2.4 (I Loathe You) For Sentimental Reasons Picking up last week’s plot in which Aidan lost his access to hospital blood, we quickly learn that he has been visiting the blood prostitute so often that her body isn’t reproducing its own supply fast enough to keep up with his demand. She asks him to come back later, when she will have a replacement ready, but when Aidan returns, he finds that the replacement is a child....

3.10 For Those About To Rot It starts when Aidan falls asleep in an alley — you know, like you do — and dreams about his wife in labour. But this is not the birth of Isaac. This baby does not survive to be born. Aidan and Suzanna cry and then in the present, Aidan returns to the house where Sally takes one look at him and goes, “You need to get laid....

One of the first images we see in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther – an important distinction that only grows more pronounced as the movie progresses – is of young black teens playing basketball on a makeshift hardcourt in Oakland. Following the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther picks up with a still grieving T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) on the eve of his ascendance to the Wakandan throne....

There’s the palpable sense that Dwight, the central character in Blue Ruin, has seen quite a few of those movies, and maybe caught a showing of the Coen brothers’ adaptation of No Country For Old Men on late night TV. He’s a man on a revenge mission, just as we’ve seen countless times before, but he isn’t exactly unwavering in his resolve, or even particularly adept at handling a firearm....

Last week’s episode of Boardwalk Empire was a good step in the right direction for the show, with a nice mix of action (the hotel shootout) and plot development (the exploration of Nucky and Margaret’s burgeoning relationship). While there are some huge plot developments in Home, they are confined to literally a few scenes and a couple of minutes of screen time. The real meat of the episode is in Nucky, Margaret and Jimmy’s individual character studies....

5.7 Say My Name Unlike previous episodes at this stage of a season, however, Say My Name had a quiet inevitability to it. Mike and Walt have been at loggerheads all season, and their conflict was clearly coming to an end, so did anyone truly think that Mike would make the clean break and live happily ever after? No one ever gets out unscathed on Breaking Bad without first paying the price for their mistakes, and Mike’s biggest mistake throughout the entire series was to continually underestimate Walt – to let him worm his way out of trouble and into positions of power time after time after time....

This review contains spoilers. 99.1%. We’ve been reliably informed by Breaking Bad that this, In meth purity terms, is a very impressive figure. They’ve certainly never seen anything like it in the Czech Republic and apparently those guys know their meth. 99.1% purity is nothing to be sniffed at (pun partially intended). That 0.9%, though. It has to bother Walt, doesn’t it? That for all his chemical know-how, his attention to detail and ability to manipulate his surroundings through sheer force of will, there will always be that tiny bit he will never have control over....

If last week’s sensitive opener was all about establishing empathy with Broadchurch’s traumatised subject, then this week’s was focused on getting the crime drama machinery up and running. Hardy and Miller collected evidence and interviewed leads in an instalment designed not to leave us shaken and raw, but with a list of suspects and a hunch. Right now, mine says that cocky Leo attacked Trish (a good-looking young man assaulting a fifty-year-old woman makes the clearest point that rape is about power and not sex) but then like Miller, I too am never in the mood for swaggery young shits....

That’s right. Jeremiah and Debbie Larson (Edward Herrmann and Miriam Flynn) are a pair of 70s porn legends, named Jim Spraysium and Rosie Bush, which means that Bucky Larson is born to be a star. Bucky is humiliated, thrown in the pool, and removed from the premises, but his story catches the attention of a former drug addict and nine-times-divorced loser named Miles Deep (Don Johnson), who manages to turn Bucky Larson into an unlikely star....

The episode starts out with a sense of urgency as Caskett tries to get everything done before the big day. It all seems to be moving along at a brisk pace, but when the couple applies for a marriage license, it is not the former playboy who is still married, but Kate that apparently has been betrothed for 15 years. Did not see that coming but it’s true: Beckett is still married....

This week, a young Japanese ballet dancer named Jade Yamata has been killed under mysterious circumstances…as in ninja throwing-knife mysterious! We just don’t see enough ninja violence on TV in the 21st Century. Naturally Beckett and company catch the case much to Castle’s inner ’80s worshipping chagrin. The team at the 12th begin to explore the life of the young dancer and find that it was much more nefarious than most ballerinas....

