Yellow jackets at the ready! Keeping Faith, last year’s surprise hit from BBC Wales, returns for its second English-language season tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9pm, the Welsh version having already been shown on S4C earlier this year. The first season was…
I’m not entirely sure about this new adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Six episodes might not seem very much when we’re used to twenty-plus episode-a-season procedurals but when we’re talking about a story previously filmed and wrapped up in…
The Good Fight or “What Diane Lockhart Did Next” hit screens last year with some very big heels to fill – things went awry for The Good Wife towards the end of its run, but it will always be one…
Unpopcult’s Canadian division notes, with interest, that Coroner is starting tonight (to be precise, the first episode was shown in the early hours of this morning, but I would imagine anyone up then was watching the NFL divisional finals). Serinda…
Spoilers “What”, asked The Guardian the other day of Bodyguard, “does its mix of politics, terrorism and sex have that other series don’t?” Well, yes. The clue might be in the question. The first three episodes, certainly, were as much…
Mike “Doctor Foster” Bartlett’s latest showPress is pitched as a “West Wing-style” (it should be so lucky) drama about the newspaper business, with rivalry between a left-leaning broadsheet and a splashy tabloid played out against a background of the rise…
“YOLO” might be the first time I’ve watched an episode of Scandal and come away thinking that it was a bit of a hot mess. Specifically, two of the Big Developments which bookended the episode – Huck torturing Quinn, and…
This week, Homeland followed one of its best ever episodes with perhaps its worst. The problem is this: given the inherent ludicrousness of Brody’s situation, the writers of Homeland need to finesse his storylines with great care, and make sure…
‘Marine One’ kicks off with Brody, speaking to camera, recording what is clearly intended to be his parting statement to the world, and for me at least it removed any lingering doubts about his endgame. The problem, of course, is…
By the end of episode 10, the investigation had led Lund and Meyer to City Hall and then to handsome, enigmatic Mayoral candidate Troels Hartmann. I must admit I was expecting the pattern with previous possible killers to be followed, and for…
