2.12 Master Plan The missing Stiles, as expected, turns up in the Argent’s basement. After picking a fight with the “90-year-old” Gerard – and getting beaten up for his troubles – Stiles is returned home after serving his purpose: distracting Scott and Isaac. Stiles’ pungent stench was used as bait for Scott, a distraction if you will, to keep them off the trail of Gerard’s real plan. And boy, if you thought it was conniving before when he was manipulating his daughter, just wait to see what he’s got in store for Scott and company this week....

3.6 Motel California This information is mostly conferred via various werewolf characters mumbling along to ADR or Lydia looking concerned by things that only she can hear. However, when Teen Wolf did show us the various methods of possible wolfy suicide, the results were pretty good. It was a bit like Final Destination, albeit without the gore. There was never any real danger, but there was a successful creation of tension thanks to director and writer Christian Taylor (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Six Feet Under)....

What Remains Still, as it turns out, it wasn’t all that bad. But only because my expectations were very low to begin with. It certainly wasn’t that good either, and the ridiculously clunky insertion of the common cold into the plot gave a sense of plodding inevitability to the show’s conclusion, but it had its moments. Not least the revelation of what a complete psychopath Taylor was in his army days....

The 100 Season 4 Episode 7 This is a quiet episode of The 100, one that was meant to be connective tissue. But it gets the mood just right, particularly in the final act, which really elevates the episode far beyond what could have easily just been filler. The lift from the soundtrack doesn’t hurt, either. The heart of the Ark storyline, though, is Bellamy and Kane. Bellamy is still hurting from his past actions, particularly since Octavia did not mince words last week when she told him he would be dead if he weren’t her brother....

Producer Jason Rothenberg, along with a talented roster of directors and writers, imbued this fledgling show with a welcome gravitas by exploring themes that run deeper than a typical genre show. It’s one thing to survive, but the bigger feat is to somehow keep your humanity intact. It’s a theme the show’s creators explored with great confidence throughout the season. Indeed, The 100 really hit its stride with the episode Contents Under Pressure, in which the torture of the few is seemingly outweighed by the benefit of the many....

Warning: contains plot details for The Americans 1-6 Tony Soprano. Don Draper. Walter White. Omar Little. Nucky Thompson. Jamie Lannister. That guy from that thing you watch. Stop me when I’ve made my point. That being, TV loves an anti-hero. And why wouldn’t it? There’s very little similar to that relationship we have with a character we know will one day face a reckoning. One that we may or may not welcome, depending on when it happens....

Little Big Planet is full of great music from artists such as Jim Noir, The Go! Team and Battles, to name but a few. Of all the selections that feature in the game, though, it’s Atlas taken from Battles’ 2007 full length debut album Mirrored that’s my highlight. Part prog, part math rock, the song is carried by great drums, a hypnotic riff and indecipherable lyrics. It’s a great fit for this wonderful platform game....

7.20 The Relationship Diremption Technically the A-story (the story referenced in the title) is Sheldon’s and, typically, Leonard, Penny and Amy are essentially reduced to supporting players in Sheldon’s story. Sheldon has what is essentially a mid-life crisis when Kripke asserts that string theory, which both have dedicated their careers to proving, is in fact unprovable. Kripke isn’t bothered by this at all, for he is, as he puts it, a ‘string pragmatist’ and is quite happy to take the funding and run with it....

I think her partner was unfair in saying that this is solely because of Red. Elizabeth has been presented with a jarring reality: That life, even crime, is more complicated that she originally thought. Plus, let’s be real about this — there wasn’t anything THAT shocking about her letting a man finish giving a dying child new lungs before arresting him. There’s seeing things in black and white and then there is being basically a modern-day version of Victor Hugo’s Javert....

The Lich: Part 1 Well, either that, or being evil gives you skin conditions, but that makes no sense. An evil person could just rob some hydrocortisone from a bank or wherever they keep it. No, truly the skin condition is at fault. How better to explain this week’s twist, in which Johnny Orphan (I forget his actual name, and also the fake one he gave) reveals himself to be the episode’s true villain?...

