TV Review

Our favourite CDC investigator Dr. Eph is in trouble with the law this week, and with a solar eclipse shadowing New York City in darkness, there’s be nowhere to run from the infected… Warning: Spoilers follow! With last week’s episode “Runaways” ending with Dr. Ephraim being blamed for the death...

Spoiler Warning So finally, after the warm-up that was The Great British Bake Off, the true king of British reality TV has returned for 2014! Lord Sugar is back (alongside trusted aides Nick and Margar- sorry, Nick and Karen) to find an entrepreneur to go into business with. As...

Welcoming us back into the twisted tale of Freak Show, American Horror Story returns with “Massacres and Matinees“, as the county police feel they need to answer the public’s question: who is the mysterious killer that’s been terrorising their little town of Jupiter? Warning: Spoilers follow! The police are going out to...

With the UK release of the fourth and fifth episodes, The Strain reaches its scariest senses yet, with even more frights as the infected become more sinister in presence, and higher in numbers… Warning: Spoilers follow! As the virus affects more and more people, we see more gore than before. Episode 4, “It’s...

Take a second to imagine if CSI mated with Smallville, and then sprinkle on some nurtured Arrow goodness; that child would be The Flash. This is the CW’s latest superhero instalment following two successful seasons of Arrow, also based on a DC character. The Flash’s protagonist is Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), a crime...

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) and novelist Chuck Hogan have merged to create a masterpiece of a thriller in FOX’s The Strain, a televised adaptation of their co-authored trilogy of vampire novels released in 2009. This dark horror-drama follows an investigation into a mysterious virus that causes its...

Homeland could be called a one-trick pony. The first season’s exquisite plotting gave way to 24-style action and rehashed clichés (see Dana’s teenage angst). Yet I stuck with it, because its premise is compelling. Warning: Spoilers follow! While Homeland heralded the arrival of small screen female leads, there were...