Things pick up right where they left off last season as Sarah Manning, the protagonist clone, chases after her just kidnapped daughter. Last year, Orphan Black established an absolutely frenetic pace; a twisted journey into paranoia for Sarah who must deal with a world that has suddenly gone insane around her. Sarah runs to the only safe place a clone can run to in this situation, a gay rave. She finds much needed salvation in her step brother Felix and his chaps....

Mark Corrigan calls his dildo Kenneth, you see, which brings to light the radical notion that he has a rather saucy side to his bedroom antics. I always had the impression that sex for Mark was something of an alien concept. Kenneth came to pass as Mark and Dobby’s relationship continues apace, although Mark’s obvious self-doubt and worries about Dobby returning to former boyfriend Simon resurfaced. There was a particularly nice scene where Jez’s obvious admiration for Mark’s dildo-owning prowess came to the fore....

“Well, OK,” Capaldi gamely said when a fan asked him to talk about his hair transformation from short in his first season to increasingly out of control in his third. “I didn’t really want to have short hair when we started, but there was a lot of pressure to have short hair, so I ended up having my hair cut in the makeup van,” explained Capaldi. Capaldi said he hadn’t had it as long as it got since he was 17, so he hadn’t realized what he was “unleashing on the world and on the extremely patient and wonderful people who work in the makeup department....

I will give the writers this, they at least built up to it but it’s still such a waste. It’s just another standard romance plot when it could have been so much more. We could have had Gia outright telling Jake, “Hey, stop being a creep around me.” I guess I can settle for the moral of this episode being, “Be yourself, be straightforward, and that will be the most attractive thing you can do....

So the episode is a bodyswap episode. That’s great, Power Rangers has done it several times before. Probably best remembered is the first, with Billy and Kimberly switching in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. That was a ton of fun and took full advantage of the concept. Like Jake, Kimberly was a popular kid in school and Billy, like Noah, is a nerd. Jake and Noah switch and we get a few bits of them acting different but it all seems so rushed and is almost completely forgotten once the action gets rolling....

For as much as this season has tried to sell itself as “epic” it’s rarely managed to do so until this episode. When millions of ships come to attack the earth, we see tons of reaction shots from the people of Harwood. Ernie and Burley both get solid scenes that build on what little characterization they’ve received throughout the last two seasons. It makes us feel connected to the city and makes us want to root for the Rangers more (who happen to be in a quarry and not the city, but whatever)....

1.5 South Will Rise Again Of course, as Jesse will undoubtedly learn, his powers aren’t quite as easy to control as he might assume. After all, he told Tracy Lorch to open her eyes, and she did exactly that. She’s still a vegetable, but she’s at least a vegetable with open eyes. He tells another parishioner to open his heart to his mother, and he does so literally. Sure, he’s poking around in the brains of people who are mostly odious, but there’s something sinister behind Jesse’s power that he’s not quite aware of....

2.5 Dallas As Jesse found out last week, Tulip’s married. Jesse, predictably, didn’t take it well. He’s got a violent temper that he struggles with, and that’s been a continual point throughout the series. Jesse tries, he snaps, and bad things happen. (See also, Eugene banished to Hell.) Even though Jesse did the right thing eventually, it doesn’t have a happy ending, much like his previous attempt to go straight with Tulip at his side....

Lowe also stars in the movie as Ruth, an expectant single mother who has a score to settle with society. Driven by her unborn child – or at least, her unborn child’s voice – Ruth is compelled to commit murder upon murder in what amounts to a pitch-dark but keenly-observed look at the experience of pregnancy in a society that condescends to pregnant women. For instance, a sharply-observed midwife (Eddie The Eagle’s Jo Hartley) is the butt of some early laughs with her chirpy over-familiarity, but is later developed into a more three-dimensional figure – she is, after all, there to help....

1.10 The Great Escape The Great Escape, though not as well constructed and enjoyable as the previous week’s episode, showcases more of the quality script and plotting that was lacking from many of the earlier episodes and though the big development of last week is not touched on or indeed referred to here, and it’s light on additional characters, it’s still an enjoyable romp, albeit one that needs a little bit of suspension of disbelief in parts due to some clunky plot advancements....

