The Expanse Season 1 Episode 7 Miller’s arc this week found him deciding what to do now that he’s been cut loose from Star Helix, and his choice to keep going, although not surprising, is difficult to take in given the audience’s incomplete picture of Julie Mao. Miller’s infatuation, if that’s what it is, is starting to look as pathetic as perhaps Tavi Muss thinks it is. Dawes thinks Miller has been freed from servitude to Earth’s security force, and perhaps Miller’s journey to Eros following a thin lead will transform the now ex-cop into a more interesting crusader rather than an obsessed puzzle solver....

The Flash Season 3 Episode 12 Well, I went and did it. I jinxed it. After weeks of going on and on about how there was nary a filler episode in site for much of this season, we ended up with “Untouchable” this week. But I’ll stand by my continued confidence that this is the strongest season of The Flash ever, pound for pound, because “Untouchable” isn’t really all that bad....

The Flash Season 3 Episode 5 Wow. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an episode of The Flash quite like this one. A standalone episode like “Monster” seems like it would be an excuse to be disposable, right? Roll out an obscure villain, heap in some clever DC Comics trivia, and sleepwalk your way towards that 23 episode obligation. Nope. Not tonight! In virtually every way, “Monster” managed to defy expectations....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 4 Now that’s more like it! It’s still a fairly thin story with no real villain to speak of. I don’t care this time, though. For the first time this season it felt like it was all by design. The point here, after all, is to introduce Ralph Dibny, and anything else would be a distraction. But when you do need a distraction, you’re not gonna find a better one than Danny Trejo....

1.6 Lost And Found So many potential plot directions had been set up for the finale of The Frankenstein Chronicles. The mysteries of missing children, stitched corpses, suspicious surgeons and untrustworthy politicians had stretched so coiled-tendon tense that the final snap promised an electrified punch. That the hit didn’t really ever come, leaving us flinching and “…huh?” was confusing, unfulfilling… and ballsy as hell. This is how ITV mystery-thrillers are supposed to go – weird murder/murders, good casting, red herring, red herring, red herring, wrong person framed, good guy turns out to be bad guy, showdown in last ten minutes, hero wins/dies, credits roll, audience satisfied: can move on with lives....

How do you take a show whose serendipitous timing made it the most prescient thing on television last year, and improve it without falling prey to the sophomore slump and the temptation to be too on the nose? If the first season was largely seen as a too-real depiction of our possible future, The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 is a portrait of our present. The second season of Hulu’s award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale takes us to a place that is all at once darker, and much closer to home....

As the rock music video genre teaches, fire makes everything twice as exciting. At least twice as exciting. That meant The Last Kingdom’s blazing denouement, in which the East Anglian fortress of Bumfluff burnt to the ground alongside Aethelflaed and Erik’s hope of a happy ending, was almost too thrilling. I had to defrost the freezer afterwards just to calm down. Hard cut to Alfred, a man freighted with the painful choice between the safety of his country and that of his daughter....

The identity of the man at the bottom of the loch is finally unearthed and he proves to have a significant connection to one of Lochnafoy’s families. Mhari Toner is desperate for Annie to reveal anything that would exonerate Dessie and Craig Petrie finally hits some consequences for his actions. Meanwhile, Quigley and Albrighton clash on their theories around the murderer. Quigley doesn’t want to look any further than Dessie, but Albrighton remains convinced that the teenager had help....

This part of the walkthrough looks at the sixth episode from The Mick’s second season. Previous installments can be found here. Episode 8 – “The Teacher” “Sabrina’s relationship with her poetry teacher has Mickey concerned, so Mickey takes matters into her own hands and humiliates the both of them in front of her peers. Meanwhile, Chip enlists Jimmy’s help to improve his ranking on the 8th grade hot list.” DEN OF GEEK: Eva Longoria directs this one!...

2.8 The Mountain What am I saying? Julien mother-flipping Baptiste was his downfall. The moment Sophie accidentally drew Baptiste into the investigation by uttering her real name in that ambulance, Gettrick’s days were numbered. Julien was relentless in his pursuit of Sophie and Alice’s kidnapper, crossing continents, playing fast and loose with the rules, paying no thought to his own safety and stopping at nothing. Until, that is, he did stop....

