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How wrong I was. Amongst all the announcements, previews and sneak peaks at last month’s San Diego comic-con there was one panel that stood out above the rest and which many dedicated fans queued throughout the night to be a part of. Hosted by Kevin Smith the BSG cast and crew sat down to talk about season 4.5, the final 10 episodes that will conclude the hit sci-fi series after the writers’ strike stopped production for what seems like an eternity....

BBC One’s new psychological detective drama, Luther, hit our screens tonight and the show has a few strings to its bow that make it stand out from the glut of similar genre shows out there. It can really be considered something that the good old BBC managed to persuade him to turn his back on all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for a few months and return to his British roots....

So, that’s it. After 13 weeks of insobriety, arguments, advertising and insolvency, the fourth season of Mad Men is over. And yet, after weeks of drama and flaring tempers, this episode was unexpectedly cheerful. Remember the closing reel of Wayne’s World, which provided us with three endings – a happy one, a sad one and a Scooby Doo one? Somewhere in another dimension, there’s a 13th episode of Mad Men with a sad ending (where SCDP gets hit by a meteorite, perhaps), or a denouement where Roger Sterling is revealed to be the Devil himself (which wouldn’t be too far fetched, now I think about it)....

3.10 Maveth In order to top the gleeful sight of Coulson skydiving through an alien portal at the end of last week’s episode, Maveth would have needed to be one of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s best episodes ever. I’d argue that it isn’t, and thus feels like a bit of a let down. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a bad episode, per se. Ultimately, last week’s Closure proved to set too high a bar....

3.19 Failed Experiments This was, for my money, one of the best sequences that Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. has ever produced. The combat was pleasantly brutal (it was very nice to have some actual Kree around to provide a physical challenge, even though one got his spine shattered and the other his face melted… yikes, this show is getting a lot more grown-up and graphic, isn’t it?), but the dialogue between the self-blaming Mack and the Hive-infested Daisy was the real sight to behold here....

4.3 Uprising One of the my fears going into Agents Of SHIELD season 4 was that the series would turn into the Ghost Rider variety hour (how awesome would that have been, just 1970s celebs with their heads on fire singing show tunes). The first two episodes of the season were Ghost Rider-heavy, but they kind of had to be. With the third episode, Ghost Rider, or more accurately Robbie Reyes, became a part of the show rather than being the show....

5.5 Rewind Well, this week’s episode answers those questions as Agents Of SHIELD mines its now rich history to deliver an absolutely killer episode that answers all our Fitz related questions. The episode entitled Rewind does just that as we are taken back to that fateful moment where the agents are abducted from the diner. There, we learn more about that strange bald dude that keeps spare sets of skin lying around....

And what a show! I laughed, I cried, I felt a deep and likely creepy love for Tig. The show peaked and peaked and peaked. And then, to be frank, it crapped out. Collapsing into itself, not so much like a dying star, but exploding under the weight of its own self-importance. As a twice disappointed Sutter fan, I was not sure my heart could take the strain of a third let down....

People start to become ill and then die from the unsanitary nature of having magical creatures mixed with drinking water. They then jump to the obvious conclusion: Gwen is a witch and they better burn her! Seeing Gwen thrown in jail made me chuckle. Just the idea of her ultimately marrying Arthur and them having a conversation about the ‘good old days’, when ‘your father nearly had me burned as a witch’....

4.8 Lamia Well, here’s what happened. John heads out to investigate a scream in Longstead village, torch in hand. It doesn’t strike him as odd that he’s the only person who has responded to the cry for help and this can only be a bad thing. He discovers a terrified villager and is sure he sees something stalking the perimeter of the village. John’s wife, Mary (Melanie Hill), heads over to visit Gwen....

5.6 The Dark Tower Of course, this momentary break from Camelot gives Morgana the perfect opportunity to return and kidnap the Queen, whilst her magical snakes leave Percival and Leon poisoned by dark magic. Furious that Gwen has been kidnapped, Arthur sets out to rescue her, with Merlin and the knights at his side (including the recently recovered Percival and Leon who return to active duty with nary a thought for the dark magic-induced illness that Gaius has diagnosed)....

