The zits develop throughout the episode, with them moving from the top of his head to his tongue, the rest of his body, his eyelids, and eventually massive boils breaking through his shell. It looks disgusting, and the animators make it worse/better by having them wobble and constantly threatening to burst open during the climactic fight. The problem is that the episode wants to play the zits almost popping as humorous, but the animation doesn’t quite reach that level of Sam Raimi gross-out humor it was aiming for (although I’m sure this played much better with a younger audience)....

Spoilers ahead. Bellamy understands how duress can impair judgment, causing people to take big risks and even bigger leaps of faith. In his heart, Finn believed only he could rescue Clarke, until the very idea of finding her consumed him. The fact that the survivors are ostensibly at war with the Grounders (who are themselves also survivors) magnifies every choice, every decision, into matters of life and death. But is the idea of ‘extreme times, extreme measures’ a valid justification for committing heinous acts?...

1.7 Contents Under Pressure Clarke hasn’t really worked for me as a protagonist primarily because of her too often-stated goodness and heroism never really being backed up by actions. We were told of her leadership qualities and good heart in the very first scene of the series and, once down on the ground, she immediately took the reins and proceeded to demonstrate her near-superhuman knowledge and skill set for absolutely everything....

The Apprentice has gone a bit upmarket this series. Not the show per se, rather the quality of booze I’m intending to consume while watching it, before subsequently slurring words onto the page. As such, I chanced upon the Marks & Spencers dine in for two for a tenner offer, that gets you some posh grub and a bottle of wine into the bargain. The wine flatters to deceive, in truth, but I figured it worked out around £3 for the bottle....

11.7 The Geology Methodology Bert’s back! I like Bert, he was one of the better additions of last season, and he really does bring a different energy to the show. That’s as true as ever here, as his kind innocence rubs up against Sheldon’s narcissism and hostility towards ‘lesser’ sciences. The trouble starts when Bert asks Sheldon for help on a project that would interest the both of them. Sheldon refuses at first because no matter how interesting it is, ‘it’s still geology’, but eventually he decides to participate in secret....

Saga Norén is a creature of routine. Her emotions are walled in by years of isolation, circumscribed by force of habit: coping mechanisms so entrenched that they’ve become a way of life. It works, just about – that is, until something unpredictable disrupts the established pattern. Then things fall apart. Over three series of The Bridge, we’ve learnt more about this most unorthodox of detectives, scrutinising her face for the occasional glimpse of what lies beneath the surface impassivity....

The Flash Season 2 Episode 17 “Your plan is asinine.” It’s true. Barry’s plan was indeed “asinine.” Luckily “Flash Back” was anything but. I’m prepared to take some heat for this one, though. I’ll be perfectly honest: I’m not sure I completely understood “Flash Back” but I did like it. I rather enjoy when this show just decides it’s going to be Doctor Who for an episode. And really, that’s what this felt like to me....

Can we please talk about Caitlin Snow, and what a huge mess The Flash has made of her this season? It feels like a good time to do so, her being kidnapped again and all. No, Caitlin is continually shafted in Team Flash storylines, and her only function at this point seems to act as the girlfriend for soon-to-die male heroes/villains. We went through it with Ronnie twice, and then this season her purpose was to get close to Jay while everyone else was chasing Zoom....

2.20 Rupture Except of course that Barry’s not really dead, but that doesn’t really take away from the impact of those final ten minutes. After weeks of really doubting that this is a show that can surprise me anymore, it delivered a really good episode with a solid cliff-hanger that’s not even close to the finale. Last year that wouldn’t have been a particular surprise but, this year? It kinda is....

Oh, and it’s widely considered to be one of the most violent shows to ever grace primetime television. However, things come tumbling down eight years later when Carroll escapes custody with the help of a prison guard gone rogue. Hardy is called back in to help the FBI catch Carroll as a consultant. Carroll’s wife Claire Matthews (played by Natalie Zea) – who had an affair, and has an ongoing romance, with Ryan – Carroll’s son Joey, as well as the lone survivor of Carroll’s torturing, are all provided with security....

