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Category: Television
‘Culloden’ and ‘The War Game’ Don’t Rewrite History, They Rewrite How We Can Learn From the Past
On the moors of Culloden 1746, through the smoke of cannon fire and the fog of war, we see two … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episodes 8, 9, and 10
Before we get into the meat and bones of Jekyll and Hyde‘s final three cadaverous episodes, one thing should be addressed … More
The Best TV of 2015: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Adapting Susanna Clarke’s novel, which Neil Gaiman called “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last … More
The Best TV of 2015: Humans
Adapted from the acclaimed Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, Humans is like a modern day I, Robot, Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence where … More
The Frankenstein Chronicles: Series 1, Episode 6 – “Lost and Found”
In the season finalé of The Frankenstein Chronicles, we finally have our monsters, the residential mad scientist is finally revealed, as … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 7 – “The Reaper”
This week’s mid-season episode, “The Reaper”, is for the first time in the series a sequel episode, giving it the … More
The Frankenstein Chronicles: Series 1, Episode 5 – “The Frankenstein Murders”
Four people are in a candle-lit laboratory; two of them are the Shelleys (Richard Clements and Anna Maxwell Martin), one … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 6 – “Spring-Heeled Jack”
The clever twist in this week’s episode is that while everyone, including Hyde (Tom Bateman), is out on the hunt … More
The Frankenstein Chronicles: Series 1, Episode 4 – “The Fortune of War”
I’ve seen things in “The Fortune of War”; things that are now seared into my retinas and playing with my … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 5 – “Black Dog”
Last week, the first arc of the series was abruptly concluded with the spectacular and unexpected death of sneering Captain … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 4 – “The Calyx”
Just when I was starting to think that Jekyll and Hyde was never going to get going the way I wanted it … More
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