Based on author Kyril Bonfiglioli’s series of cult novels, Depp plays Charlie Mortdecai, an cartoonish upper crust art dealer-slash-conman, with a mansion in Oxford and staring bankruptcy down the barrel. When a rare Goya painting is stolen, old acquaintance and MI5 agent Alistair Martland (Ewan McGregor) throws Mortdecai a bone – retrieve the painting and he’ll clear his tax debt. What follows is a half Bond, half Pink Panther globe trotting romp, featuring Russian mobsters, Nazi gold and unfunny jokes about moustaches....

USA’s humble hit cyberdrama Mr. Robot has already delved into some supremely strange sophomore season territory, notably the surprising midseason reveal of Elliot’s delusion-dressed institutional setting. However, as Season 2 readies a (hopefully satisfying) revelatory climax with the first part of finale “Python,” it’s clear that the show is not quite done unveiling its insanely oblique, symbolism-strewn bag of tricks with the odd scenes involving Angela’s captivity. While these scenes were quite perplexing, writer/producer Kor Adana provides an interesting explanation....

­ Eclectic is the word most used to describe Tarantino’s soundtracks, which hop around his record collection like an excited teenager who just snuck into his parent’s bedroom. Django is no exception, but marks the largest amount of original music in any of his films to date. Just how big a deal is that? His debut film introduced us to K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies, a fictional radio station that gave him the excuse to use his own CDs throughout the film....

Mythbusters is a kind of surreal amalgam of Top Gear and Robot Wars. It’s presented mostly by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, two guys who are a cross between magicians Penn & Teller and the comic-shop owner out of The Simpsons. They’re in better physical shape, but they both sport similar beard and moustache arrangements. Hyneman and Savage have an excuse, because Discovery are paying them, and we’re watching, and possibly also because they’re American....

Artwork by: Nate Bellegarde This new comic book from Image Comics is about four scientists, Simon Grimshaw, Thomas Walker, Emerson Strange and Dade Ellis, who are now in the public spotlight with their scientific alliance named World Corp. It is written by newcomer Eric Stephenson and drawn by Nate Bellegarde (he will also be doing Glory #31 in December). The book starts out with a brief preface of the four scientists talking about what they’re going to say at a press conference and how they are going to act in front of the cameras now that they are the rock stars of the science world....

It was made slightly strange by the fact that the “young sisters” all looked to be past child-bearing years. Look, Elizabeth Mitchell is beautiful, but wouldn’t it have been better to futz with the timeline rather than try to dress up mutton as lamb? That sounds hater-ish of me. I don’t mean it to. But when something majorly shoulder-bumps me out of story the way this did, I figure it’s worth mentioning....

Outcast Episode 1 Forget everything you think you know about demonic possession and the time honored methods of casting out Satan from a victim who’s often in the wrong place at the wrong time, because the pilot episode of Robert Kirkman’s (The Walking Dead) new Cinemax series Outcast will spin your head around faster than Linda Blair in William Peter Blatty’s heretofore quintessential exorcism tale. Based on the Skybound/Image comic title by Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta, the series takes us inside the town of Rome, West Virginia to watch its residents battle an evil that many have apparently come to accept as a routine part of life....

With Patriots Day, that was in post-production even as Berg was promoting Deepwater Horizon, he’s brought the same approach to the story of the hunt for the Boston marathon bombers back in 2013. The documentary-esque feel and approach Berg takes – this time working from a screenplay credited to him, Matt Cook and Joshua Zetumer – remains the same, but the structure is different. The primary focus is on the hunt for the bombers, an investigation that has Mark Wahlberg’s Sergeant Tommy Saunders at the heart of it....

If the first episode of Peaky Blinders was a swaggering statement of intent, and the second episode a more introspective, character-driven piece, then this third episode is a wonderful blend of the two that continues the momentum created in those first two episodes. Large parts of last week’s episode of Peaky Blinders dealt with the matriarchal Polly, played by Helen McCrory. Here the focus here shifts slightly, with Grace, played by Annabelle Wallis, stepping into the limelight....