The rebooted Tomb Raider series’ third entry, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, continues the franchise’s run of success, marrying pulse-pounding action and challenging puzzles with a staggering, double-take worthy audio-visual presentation. The foundation laid by Crystal Dynamics in the first two titles is further refined and built upon by Eidos Montreal, who aided in the development of the previous games but has now taken the reins as lead developer, with Crystal Dynamics, which is currently working on a new Avengers game, lending support....

“The Sins of My Caretaker” is the ominous title of the episode and sins of the past, present and future is the name of its game. For these primarily Irish-Catholic Chicagoans, only mistakes lay ahead. Meanwhile, we learn of the titular sins in this week’s title at Sheila’s home and board. Turns out making a recovered sexaholic like Jody become her new plaything has awakened the beast within and he now wants to install a sex swing in the bedroom....

This review contains spoilers. It’s been said before but it bears repeating: the BBC’s Sherlock is a master class in the art of the update. It selects from its source material with discrimination, carefully restages some parts in workable modern contexts and wittily disposes of other elements with a flourish. What emerges is something new yet old, something pleasingly recognisable yet still capable of surprise. Tackling The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mark Gatiss faced a toughie....

While not quite Lon Chaney Jr., the accursed man who “is pure at heart and says his prayers by night” in this narrative is Zach Appleman’s Joe Corbin. A bit on the bland and underdeveloped side, Joe earns instant sympathy points because he is the son of the late great Sheriff Corbin, proving that Clancy Brown’s single day of work for the Sleepy Hollow pilot will probably pay off in dividends for years to come for the cult acting hero....

My concern for this, the last season, is that Sutter will try to cram as many guest stars as possible into each episode. Stop. Seriously. Stop. On one hand you have such an ocean of skill in your main cast, they can easily compensate for the less experienced cameo players. But why bother? At this point name dropping famous faces is just a distraction. I don’t want to watch Courtney Love deliver four lines of dialog, and be mildly piqued by the fact that I am looking at a former rock star....

4.8 Family Recipe To be fair, the whole thing plays out like a very macabre Curb Your Enthusiasm, I don’t think for a minute that Chucky wanted to put the severed head in it, but when someone leaves such an incriminating piece of evidence in the car park, when the police are on their way, there wasn’t really any other place for it. To find out how the head got there, we have to go back a little bit....

So this is it: the last season of Spooks. Has as it really been nearly a decade since Harry and company first appeared on our screens? And now, as they say, the end is near – but not just yet, since there are still a few old Cold War skeletons in the cupboard to cause the team members of the Grid a few headaches. During his tribunal, we see that, even though that simmering passion for Ruth is there, Harry is still the professional, and the best bad-ass on television, sparring with the committee and fully justifying his actions during last season and the whole Albany affair....

We are nearly halfway through the final series of Spooks now, and things have really hit their stride, with just the right mix of conspiracy, action and character development. Last series’ clunky climax is already being forgotten. But of course the new team are just the tip of the emotive iceberg at The Grid, as the simmering tension between Harry and Ruth continues. Actually I think I may well be finding that Ruth is now by far my favourite character....

We have, over the many series of Spooks, become familiar and even friends with the team members of the Grid. And even the new members like Dimitri and Beth have become as endearing as long standing members, Ruth and Harry. But this week, as it turned out, one of these team members will die. Slowly building through this season, we have seen Lucas move across to the dark side. Whether this was intentional, as Richard Armitage is, in case you didn’t know, going on to bigger (or is that smaller) things, being cast as the lead Dwarf in The Hobbit, or whether it was done to make the main villain this season be more human, rather than an entire country or faceless threat, I am not sure....

This review contains spoilers. We’re introduced to high-ranking Nazi officer Standartenführer Huth (Lars Eidinger) overseeing an autopsy from the shadows. His subordinate Kellerman (Rainer Bock) has “the subtlety of a pig” he complains, before stubbing out his cigarette in a specimen dish and stalking off, black cane in leather-gloved hand, promising our hero “We are going to be busy, you and I”. A case of the topf calling the kessel schwarz?...