At least lead villain Djimon Hounsou has forsaken Samuel L. Jackson’s appalling snow-white wig, but I fear that may only be for budgetary reasons. Push follows a rag-tag collection of psychic and telekinetic refugees failing to hide from the US government’s own psychic forces in Hong Kong; what was exotic about Jumper‘s foreign locations is a little more suspect here, as we arrive in Hong Kong and stay there. This can only make us wonder if location work in that city turned out to be particularly convenient for this production, which would presumably have cost a great deal more if set in Los Angeles, New York, or possibly even Canada....

Perhaps what might cheer me up is a trip to a magic show, or that’s the plan put forward by Chuck when she organises herself, Ned, Emerson and Olive to an evening out in this week’s episode, Oh Oh Oh…It’s Magic. The Great Hermann employs Emerson Cod to discover why his supporting players; a monkey, two doves and a rabbit, have all died in unfortunate circumstances. The problem is that none of these are suitable recipients for Ned’s special touch, as they’d be unlikely to say who killed them....

Yesterday, the teaser trailer for the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace, broke, and, to be blunt, it’s bloody brilliant. Bond films have a long tradition of fantastic trailers, showcasing the requisite thrills and spills, evil villains and beautiful women that make Bond the institution it so rightly is, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Without going too much into the film’s plot, the teaser gives away just enough of the murky, complex world Bond is about to be thrown into....

1.5 The Golem Golem n [From Hebr. Galmi] A supernatural shapeless form or entity fashioned from clay, often malevolent in nature. Ezra’s hallucinatory impression of Mickey Donovan came from out of nowhere, both in-universe and out. It felt odd seeing CGI in what is ordinarily a straight-up realist(ish) drama but two things excused it. Number one, that it was the very real result of Ezra’s tumour. Number two, it appeared in the best episode thus far of Ray Donovan and was driven by the very welcome acceleration of momentum....

After Currahee provided an initial introduction to the men of Easy Company, Day Of Days was a jolting wake-up call. The veterans at the episode’s start remind us of just how many men they lost on that first jump. Judging by the opening few minutes of confusion and carnage, you begin to wonder why it wasn’t so many more. This episode revolves around Operation Overlord which took place on the 6th of June 1944....

Proceedings open with a corrupt lawyer accused of sexual assault who suffers some sort of attack and gets taken into Kingdom Hospital. The lawyer is saved and put in the same room as Rolf, who has also been saved and relocated, but is badly burned. There is a definite pattern emerging here, as each episode opens with somebody being taken into A&E who is, shall we say, of questionable character....

2.3 Elementary Dear Data The two enter the Holodeck in full period dress and set about giving Cumberbatch & Freeman a run for their money. But as the story begins, Data instantly solves the case, having recognised it from his memory banks. You know how it’s possible to complete Myst in about two minutes if you’ve played it before? Yeah, the Holodeck equivalent of that. Irritated at being spoilered, Geordi runs up to Ten-Forward....

4.10 The Loss In her office, Deanna contacts Crusher complaining of dizziness, but Crusher has a tonne of minor injuries to deal with so she tells Deanna to hang tight. On the bridge, the Enterprise crew are probing their situation and realising that they may well be stuck. Without Wesley to solve the problem, Geordi and Data get down to some serious computer modelling and reveal that the sensor ghosts weren’t ghosts (disarm the Oujia Torpedoes, Mr....

2.12 The Royale The Enterprise arrives at Theta VIII, a hostile and uninhabitable planet, where they’ve been diverted to look for some unusual debris in orbit. The plan is for a quick, trouble-free stop and speedy return to their original assignment. Because isn’t it always? Of course, when they find the debris – part of an Earth vessel from the 21st Century – things get a little more complicated. After discovering a structure on the planet – one with breathable atmosphere –Riker, Data and Worf beam down....

2.17 Up the Long Ladder After sending Riker to meet them (off camera) Picard happily agrees to evacuate the Bringloidi colonists and take them to a nearby starbase, leading to a hilarious scene where O’Brien transports a bunch of people, two sheep, a goat and a chicken onto the Enterprise only for them to gawp like the space-yokels they are. Also, for some reason, he transports a load of hay with them as well (can’t get the staff…)....