Before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of Doctor Who: Flux. After last week’s hectic opener, the second episode of Doctor Who’s special Flux story arc delivers one of the absolute best Sontaran stories I’ve ever watched. I’ve always thoroughly enjoyed watching the Sontarans, from Helen Raynor’s electrifying The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky two-parter from … Read more
Before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of Dexter: New Blood. Eight years ago, one of Showtime’s most acclaimed TV dramas dropped off our radars with one of the most disappointing series finales of all time. Dexter’s beloved sister Deb perished to a gunshot wound that left her comatose. In the … Read more
Before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of Doctor Who. Serving as the first part of six, the “Flux” story arc breaks the mould of a conventional Doctor Who series, and it’s something to be admired. It’s also easy to forgive the overwhelming number of story strands this first episode establishes. … Read more
As always, before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of The Walking Dead. After seven weeks, we’ve reached the mid-season finale, the first of two, some might forget, to The Walking Dead’s bumper 24-special swansong season. So, to dive right in, the Reaper’s top man, the fanatically religious maniac Pope (Richie Coster), … Read more
Marvel’s latest endeavour What If…? was an interesting shift in direction, both in the sense of the fact that it’s animated and the fact that it deals with the mostly unexplored (for now) multiverse through the eyes of The Watcher. To be completely honest, I never planned to watch What If…? as I thought it … Read more
As always, before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of The Walking Dead. There was little in the way of carnage and bloodshed, but we can probably expect that next week, as Maggie’s crew, with the help of some freaky Whisperer masks and a horde of the undead, roll up on … Read more
As always, before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of The Walking Dead. “On The Inside”, this week, returns our attention to Connie and Virgil, who last appeared in Season 10’s intended closer (before the pandemic), “A Certain Doom”. After escaping from Alpha’s horde of Whisperers in the cave systems, we catch … Read more
Before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of The Walking Dead. “Out of the Ashes”, the fifth episode of this final season delves deeper into the desperation striking at the heart of Alexandria’s collapsing community, and the bleak state of things is illustrated best through Aaron. Ross Marquand’s performance as one of … Read more
Before you read on, there are spoilers ahead for this week’s review of The Walking Dead. This week, as we see the events replay from the beginning of last week’s “Hunted”, the action picks up with Daryl as he tracks a member of the Reaper clan through woodlands. This Reaper, as we soon learn, is actually … Read more
For those who’ll remember last week’s closing moments of “Acheron Part II”, the Reapers emerged, killing Hilltopper Roy and cutting off Cole’s hand, and here we are. The pre-credits sequence is hard to watch and leaves no time to prepare as chaos ensues. The group is scattered, arrows are flying out of the dark, and it … Read more