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Showing posts with label Episode 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Episode 4. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 September 2019

"American Horror Story 1984" Season 9 What a campy hoot!

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Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy have nailed the mid-80's, starting with the gloriously cheesy opening titles. If you grew up in the 80...
Saturday, 29 July 2017

"Top of the Lake: China Girl" Review

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The first season back in 2013 was a muddled masterpiece - great cast and atmospheric New Zealand locales. Jane Campion's Sydney-based op...
Friday, 29 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Mr Robot" Season 2, Episode 4.

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"The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeois" low budget slasher flick. The masterful use of Gustav Holst's "The Planets...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

5 things I liked about "Ray Donovan" Season 4, Episode 4

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This show has gone from strength to strength due to the screenwriters and ensemble cast. Season 4 could be its best. It's certainly the ...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

"Penny Dreadful" Season 3 Highlights

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Great to see the quality has been maintained in Episode 1 , as well as the tongue-in-cheek tone. The camp Professor of Antiquities (so plea...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016

"Bates Motel" Season 4 Review

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Things are finally getting interesting in White Pine Bay. After a dull, hackneyed second season and a promising third, Season 4 could be a c...
Friday, 15 May 2015

The best bits of "Penny Dreadful" Season 2

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So pleased that the second series has maintained the standard of the first. Just as beautifully produced, acted and scripted. It's witty...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Things I liked about "Bates Motel" Season 3

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Norma's mugging of the camera - extended reaction times/frozen expressions (usually after one of Norman's revelations/confessions)...
Friday, 9 January 2015

"Count Arthur Strong" Series 2 and 3, BBC

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If it wasn't that Graham Linehan was involved, I would never have started watching Series 1. It is 'an acquired taste'. Pros R...
Monday, 29 September 2014

"Plebs" Season 2, ITV2, review

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The boys are back. It's puerile but irresistible. It's "The Inbetweeners" meets "Up Pompeii". The Roman sets are...
Friday, 25 July 2014

"The Mimic" Series 2, Channel 4

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Surprisingly we get a second series of this bittersweet little show. I thought six episodes pretty much covered Martin and his world but wri...
Monday, 2 June 2014

"Penny Dreadful" Series 1, Episode 4, "Demi-monde", Showtime/Sky

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The gothic/Victoriana boxes continue to be ticked in this opulent and well paced bit of silliness. Great scene in a luxuriant conservator...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

"Bates Motel" Season 2, Episode 10, Episode 3, A&E, spoilers Episode 4, Episode 5

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I swore I wasn't going to watch this soapy stuff anymore... but the Faye Dunaway-style "Chinatown" revelation was a ripper (he...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

"Hannibal", NBC, 13 interesting things about Season 2

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A suspenseful opening scene, it seems cornfields are mandatory in thrillers. "I love your work" intones Hannibal from the top o...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

"Fleming; The Man Who Would Be Bond" BBC America, 4 part miniseries, review

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Well, the title says it all. This is enjoyable codswallop. Much like the films. The fun is to try and spot the links with the movies/novels ...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

"Banshee" Season 2, Episode 4, Cinemax, review, spoilers,

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Sheriff Hood has this knack of getting into fights with big dudes. This week it's the Amish "teacher"/psycho. You knew somethi...
Thursday, 31 October 2013

"American Horror Story: Coven" FX TV series, Episode 4, "Fearful Pranks Ensue"

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Loads of "fearful pranks" and surprise visits tonight. A fun visit from the Council of Witchcraft, featuring Quentin (think Truma...
Monday, 21 October 2013

"Masters Of Sex" Showtime TV series Episode 4

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This episode focused on its flawed male characters. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen), the cold fish, misery guts, physically abused as a child a...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

"Father Figure" Episodes 1-5, Episode 6 BBC 1, review

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Jason Byrne's TV sitcom is old school stuff, quite fun, if you don't mind lots of slapstick, food fights and manic Irish mammies. It...
Friday, 13 September 2013

"Peaky Blinders" Once Upon A Time In Birmingham, BBC2, review

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From the stunning opening scene (dude rides into town on a horse??) featuring Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand", atmospheric Birmin...