Sonya has been brilliant at misdirection ever since she kidnapped a juror’s family while simultaneously bribing the judge in Julian’s trial last season. This week was no different. Just as I was ready to gripe about the bright orange flash drive conspicuously sticking out of the server tower at Piron, I realized, “Ooohh, she WANTED to get caught!” Never mind that Lucas, the king of mind control technology, wanted to flood Halo users’ brains with unbridled fear: a pretty cool idea if you ask me....

1.6 Arsenic And Old Cake It’s clear from its bizarre opening scene that this is not going to be your garden variety Copper episode. A dentist and his patient getting high on painkillers? His wife coming up and deciding to yank the tooth herself – and it turns out to be the wrong one? Hysterical laughing and a sudden punch to the face? Are we in the right show? Arsenic and Old Cake (the title is a nod to an appropriately silly play about two old ladies who poison widowed old men to put them out of their misery) takes a lighter tone, in the main murder-of-the-week storyline at least....

Holmes was overstepping his boundaries, as he consistently does on the show, and Ali, played by comedian Jamie Lee, rightfully scolds the wannabe comic for interfering. In a weird way, the truism from Pete’s dad sets up the dynamic between Pete and Ali, a budding relationship that gives Pete a new outlook on his personal and professional life. So who better to step into the role of Ali than someone who’s had comedic chemistry with Holmes for nearly a decade?...

2.12 Is Josh Free In Two Weeks? Because we know it’s a terrible idea for Josh and Rebecca to get married right now. It’s possibly a bad idea for Josh and Rebecca to get married ever, but it’s definitely a terrible idea for them to get married right now, having only been together for a little while, in a rush-job wedding that’s only been hastened along because Rebecca feels so guilty about snogging Nathaniel....

Actually, that brief description doesn’t come close to capturing what this mod offers. When we say that you can play as one of the game’s bosses, we don’t mean that you get to control them in the boss fight or in a very limited scenario. We mean that this mod lets you pick a boss and explore the entirety of Dark Souls 3‘s world as that character. Needless to say, that’s an ambitious concept....

“Consultant” is a broad term in Hollywood that can mean a lot of things; we were concerned about what it meant for screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the first Deadpool and were part of that “gang of four,” including star/producer Ryan Reynolds and now-departed director Tim Miller, who stuck with the first movie through its decade of development hell. Asked about the tone of the second movie, which will introduce a larger universe including characters like Cable and Deadpool, Reese said: We have yet to hear about an actual official start date for Deadpool 2 under director David Leitch, and Cable still has to be cast, but with the arrival of the recent teaser and an actress now locked for Domino – and what we heard above from Reese and Wernick — our favorite merc should be mouthing off in front of the cameras real soon....

It centres on Eric Bana’s Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, a New York cop who’s had his fair share of dark days. Married to the job, but with a wife and child back home, Sarchie finds himself called to investigate an event you could best describe as not normal. Along with his partner, played by Community‘s Joel McHale, he encounters something that seems to be more than bordering on the paranormal and unexplained....

Though you’ve probably worked it out already, because it’s not a particularly hard thing to figure out. But still, I shan’t spoil it if you haven’t. Anyway. Apparently, someone must have noticed that despite all the chopping up of bodies and rampant swearing, there’s been very little sex in Dexter thus far. So this week, everyone has sex. A lot. There’s very little actually happening in this episode, because it’s all character-driven stuff; and that’s a really nice change of pace for this show....

As with all my Dexter reviews, it’s impossible to talk about this show without spoilers, so if you’ve not watched this, I’d stop here. It seems fitting, therefore, that the penultimate story gives some space for contemplation before the finale, and, to a degree, that’s what’s on offer here. I’m almost running out of superlatives for how well season four has gone. There’s always a tension with statements like that, the potential for defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory....

