Ready? Let’s give this a shot… FIRST APPEARANCE Crap. Domino is actually complicated from the start. Her first appearance was in New Mutants #98, the issue that also introduced Deadpool. She was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld for the third-to-last issue of the series that chronicled the adventures of the second wave of students at the Xavier School. Turns out the person who the New Mutants/X-Force thought was Domino was actually a mutant named Copycat with the power to mimic someone down to a genetic and mutant power level....

Deepwater Horizon director Peter Berg, I think, has watched Alien many times, and he really gets it. You only have to watch either the film or television series of Friday Night Lights to get that he understands the importance of character, as do screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand. As such, a substantive initial chunk of Deepwater Horizon is spent with human beings. It pays real dividends. Mark Wahlberg, then, plays Mike Williams, who we meet as he’s about to embark on a 21 day stay on the Deepwater Horizon rig, just off the coast of the US....

Certainly, Alak’s escape was a small but important step, and the Nolan and Irisa backstory was enriching – a fine bit of storytelling. It’s just that now the pacing is a bit off. What’s painful in a less enjoyable sense is the stalled mission of Rahm Tahk, who once again is unceremoniously tossed to the ground by a single assailant. The Castithan general was set up as the perfect villain in earlier episodes and now is becoming the vehicle for jokes featuring Little Shop of Horrors....

Don’t be ashamed; I’m sure that was a common misconception. I certainly had my eyes opened. Too soon for an eye metaphor? Of course, it’s inevitable that Datak and Stahma will find out their daughter-in-law indulges in culturally insensitive cosplay, a “kink” whose hardcore participants actually buy irises harvested from corpses in the absence of reputable contact lens dealers in the 2050’s. It already would have been a difficult sell for Christie, who seems to have alienated her husband while finding her “true” self in Casti drag, but with the murder on top of everything, I can’t imagine things will go well for the young McCawley once the parallel is discovered....

Steven Bach was the Senior Vice President of United Artists at the moment when Michael Cimino became the hottest director in Hollywood. His film The Deer Hunter (1978) was proclaimed a masterpiece by many and won five Oscars, including Best Picture – and Bach was desperate to sign Cimino’s next project, a Western of grand thematic scope that was known initially as The Johnson County War. That film turned out to be Heaven’s Gate and it sank United Artists....

By pairing Vogel with Deb, the show has ruined the two islands that Dexter was stranded between. Vogel spends almost the entire episode trying to convince Debra of Dexter’s greatness, using the scene of LaGuertta’s murder to show Deb that even if she had the chance to relive the season eight finale, she would have still chosen to save Dexter. By proving this all to Debra, Vogel ruins some of the potential tension that seemed like it was brewing between the two, the jealousy that Vogel showed every time Dexter rushed off to comfort Deb....

8.6 Dress Code We’re asked to swallow that Hannah escaped from prison and then looked up super-rich obsessive Miles Foster, played by Brit-bad-guy-for-hire Julian Sands. I’m not a huge fan of Miles, but that never really became a major concern because he was an entirely disposable character. This whole episode was almost completely made up of pointless information and generally irrelevant events. The complexities of Hannah’s new relationship and her love of Dexter are juxtaposed....

Since wrapping on Doctor Who episodes Deep Breath and Into The Dalek, director Ben Wheatley has been busy making his latest feature, an adaptation of J.G Ballard’s High Rise. Until now, his filming schedule on High Rise precluded any appearances at the the public events surrounding Deep Breath, so it was a genuine treat to see him talk at this week’s RTS Doctor Who: Anatomy Of A Hit event. Along with Steven Moffat, Millenium FX artist Rob Mayor and Who producers Brian Minchin and Nikki Wilson, Wheatley shared his experiences of making Peter Capaldi’s first full episodes as the Doctor… It started with a conversation with my agent years ago....

Following successful runs in Australia and New Zeleand, the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular arena show reiterated that case on its first UK tour last week, drawing crowds across the nation. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and members of the National Chorus of Wales went from Wembley to Glasgow over the course of seven dates, in celebration of composer Murray Gold’s spellbinding musical score for the series. The show is presented by Peter Davison – in character not as the Fifth Doctor, but as the version of himself we saw in the hilarious Five-ish Doctors Reboot – an insecure and competitive compère who has the threat of being replaced by Colin Baker again looming over his head (“There’s a car waiting outside his house right now”) all the way through the show....