My hopes for The Following were simple. I wanted what I always want out of a basic cable drama – decent writing of solid-enough characters. Give great actors those two things and typically they can elevate them into something I can give my attention or maybe even my heart to. What I got was a filmed world which opened in medias res with a quietly bloody prison break, dragged me in, and never let me come back....

1.4 Mad Love This is generally the show’s aesthetic, but this week’s episode features more blacked-out screen in sixty minutes than some entire movies, and no doubt part of that is due to this week’s director, Henry Bronchtein. He goes overboard both on moody lighting and on the shaky camera work, particularly when attempting to inject some harrowing action into specific scenes involving the serial killer trio. It doesn’t really work most of the time....

3.14 Dead Or Alive & 3.15 The Reckoning But first, let’s claw through the last two episodes of the season, shall we? The season has been a bit back-loaded in terms of its craziness and violence, and the last two episodes—burned off once again by Fox in an effort to run through the series and replace it with some Top Chef or American Idol—really turn the dial up to 11 to send Kevin Bacon and company off into the sunset with a bang....

It’s nice, and I can always find something, but it’s not always what I want. Sometimes, instead of watching Seduction Cinema’s Playmate of the Apes, starring Misty Mundae and featuring Darian Caine, I have to settle for Gladiator Eroticus, starring Darian Caine and featuring Misty Mundae. Really, it flies in the face of what democracy is all about and should be an affront to any person who loves freedom, but technology is a harsh mistress....

The House is the directorial debut of Andrew Jay Cohen, co-writer of the Bad Neighbours films, and finds another couple in yet another naughty situation. However, this couple is much further along than Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne’s new parents, as devoted dad Scott (Ferrell) and mum Kate (Amy Poehler) prepare to send their only daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) off to Bucknell University, their alma mater. But when she’s cruelly denied a promised scholarship by city councilman Bob (Nick Kroll), Scott and Kate are forced to take desperate measures to secure Alex’s future....

The prospect of Cage playing Superman appears set to go down in the ‘In-Hindsight-That Would-Have-Been-Horrible Hall of Fame’ alongside Justin Timberlake as the Green Lantern and, going way back, Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones. Yet, is this fair? On the strength of the dubious image that’s done the rounds on the web – most likely as a comic tag-on to the genuine Tim Burton concept designs – I feel that perhaps the reaction was irrational and ill-considered....

Toy Story 3 is a very upsetting film. It’s even more upsetting than last year’s Pixar tearjerker, the ‘boy scout, old man and a flying house’ adventure story Up. Reflecting on the final instalment of the Toy Story trilogy, I’m left feeling touched, but yet deeply unnerved. Because we live in a society that sees tears as alien abominations that threaten all reason and order, Toy Story 3 is probably the most dangerous and disturbing flick currently in cinemas....

In the post 9/11 climate of panic and suspicion, it’s more likely that people would instantly make an anxious assumption that anything odd was a terrorist plot and pass straight by everyone’s favourite cinematic parapsychologists. Instead of incarceration in an ecto-containment unit, I imagine that this course of action would see Slimer tasered, bagged-and-tagged and taken without trial to Guantanamo Bay. After several days of waterboarding torture, the CIA secure a confession that Stay Puft Marshmallow Man’s 1984 rampage through Manhattan was backed by Al-Qaeda, and that Slimer himself had been conspiring to ectoplasmically attack Barack Obama....

This episode, things only get worse for our twitchy, sweaty, hophead. Thack graduated to burglary in an effort to score some of his sweet, sweet yeyo (my husband assures me this is credible slang for cocaine). Did I say burglary? Add to that, crabby aggression, paranoia, and diva-like behavior. Basically he is being an enormous dick. More of a dick than he was in the season premiere. In other news, Gallinger’s wife managed to kill the new baby by drowning her in an ice water bath (ostensibly to cure a non-existent brain fever)....