I’ve left it 10 hours since I saw the Dexter finale, and I’m still in a degree of shock. Later in this review I’m going to say why, so if you haven’t seen it then please don’t read on. I say that sincerely, because this episode of Dexter has brass clangers of which an African bull elephant would surely be proud. It starts exactly where episode 11 ended with Arthur stood in the homicide office, and Dexter petrified where this goes next....

5.10 In The Beginning But then the season was always going to have an explosive finale, from the moment that Dexter saved Lumen, and with her a huge can of worms that got unleashed. Before In The Beginning, we didn’t really get much of a handle on the sort of person that Jordan Chase was under the marketing driven exterior, but now how nasty a piece of work he is has finally been revealed....

6.12 This Is The Way The World Ends Season four of Dexter was so good, on so many different levels, that what’s come along since has paled by comparison. Many people didn’t care for the Lumen plotline of season five, although I’d be the first to say that, in retrospect, it was superior to what we ended up with in this sixth run. Having just watched This Is The Way The World Ends, I’m both excited by the prospect of season seven (and eight), but at the same time, concerned that standards appear to be slipping....

The news has been reverberating around the internet all day, and guess what? He’s been shot by his father, the one we all thought was dead, Dr Thomas Wayne. Of course, it’s not the first time that Wayne has given up the Batcowl. Longtime readers will recall the Knightfall/Knightquest saga back in the early 1990s when Bruce Wayne’s back was broken by the villainous Bane and a new younger model – Jean-Paul Valley....

The Spear of Destiny concerns Norse mythology, mined to varying effect in Terminus, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and The Curse of Fenric. As with much of the Letts/Dicks era of Doctor Who, a rational scientific explanation is sought for the magical or fantastic – in this case the pantheon of Viking gods, incorporating the spear that pierced Jesus’ side for good measure. Intermingled with this is a yarn that feels like a tick-list of Third Doctor era tropes may have been compiled in advance....

10.11 World Enough And Time I really liked World Enough And Time. I want to say that up front, because there’s something I need to get off my chest about the last ten minutes of so of the episode. It’s best to do that first, I figured. Back when the Cyberman encountered the fifth Doctor in the terrific story Earthshock, the BBC went to great lengths to protect fans from spoilers....

With the Doctor shot by a Dalek, left in the midst of a regeneration and no preview for the episode that followed, that’s as close to leaving you on a knife edge that the show has managed since it came back. And for once, none of the spoilers, trailers or news stories ever seemed to see it coming. To pull a shock ending like that in the modern world is an exceptional achievement....

It didn’t really help that the whole story this week is encapsulated by two really stupid plot points that could only be attributed to sloppy writing at best. The story starts with Echo being a midwife on top of a mountain! WTF? I know medical insurance isn’t cheap, but that is the lamest excuse for erasing a person’s brain I can come up with! Surely if it was important, you wouldn’t subject a pregnant women and unborn child to the blood pressure and oxygen deficit issues associated with high attitude?...

‘Man On The Street’ is the first of those and right out of the shotgun it has an entirely different feel, like it was written by a subtly different team that stumbled through the first five. But being distinctly edgy is just one of the improvements I noticed, and there are many more. It begins with a series of street interviews conducted by an LA TV network on the ‘urban myth’ of Dollhouse, with some funny reactions to the concept....

DuckTales Episode 22 So was anyone else reminded of Fantasia while watching this episode? I know I gush every week about the DuckTales animation team but here they really went above and beyond. Cleverly on writer Frank Angones’ part much of the episode takes place in one location, letting the animation team focus solely on our main cast of characters. Without much big action the characters faces and bodies get a new level of nuance that are essential for the biggest bomb drop of the series so far....

This was my worry going into Elvis & Nixon, and this is still how I feel after Elvis & Nixon. But that isn’t to say that there weren’t moments of fun in between. True, I never suspended my disbelief long enough to forget that I was watching General Zod as Elvis – with all the wiry Shannon eccentricities and not much of the “uh, thank you very much” – but that’s not altogether a bad thing....