In recent years, the horror genre has managed to penetrate into the mainstream. It seems as if every network is trying to get a piece of that blood pie. Stan Against Evil is IFC’s take on supernatural murder and mayhem. Stan Against Evil, much like its titular protagonist, has a very loud, antiquated agenda that it’s far too excited to be pushing into your face. That being said, there’s also some super original, addictive ideas....

3.21 Padawan Lost There’s some rather exciting about having a world premiere in your front room, so full marks and a gold star to Sky for giving us the first part of this year’s finale before the rest of the world (by almost two weeks, one might add). The story starts simply enough with the Jedi Plo Koon, Anakin and Ahsoka (the titular Padawan of the piece) dropping down with some Clones and other younglings on Felucia....

While this episode is the first that focuses on the female characters, it isn’t about gender. The closest thing to gender commentary – Hera and Sabine rolling their eyes at Chopper, Ezra, and Zeb’s antics – could also be an extension of the family dynamic, with younger people clashing with older people. Instead, “Out of Darkness” is about trust, and a not wholly satisfying ending makes the episode realistically open-ended....

“It’s been great, we’ve already shot an episode and having a lot of fun playing a character as slimy and methodic and strange as Indigo,” admitted Vandervoort. Indigo is described in press materials as “a living, strong-willed supercomputer that was sentenced to Fort Rozz after turning against the people of Krypton. Now on Earth, Indigo will let nothing stand in her way.” Vandervoort is known for having previously played Supergirl on the WB hit series, Smallville, which lasted for ten seasons, but she assures fans that there won’t be much confusion about appearing opposite Melissa Benoist’s version of the superhero....

Supernatural Season 13 Episode 9 It’s the mid-season finale, and Supernatural did not hold anything back. This was a great way to go into a long break—with fans wanting more. Not only did we finally reunite Jack and the Winchesters, but the episode simply had beautiful cinematography. There was a lot of care put into the visuals of this episode, so I’m going to share what I noticed. How do you keep a fresh visual style in a long running show?...

Like the heads on a hydra, those scar-faced foreign villains keep coming back as fast as Bryan can snap their necks or shoot their wild-eyed faces, so that the cycle of kidnapping, retrieval and death goes on and on, seemingly without end. This time, however, the action takes place not in some picturesque city in Europe, as we saw in Taken (Paris) and Taken 2 (Istanbul), but Bryan’s own back yard: Los Angeles....

You have to feel bad for Scott McCall. First of all, he’s got a terrible haircut. Second of all, since he’s a werewolf and all, he feels like everyone he loves is constantly in jeopardy of their lives around him. Plus, he keeps having horrible nightmares/fantasies about attacking people, only to wake up the next day and realize that people have been mauled in a manner very similar to the dream in question....

Wolf’s Bane The two central mysteries of Teen Wolf, the identity of the Alpha and Jackson’s pursuit of just how Scott has developed mad lacrosse playing skills in a few short weeks after being terrible at the sport, are rapidly drawing to a close. The pieces are falling into place, and this week’s episode solves both mysteries while introducing a new one. Jackson finally puts together just what Scott is this week, and he wants a piece of it....

Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep starts by making some obtuse references about the nature of evil, nightmares and how they’re real to those that experience them. She goes to a warehouse, where she’s about to break in when she sees a coyote. It distracts her long enough that she doesn’t see someone approach from behind; she’s shot with a Taser and disabled. She wakes in hospital where she’s undergoing treatment for her sleep disorder, with a strange woman in the adjacent bed and a curiously efficient woman doctor helping her cope....

After watching Adam Raised A Cain this show is wearing the serious but resolute look of a show that’s nearly done, even if there’s a chance that it isn’t. Instead of the trademark slow burn, the penultimate second season story is delivered with a full head of steam, the brakes off and deadman’s curve up ahead. This is the first direct connection they’ve had to Weaver, and John recognises her from Doctor Sherman’s office....