Steve’s mission: infiltrate a party with the cool kids. After Hayley forbids Steve from leaving the house, Steve and his friends sneak out the upstairs window. Hayley sees the kids sneaking out and a chase ensues. Hayley asks her boyfriend, Jeff, to help her chase down Steve and co., but he is stoned out of his mind, so he isn’t much help. Jeff…stoned…how unusual! Anyway, Roger gets road rage and tries to pass a car with his horses and carriage....

American Dad Season 13 Episode 4 “The Smiths are going to the art museum!…And that includes me.” Steve Hely’s script nails it. There is not a single line of wasted dialogue. Even the little things pop and I found myself laughing out loud a lot throughout this one. It’s definitely the strongest episode of the season so far. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Principal Lewis also owns an aquarium store....

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you checked your sensitivity at the gate for this one! The episode innocently begins with Francine having some suspicions regarding Stan’s new female work friend, Diane. The issue is a lot clearer to Francine after she ends up having a summit on the topic with Sharon, Caroline, and Connie (Britton), her best friends/war council. When it comes to matters like Stan spending too much time with a new woman at work, these three are irreplaceable....

American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 6 Just when you thought it was over, did you really think American Horror Story would just vanish with a happy ending, if that’s what you call a frantic escape from homicidal ghosts? Among the multitude of Sidney’s so-called brilliant ideas—besides scheduling the show to be filmed during a certain lethal week in October—is putting Matt and Shelby in the same room. That marriage has been dead longer than the ghost who was seducing him....

American Horror Story Season 8 Episode 1 I’m a member of the last generation that had any real fear of global thermonuclear war. I’m well aware that nuclear proliferation has been a bad thing, and there are more and more rogue states attempting to get their hands on nuclear weapons, but I’m not talking about some sort of limited exchange between two countries. I’m talking about a world-shattering throw-down between two superpowers with enough atomic weapons to turn the earth into a glowing cinder....

After weeks of building up to this episode, it’s a lot of pressure for the series, and I’ll be honest, I was fairly nervous going into it. What if it didn’t live up to the expectations the rest of the series had provided? I’m going to cut to the chase: the outcome is the exact finale I would have hoped for, so let’s all just breathe a collective sigh of relief....

As my name does indeed end in a vowel, I got a chuckle out of Officer Lance referring to trying to book somebody on “the goombah trifecta.” Felicity, however, should know that the plural of mafioso is mafiosi. Oh, who am I kidding? She rules. In fact, Arrow displayed more of that slowly burgeoning sense of humor again this week, with two gags that either hinged on or were delivered outright by Felicity....

4.22 Lost In The Flood Compared to the other citizens of dystopia dome, Thea is less cool with this set-up (an existence without crop tops is no existence at all), which forces her concerned father to brainwash her using the same happy pills Ruve forced on the apparently dearly departed Alex. (R.I.P., Alex, we hardly knew thee. Seriously, you never got any character development.) For those keeping track at home, this is the second time Malcolm Merlyn has drugged Thea and asked her to kill someone she loves....

As the culmination of a sixteen-book saga (whether or not the story will continue beyond this volume is uncertain) this book has a lot riding on its shoulders. I’ll be talking about it in much more detail in a spoileriffic look back at the whole series, so this will be a very brief collection of broad thoughts. Ultimately, if you come to this book with the question ‘Is this a satisfying end to this trilogy?...

1.6 The Song of the Sirens Hercules, it seems, is still smitten on Medusa, much to the concern of Jason and Pythagoras. They fear it is a foolish dream and that his heart may be broken, through no fault of the oblivious girl. As they share these fears, they are unaware that it is they who are breaking Hercules heart, as he overhears every word. The Oracle calls upon Jason, as her dreams foretell a danger that is approaching, a woman lurking in darkness....

One of the show’s strengths has been showing little slice-of-life moments as the Avengers they live together. It’s part Super Friends, part Real World, and it is much better than I just made it sound. This episode begins with Hulk pissed off that someone took his peanut butter to which Thor replies “What care I for the butter of peanuts?” This is funny and well done stuff that captures the viewer’s attention before the action begins....

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But what started out as a revolution, for Gaeta and a select few at least, has quickly become a bloody coup. The action picks up from last week’s humdinger of a cliffhanger offering up the fates of the President as well as Adama and Tigh. Predictably, they all survive and what I love about BSG is it doesn’t beat around the bush in letting us know. Far from simply bowing to the audience’s lust for knowledge, these moments of instant gratification set the action in motion straight away, ensuring there is no let up in the show’s continued assault on everything we’ve held dear for three and a half seasons....

3.11 If I Only Had a Raw Brain First, there’s Aidan, who finds that Kenny is officially done with his bubble boy lifestyle and is ready for Aidan to either put up or shut up when it comes to getting fangy with Kenny’s neck. Aidan reluctantly agrees and takes Kenny out of his bubble to spend a few days living as a teenage human boy before he gets stuck in perpetual adolescence (truly, the saddest part of Kenny’s story is that he’ll be forever stuck at the actual worst phase in human existence)....

When we were young, everyone used to play Blake’s 7 in the schoolground, but no-one and I mean no-one wanted to play the eponymous hero Roj Blake. We all wanted to be Avon. He was the coolest of the cool, like science fiction’s answer to John Shaft. Kerr Avon wore leather, he had the best lines, the best girls and the biggest laser guns. You’re damn right! Avon was the man we all wanted to be....

2.10 Georgia Peaches Georgia Peaches opens with considerable verve. Nucky’s consignment of Irish whiskey has arrived via Hoboken, and we see a sample case ride Owen’s shoulders all the way to the Ritz Carlton on the boardwalk. It’s presented as a mini-montage to the strains of Strut, Miss Lizzie, eventually blending in with a preacher’s sermon to the striking black workers. Booze, religion, politics – that’s the show summed up in one go....

2.3 A Difficult Maid This growth is shown in the confidence it now has to take its time. A corollary of this maturity is the maintenance of multiple plot strands and character arcs in the work, that it doesn’t feel the need to cram everything in at once. A delicate balance is found, and consequently, we find ourselves, at this stage of the season, not needing to see everybody at once, and A Difficult Maid is an episode without Chalky, while last week’s absentee, Van Alden, is back....

Bonekickers introduces us to the maverick, wildly over-acting Gillian Magwilde (Julie Graham) and her crack team of archaeologists. With a gurgling cry of ‘We start digging’, they proceed to excavate a park in Somerset, and within minutes they’ve uncovered a piece of the True Cross and incurred the wrath of some fundamentalist christians. Elsewhere, there’s a lurid and gratuitous beheading that’s obviously been thrown in to cause some controversy, a fight in an underground chamber full of burning crosses, and one character manages to save herself from death with a bit of impromptu singing (a moment that is sure to go down in history as the most jaw-droppingly awful sequences in television ever)....

This review contains spoilers. Trish Winterman’s rape may be at the centre of Broadchurch series three, but around it, a thought-provoking case file is being compiled on sex, power and the ways straight male sexuality can harm women and girls. By placing story threads about online porn, sleazy pin-ups, adultery, teen sexting (if that’s what Daisy’s storyline turns out to be), even dating apps—adjacent to the attack on Trish, this series tacitly prompts us to consider the relationship between it all....