Amanda’s adreno addiction has been stewing for awhile now, and I’m glad they didn’t go with the cliche of having her push everyone away or self-destruct. Instead, the audience was led to believe the drug was causing her hallucinations, obscuring its true purpose, which was to provide Pottinger with the means to mine Amanda’s memories: a fabulously underhanded twist! Presumably, the E-Rep is still tasked with finding out about the Votan ship hidden in the gulanite mines, and Pottinger is gathering intel in any way he can....

Viewers will have to decide for themselves, but that’s the beauty of the ups and downs of the mixed society in this frontier town. So get on the roller coaster, put those hands up, and surrender! The truth is that Gulanee prisoners were contained on board, and the E-Rep presumably sought to use these powerful energy beings as a weapon. How they thought they could control such a creature is beyond me, but it hardly matters since the mission was a failure....

Knock, Knock is a real treat – a spooky, atmospheric tale with an emotional core and some brilliant guest performances. And in a sense it’s a real treat for this writer too, as it’s one of those Doctor Who episodes that’s so fresh and unlike anything the series has done before in its 54-year history (intentionally or otherwise) that this article is significantly shorter than usual; we hope that’s okay....

The Doctor and Bill have saved the day again and something’s knocking in the vault – but it’s only knocking three times, so it doesn’t constitute a reference. Instead, here’s our weekly list of references, callbacks, tenuous spots and generally interesting waffle from this week’s episode. You’ll have to forgive me if I’ve missed anything – I’m at my sister’s wedding as this episode goes out, and they’ve refused to turn the music off for an hour so we can watch it....

So… who needs a hug? It’s the end of term and, for all the excitement over Christmas, it’s clear we’re going to need an extra box of tissues… But that’s still months away. Right now it’s time for the final instalment in this series of viewing notes explaining away some of those back references and things that seemed a bit familiar from this week’s episode. And then there’s the commenters....

6.10 The Girl Who Waited But it has a damn good go, and comes a fair bit closer than you might have expected. For this, again, was an excellent story in a show that continues to be inventive, surprising, and quite brilliant. In an episode that by turns felt like it was evoking The Mind Robber, a bit of Paradise Towers, The Beast Below, and a small dab of Turn Left (with a nod to 70s telly, too), the Tardis lands in a seemingly empty world (I’m not going to try and spell its name), opposite a door with two buttons alongside it....

But what momentum they’d created previously was unceremoniously sent for recycling in this complete klunker of a story. What I loved last week was the edgy nature, TRON-cycle direction changes, and big arc story development. Well that was then, and this week Dollhouse had an almost complete relapse into a mostly incomprehensible mess. The slight twist to this is Echo, who isn’t part of the detail. She’s with the guy we first saw her in the show with, playing ‘girlfriend’....

The T-shirts, then… When a crew finishes on a film, they design and make their own T-Shirts. I remember that on the set of Titanic, the crew apparently had different T-shirts every week, depending on how things were going. That was during the massive overruns I think. I never heard that! Oh my god. So were the crew coming out with ASCII versions of ‘I survived a Don Hall film’ or something?...

Dragon Ball Super Episode 22 “Be ready to pay for everything you did on Namek!” Ginyu and his misfit team came from a time when Dragon Ball hadn’t run crazy with lengthy stretches of filler or painfully long battles that tested the patience of its audience. Accordingly, bringing Ginyu back into the fold is a very exciting move that’s a definite deep cut meant for hardcore fans of the series (this frog was last seen hundreds of episodes ago)....

Dragon Ball Super Episode 7 So in an episode that’s devoted to Earth’s strongest warriors trying to hold their own against Beerus and bide the God of Destruction’s time in order to keep their planet safe, it’s Bulma of all people that ends up making an impression on the deity. After the rudeness that Buu inflicted on Beerus at the end of last week’s episode, this installment begins in a terse place as all bets are suddenly off....

This week’s episode opens with a terrifying home invasion and graphic double murder. A slender, silent, masked figure has tied up two individuals, binding pillows to their faces with belts as blindfolds, before calmly killing them both. While Elementary isn’t a show that relies on violence, from time to time they will give the viewer a glimpse of particularly violent or disturbing crimes without lingering on them. In this case, the little we see, combined with the general horror one feels at the thought of a home invasion, is more than enough....

Hell, two episodes in and Empire has already secured a second season. Setting a late-night soap opera in the world of the hip-hop industry is ingenious. What other industry embraces the luxury, drama, and loyalty that’s so embedded in hip-hop culture? The pair fit together like peanut butter and jelly or Snoop and Nate Dogg. In tonight’s episode, they have their most impassioned conversation yet. Terrance Howard does a fantastic job showing the conflict between Lucious wanting to embrace his son but not knowing how to understand his sexuality, while Jussie Smollett continues to give Jamal the thick skin and calm temper of a young man who’s been abused his whole life....

I remember being on a family road trip on our way to California. We’d stopped for a few hours in Reno, and as was my habit at the time I picked up a local newspaper and flipped it open immediately to the movie ads. My heart began beating erratically as my eyes darted from ad to ad and I came to realize in an instant that I absolutely HAD to see every single movie playing in Reno at the time....

3.9 Journey To Xilbalba The Charleston Mole, whom we all know is Lourdes after events of episodes past, has been quite busy in her efforts to destroy the human resistance for reasons unknown. She’s planted more bombs, has somehow managed to destroy the underground mall structure that Charleston retreats to when beamers and mechs come marching in for battle, and she’s even managed to destroy the Volm weapons factory and most of the Volm not named Cochise in the process....

From the familiar warm tingles of John Williams’ theme, to a wonderfully cinematic filling in of backstory through magical newspapers, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s opening isn’t shy about its Harry Potter roots. Nor should it be. Bringing back together director David Yates (who helmed the final four Potter films), producer David Heyman and author J K Rowling – this time as a debut screenwriter – it’s a tantalising reunion, a platform for a quintet of films set some 70 years before the Harry Potter stories we already know....

1.6 The Good Man One of the crucial points in the way the military operates, both in this universe and in the real world, is their primary duty is to protect themselves. After all, you can’t establish command and control of a situation without a show of force, and the best way to perpetuate that force is to not die at the hands of some blood-drooling cannibal corpse. You can’t protect others when you can’t protect yourself, and when you have outside actors bringing 2000 hungry zombies to the gates, there’s going to be a struggle to even survive, let alone evacuate any of the innocent people thrown in various holding cells in the gym....

Fear The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 7 “Shiva” was pretty tame, as far as mid-season finales go, especially when it comes to The Walking Dead universe. I’m not saying there has to be a lot of bloodshed or action to keep viewers riveted, but it doesn’t exactly hurt either. And while there were lots of zombies onscreen, they interacted very little with the living. This is a conscious choice by Fear The Walking Dead’s creators, of course, especially given the more philosophical attitude this series has in general toward the undead....

2.9 Los Muertos To their credit, Fear The Walking Dead doesn’t delay the reveal as long as they did with the Abigail compound. No, Nick wakes up in the clinic, walks outside, and finds the town empty. From an overpass, he watches as one of the town’s people climbs onto a bus crashed through a fence, hops out the back of the bus, and offers himself up as food for zombies....

Fear The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 14 There’s a lot to like about the Lou Diamond Phillips-directed “MM 54.” We finally learn more about Tonya Pinkins’s Filthy Woman, who is a former English teacher named Martha. We also learn more about what makes truckers Sarah and Wendell tick. We also bid farewell to a character whose death was arguably long overdue. More importantly, perhaps, is we get to see Morgan truly assume a leadership role, for better or worse....