna Sawai) journeys to Tokyo to find information on her missing father and is surprised to find that he left more than just secrets… he had an entirely different family. Tempted to flee back to the States, Cate...

It’s 1955 and Ben leaps into the body of academic Henry McCoy, just in time to find a mortally-wounded fellow professor who manages to grasp about a ‘formula’ and ‘pathfinder’ before dying. Ben realises he’s at Princeton and it becomes clear that as a ‘friend’ of the late professor,...

When a sailor collapses during a ceremony in Sydney Harbor, it’s not immediately clear the cause of his death. But though he was a submariner on a visiting US nuclear submarine, his body ended up in the bay – technically Australian waters – and so begins a delicate dance...

Aboard the SABER (Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response) space-station, high above the Earth, Nick Fury is trying to get further information about why surges are happening across the jump-point system that should normally allow interstellar travel. Independently both Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau experience a flux in those...

Loki finally has control of his time-travelling powers, but where does he go and when?  He needs to find a way to stop the loom crashing, but almost every attempt he makes fails to work and he begins to despair on ever being able to rewrite things enough to...

Though Chandler and Bosch appear to have discovered the corrupt cops behind recent deaths and cover-ups, they may still not have enough direct evidence to clear their client and they still have problems of their own as the FBI follows through on its threat to arrest them for past...

Bosch’s investigations put him squarely in the sights of two corrupt cops who have everything to lose if Harry’s gameplan leads him to their illicit operations. But with everyone trying to stay one step ahead and in ever-decreasing circles, it’s only time before there’s a collision. And as hard...