Which is fitting, really, when you consider the idea of hiding in plain sight is one of this show’s many conceits. If we are allegedly created in God’s image, how better to hide from your sworn enemies than to live among them? The same can be said about the vaunted Chosen One. Apart from divinely inked tattoos, mankind’s savior could be someone as innocuous as the boy next door. Indeed, he could be your childhood sweetheart....

As Lady Cora reminded us this week, “A house party can fall so flat if there’s no special moment”. So – presumably went Julian Fellowes’ train of thought – can series four of a glossy TV drama. What’s needed is a show-stopper, something to stick a rocket up Twitter and overspill the margins of next weekend’s op ed pages. Shock deaths are blasé now. A rape should be just the ticket....

The nights are closing in, which makes it time for the gates to Downton Abbey’s theme park of escapist wealth, posh frocks and Maggie Smith doing all the good bits to squeak ceremonially open and admit us twenty-first century oiks. ‘Look, a tiny spoon just for hazelnuts! How darling’ we gasp. ‘And look! Unjust social divisions, casual racism and a patriarchy that keeps women in check.’ Isn’t it elegant. Unlike its series three counterpart, which had a glossy wedding and Shirley Maclaine to recommend it, this opening episode is a bleak affair....

Emerald City Season 1, Episode 9 The season-long arc of Emerald Cityreally took shape in tonight’s penultimate episode. Much attention was paid to the way in which this show was shot: almost like a Netflix drama, in that it was given a ten-episode direct-to-series order from the get-go. Tarsem Singh not only directed all ten episodes, but he did it all before the pilot even aired. This allows for one, big story that, wherever you may fall in interest, is impressive in its determination to tell it....

5.5 Quartet Fancy manages to get Morse to replace him in the giant running race, which gifts us with the sight of Shaun Evans struggling to get out of an oversized mascot’s costume. The day ends up being memorable for far bleaker reasons; the West German competitor slumps to the ground, seemingly from heatstroke, just as a young boy (Hector Bateman-Hardman) in the crowd crumples to the floor in agony as his mother (Jennifer Tollady) screams for help....

Falling Water Season 1, Episode 2 Not that it isn’t fun watch Tess, for one, operate in a group dream setting. It made a certain amount of sense that a less skilled dreamer would be shown gardening in an enclosed room while Tess headed off to the more lucid group sitting in their airplane seats, odd as that may sound. The whole “purity of the data” concept was perfectly clear from the experimental standpoint, as was Tess’ decision to ignore the rules and look for her son, even though the dream itself was slightly off-kilter....

2.7 Shiva The cracks appeared almost immediately. After all, Celia worked pretty hard at extracting Nick, the most vulnerable one of the group, from his mother’s orbit. And that was before the zombies in the basement came to light while Chris, Nick, and Salazar began to really start fraying under the pressure of this post-apocalyptic nightmare world (though you could argue that neither Nick nor Salazar had a good time in the pre-apocalyptic world, what with being a damaged junkie and a shell-shocked torturer, respectively)....

2.8 Grotesque This kind of power vacuum invites trouble, particularly when you’re a blood-soaked American junkie who doesn’t know the language or the customs or even how to avoid getting robbed and beaten by an emaciated girl protecting her brother. This is a world in which circumstances can change in a heartbeat. One week, the people huddling in a church are fine, with plenty of food and water. The next week, they’re dead, and Nick is sleeping next to a pair of mangled dead bodies....

I first played Final Fantasy 14 back in 2010 in its original form and like a lot of gamers, I came away thinking that Square Enix had finally succeeded in killing off its most valuable franchise. Quests were broken, the frame rate was awful, combat was a joke; in short, the title got very little right and everything else wrong. But as of April 2014, Final Fantasy 14 PlayStation gamers are second fiddle no more....

When the first series of Fresh Meat was announced, my expectations were set sky high. A comedy drama dreamt up by Bain and Armstrong, the creators of the superlative Peep Show starring The Inbetweeners’ Joe Thomas, Greg McHugh, better known to Scottish viewers as Gary: Tank Commander, and young stand-up Jack Whitehall. Oh well, can’t have it all I s’pose… So! We come to the first episode of a new semester for our not-so-freshers and it starts with JP finding out exactly how much he doesn’t know about one of his oldest, and closest, friends....

This review contains spoilers. When a show comes back from hiatus it’s generally good form to get your regular viewers excited about the return, perhaps by delivering something special. The writers of Fringe didn’t get that memo, because very little in A Short Story About Love was special, from my perspective. I mean, how many crazy scientists are there in the world of Fringe? An infinite number it seems, because whenever they’re stuck for an idea they fall back on them, adding increasingly bizarre ways to kill people, inevitably for a greater good…or a lost love....