4.7 Chuck Versus The First Fight The problem with this episode was from the outset they appear to have set themselves the objective of emulating Alias, which, as I recall, wasn’t exactly brimming over with chuckles. Okay, I accept that they did have some very funny scenes with Marshall, but Alias wasn’t consistently a light hearted experience. As such, the deeper they got into recreating the wonderful bad to good, back to bad, and possibly good flip-flops that Alias did so well, all the comedy elements that make this show Chuck went promptly out of the window....

2.8 Ashes Denote That Fire Was In contrast to the St. Patrick’s Day revelry in the streets of Five Points, this week’s episode of Copper is a sombre affair marked by musings on life and death (mostly death). The events of the day are structured around the wake of Ellen Corcoran, where the major characters all make an appearance at some point. Yet the episode is strangely hopeful – more so than usual for Copper....

2.9 Think Gently Of The Erring The biggest new development this week comes with the return of Eva’s violent side. (Remember that time in season one when she murdered somebody? Yeah, that happened.) This guy Ramsey is certainly a douchebag, but it’s questionable whether that justifies gouging his eye out. Eva is taken to the poshest prison cell ever, with plenty of room for drinking booze and having sexy time with Corcoran on the double bed....

Given this knowledge, I had to go see it. A group of friends are traveling through the bayou country on their way to Louisiana, following the advice of their driver Oscar (Dillon Casey) and his sister Karen (Lauren Schneider). Along for the ride are a pair of military veterans, Niles (Mehcad Brooks) and Randy (Aaron Hill), and their respective girlfriends, Emily (Serinda Swan) and Beth (Amanda Fuller). Along the way through a decayed town, they stop at the convenience store of Chopper (Sid Haig) to get beer and learn about the lesson of Grimley, an inbred swamp dweller whose journey into insanity mutated him into a half-man, half-alligator creature known as Lockjaw....

We’ve had a chance to play with the prototype multiplayer bit of Chaos Reborn, and while it’s still being polished, it’s every bit the engrossing battle of wits an necromancy we were hoping. Each bout is short, sharp and tense, with the screen quickly filling up with goo, fire and fantastical monsters as each wizard casts their spells – Chaos was and is an appropriate name for Julian Gollop’s timeless tactical RPG....

As a result of those frankly astonishing takings, coupled with the modest (and confusing) success of their subsequent efforts, the Wayans continue to be given licence to parody films of all shapes and sizes. In Dance Flick they’re taking on the teen dance movie, and the result is the least amusing trailer I believe I’ve seen this year or last. This trailer begins with a CGI newborn baby on a dance floor, ends with an extremely weak gag about a penis and in between features not one joke that raises even a chuckle....

So, your new book, Awkward Situations For Men. How did the idea for it arise? I’m in my thirties now, and I don’t feel like a man. I feel like a really big boy, like a large, ungainly child. I’m at the point now where kids point at me and say, “What’s that man doing,” or something. Not that I’m saying I do anything weird near children! But suddenly, I’m a man and not a boy, so the column became about that, really....

While you can completely see the creative decisions that went into keeping Wilson Fisk mostly off-camera for this series, this episode can’t help but make you wonder whether it was the right choice. Starting with a flashback to Fisk entering prison after his trial, we see how he applies his own superpower – the ability to exercise control – to the point where he’s able to get away with basically anything....

Dark Matter Season 3 Episode 4 Melissa O’Neil and Jodelle Ferland have always gotten a lot of credit for the strength of their acting on Dark Matter, but Anthony Lemke, who plays Three, has always been lurking in the background giving us one of the most lovable ne’er-do-wells on TV since Firefly’s Jayne Cobb. Giving Three his own Groundhog Day episode was not only perfect for his character, it provided the perfect vehicle for us to meet the latest Raza crew additions, witness another foiled Zairon counterattack, and even speculate about the eye-popping potential futures revealed through the eyes of Android....