Variety has revealed that Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket, Cuttroat Island), Tom Conti (Shirley Valentine, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence) and Joey King (Ramona And Beezus) have all signed up for the movie. Modine is set to play a character by the name of Nixon, although who or what Nixon is has not been disclosed. And the exact roles of Conti and 11-year-old King are unknown at this stage. No doubt we’ll all find out in due course....

On paper, it sounds like a decent night out at the movies. In practice, sadly, it isn’t. It’s a collection of contrivances that fuel the film, certainly, but then that’s something that the romantic comedy genre has always thrived on. To complain about that would be churlish. What’s more surprising, and it’s a fairer criticism, is how it all fails to gel. The Decoy Bride isn’t a particularly long film, but as it goes along its amiable, predictable path, it does start to feel like a bit of a slog....

After the very stilted start to the show got last week, I was naively hoping that The Deep would get better in its second outing. But, alas, the plot and characters sank yet further into the abyss, possibly beyond all hope of feasible salvage. At no point in the proceedings did she do anything remotely captain-like, and most of the time she seemed to be running the ship by common consensus....

The Flash Season 3 Episode 4 Oh, hello. Was the script for “The New Rogues” left over from season one? That’s not a knock on it, by the way. I enjoyed the hell out of this episode. But it sure did take a lot out of that first season playbook, which is just fine. Villain of the week episodes are unavoidable, and fortunately The Flash is uniquely suited to them, since Central City (and neighboring Keystone) boast the best assortment of colorful supervillains anywhere other than Gotham (the place, not the TV show), or maybe Spidey’s neighborhood in Queens....

Let’s keep things brief, because The Forest is awful and we probably shouldn’t linger here too long. Dormer stars in a dual role as American twin sisters Sara and Jess. Jess is an English teacher in Japan who goes missing in Aokigahara – a real-life stretch of forest skirting Mt Fuji that is infamous for being a destination for the suicidal. Sara senses that her sister is still alive, and so she gets on a plane to Japan and, with the assistance of a toned travel journalist, Aiden (Taylor Kinney), goes on a hunt through the forest to track Jess down....

Currently sitting at a global intake of more than $200 million, The Greatest Showman’s even showier fortunes are all the more impressive when so many wrote the picture off as a box office failure upon its opening weekend. Like Jumanji, this slickly produced musical was released on Dec. 20 and in the shadow of Star Wars’ wide reach. But unlike Jumanji, the movie’s appeal to audiences was less than clear....

Now we also have The Green Man on DVD to enjoy, and it’s a good one that definitely has the feel of a BBC production to it. First shown in three parts in 1990, it’s based on a Kingsley Amis novel and contains a bawdy element that leading man Albert Finney plays up to brilliantly. He has a seedy magnificence as Maurice Allington, the owner of a hotel and restaurant in Cambridgeshire that is apparently haunted by a seventeenth century figure of local legend, Doctor Thomas Underhill....

2.12 Postpartum Not Eden, though. She was the real deal. A true child of Gilead, Eden bought it all, hook line and (pardon the pun) sinker. She didn’t do irony or self-preservation. With the stubbornness of a teenager and the earnestness of a zealot, she refused to dissemble. And it killed her. The tyrannical regime of Gilead technically killed her, but Eden’s unwillingness to lie like everybody else clamped that weight to her ankle....

Brace yourself. The end of The Hunger Games is nigh, and it’s gonna hurt like hell. At the end of Mockingjay Part 1, we left Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) tearfully watching her sometime lover Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) thrash against his restraints. District 13 had rescued the captive rebels from the Capitol, but weeks of torture had left them weak, confused, and even dangerous. President Coin (Julianne Moore) was gearing up her army for a new strike against the tyrannical President Snow’s (Donald Sutherland) regime, but actually winning the war looked like an impossible dream....

It all started so well for Erzsebet. She was born with a diamond-encrusted gold spoon in her mouth in Hungary on the 7th August 1560. After that things just got better. Her family was one of the richest and most powerful in Europe and she was on kissing cousin terms with most of the Royal families. She did blot her pristine copy book a little when she seduced a gardener and fell pregnant but she was just whisked off to one of the seven large estates the family owned and the whole sordid affair hushed up....