2.2 An Ordinary Man Directed by John Strictland (from last week’s Keep Your Friends Close) and written by Pete McKenna (who also wrote the first series episode, Knight Takes Queen), An Ordinary Man is a step-up from last week’s so-so season opener bringing some much needed thrills and depth whilst also seeing the return of a first season favourite, Milady. Somewhat surprisingly given her importance to last season’s overarching storyline, An Ordinary Man isn’t Milady’s story....

Reading that intro you would think that this column had been held in the deep freeze for the past six months, but with the recent spate of ‘year in reviews’ everywhere, it’s actually become quite accurate once again. No-one comes out of these sorts of ads well. Southerners, by contrast, must be a heartless bunch of commuting financial workers, who would sell their gran to get entry into the latest club that Noel Fielding has been photographed in by the London Lite....

As usual feel free to discuss whether you’re watching along or you’ve seen it all, but please don’t spoil future episodes for anyone in the comments. Let’s hand it to the Punisher team, because they did what no series has done so far: they stuck the landing. Unlike Daredevil S1, which was pretty good all the way through and only faltered slightly in the climactic episodes, The Punisher got everyone where they were going, on-theme, without anyone dressing up in a stupid costume and with a plot that actually made sense....

As dreamed up by writer-director James DeMonaco, the Purge series’ backdrop is both ridiculous and oddly believable: in the near future, America has saved itself from financial oblivion by introducing the Purge, an annual event which sees all laws suspended for a period of 12 hours. This “Halloween for grown-ups” fulfils multiple functions, since it allows American citizens to vent their violent tendencies while at the same time wiping out society’s weakest and poorest – thus saving the state a fortune in housing and health care....

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. In another side note to Simpsons’ trope, we get the hyper-reality documentary, with mystery, intrigue and deceit. Bart’s hijinks get him thrown in detention. Not just any detention, the longest detention ever imposed in Springfield Elementary. The irrepressible boil on small town society’s ass crumples his repressions and repeatedly slam dunks them into basketball glory. Why not? He’s been a hockey chump, his old man was taken off the bench to pinch for Daryl Strawberry and owned the Denver Broncos for a little while....

The Simpsons: Season 29 Episode 18 The Simpsons season 29, episode 18, “Forgive And Regret” is a very special episode. It marks the series’ 636th installment, which puts it one ahead of the western series Gunsmoke in the longest-running primetime scripted show in TV history race. But saying a “very special episode” about The Simpsons doesn’t mean the same thing as it does to other comedies who use the phrase to let people know there’s more than just comedy going on, and to prepare viewers to be moved emotionally....

The Son Episode 9 The Son season 1, episode 9, “The Prophecy,” sends mixed messages. Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) will live up to his potential, but suffer the curse of success as the season and the empire looks to be winding down. The Lamina, which is what good Christians call the Comanches, aren’t people to the self-proclaimed divinely in tuned. A few weeks ago, Toshaway (Zahn McClarnon), the chief, admitted that all peoples demonize their enemies to make conquest easier on the conscience....

1.12 Sitting Ducks With every episode, The Tomorrow People seems to get dumber and dumber. The show, the premises, the characters… everything appears to be sliding farther down the intellectual scale, and there don’t seem to be any sign of improvement on the horizon. Everyone, save the main antagonist, appears to have taken a double dose of dumb pills this week, starting with Stephen. Stephen is suspicious of his mother’s new boyfriend, which makes sense because Stephen is suspicious of everyone now that he’s taken a job with Ultra....

Inside Out In the run up to its release, it seems churlish now to consider that Inside Out was being pigeon-holed as a movie take on the cartoon strip The Numskulls, given that it followed the antics of the characters inside the head of a girl, who controlled just what she did. In other hands, that would have been enough perhaps. Yet Pete Docter and Ronne Del Carmen’s astonishing film had so, so much more than that going on, using this set-up to explore difficult themes....