• Taking things ‘One Day at a Time’ – First Impressions

    There’s nothing quite like taking an ambitious gamble with a Netflix TV series in the middle of the week. With hit shows like Stranger Things, Sense 8 and Black Mirror, there’s little reason to doubt the quality of the growing Netflix Originals scene. Netflix have been taking a stab...
  • A Personal Look At The Boston Iconic Group: The New Edition

    Chris Robinson directs, to an astonishingly personal degree, this biopic that chronicles the ups and downs of the legendary Boston music group in The New Edition Story. If any of you have read any of my journalistic work (wow that sounds really arrogant but let me land), you’ll know...
  • Was ‘The Final Problem’ the end for Sherlock?

    Well, that was truly something. After a shaky start to this long-anticipated series of Sherlock and a far better second episode almost ruined by a final five minutes which seemed to unnecessarily complicate the plot, and a trailer for the third episode which seemed equally brash and ridiculous (yes,...
  • The Walking Dead Season 7: A reanimated success or a shambling mess?

    Warning: major spoilers ahead! We’re halfway through Season 7 of AMC’s The Walking Dead and already we’ve been gifted with one of the best small-screen villains in living memory, a baseball bat you’d be hard-struck to forget, a goddamn tiger and some of the most emotional deaths the show has...
  • Has ‘Sherlock’ lost its heart? (or was that Mary?)

    Sherlock is more an event than a television series, having enjoyed consistently high ratings since its first release in 2010 and being, since the second series, a great way to hark in the new year. After the overblown ending of Series 3, fans have been waiting three years for...
  • Witness for the Prosecution: Gripping or Gruesome?

    After the success of last year’s adaptation of And Then There Were None, this time the BBC has taken on another of Agatha Christie’s impressive murder mysteries, and created a stunning television two-parter. Beware spoilers. The story follows the trial of Leonard Vole (Billy Howle) for the murder of...
  • Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

    It’s been a long wait for Doctor Who fans this year. This Christmas special marks the first episode released since the last Christmas special, since there was no full series in 2016. But with such a wait, was it worth it? (SPOILERS AHEAD) The last time was saw the...