Category: Movies and TV Reviews

Coal Hill, you’ve been about a while, haven’t you? I remember when Susan used to go there, taught by the equally unrealistic couple of Ian and Barbara; how times haven’t changed. There are still kids (sadly) and a god-awful relationship shoehorned into…

You know what I miss, Hustle. We don’t get those types of shows anymore. Wikipedia says there were several series to the show but if we’re honest with ourselves, once Adrian Lester left it was never the same. Hustle was a great idea,…

Listen, as I said last time, from here on out, I’ve mostly forgotten this series. Aside from Clara (a teacher) saying two orphans should kill some kids because they will be orphans otherwise, people genuinely like her and I don’t know why. Anyway,…

Generally, the twinge of pseudo-historical fiction from Mark Gatiss thus far I’ve enjoyed: The only one I bounced right off of was his first episode, “The Unquiet Dead.” So, we were going into “Robot of Sherwood” with four episodes to one in…

Happy New Queer! Wait, I don’t think I’m allowed to reference The Thick of It too much, at least when it is Jodie’s Who and not Peter’s. Anyway, that was a completely “meh” episode, currently being held up as if it were the messiah (He’s a…

Here we go, adventure number 2 of Statler and Waldorf. At least it is the episode where I can talk about an actress I quite like and the fact that Zawe Ashton is very clearly not Lerona Crichlow, previously in the fantastic…

To his best effort, Steven Moffat did try to keep up with his own pace in the first episode, retraining that energy while transitioning into the more pragmatic Doctor. However, despite his best efforts, Peter Capaldi is not an instantly likable figure.…