3.9 Crazy For a penultimate episode, Crazy just didn’t feel all that different to anything else this season. Caleb and Chick had some tension, Dylan and Emma were cute, Norman imagined his mother telling him to do things and Norma and Romero argued over that damn flash drive while Bob Paris acted vaguely threatening. By the end of this episode, none of those various strands really feel like they’re building to a climax....
This review contains spoilers. This week’s Being Human is about delusions. At heart, each of our characters has created a persona of who they believe themselves to be, but very rarely does that identity mesh with reality. This is most obvious in Sally, who spends most of the episode in a ghost coma after the events of last week. Her delusions are so far-reaching that she has created an entire world for herself in her head in which she is living in a bright and beautifully decorated version of the house not with Josh and Aidan, but with the Reaper, otherwise known as Scott....
The result has been that Annie’s story has been shown for what it is: nowhere near as interesting as George or Mitchell’s. The problem has been that now nobody can see Annie again, there is no way she can become human and little reason for her to really try. It’s different for the others. They can get a normal job, have normal relationships, and live a relatively normal life. Their decisions throughout this series have centred upon how much they truly want to be human and how they, and those around them, can deal with what lies beneath the human exterior....
5.5 No Care, All Responsibility We start with a flashback to Rook fifteen years ago, as he saves a young girl from a vampire nest. His words, “no care, all responsibility” ring out across the episode, as people do what they feel they have to in order to achieve what they perceive to be the greater good. Rook sends Natasha, all grown up, to manipulate Hal and Tom, but we don’t find out her true allegiances until part-way through the episode....
2.7 Inflatable Actually, quite a bit. As fun as it was, Jimmy’s spectacular tanking of his job at HHM ultimately amounts to him spitting in the face of a decent man who took a chance on him. It results in Omar turning down his offer for a drink to go home to his family while Jimmy returns to his cramped room in the nail salon. And finally and most painfully, it results in the realisation that his relationship with Kim is doomed....
Black Sails Season 3 Episode 5 Sometimes the waiting is all there is. Blackbeard, of course, could not have been a part of the beginning of Black Sails. Beside him, even the power and attitude of Charles Vane becomes almost childlike. In many ways, Vane is the heart of this series’ whole story. He is the rebel, in all things, and it is the spirit of rebellion that drove history’s pirates....
If you’ve watched any of DC Comics’ forays into television, chances are you’ve heard and enjoyed the musical stylings of Blake Neely, one of the most prolific composers in TV and film. Whether it’s the iconic theme song for veteran shows such as Arrow and The Flash or the larger soundtrack of newer shows like Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow, it takes a certain flair to evoke a superhero’s larger-than-life persona....
2.1 21The last time we were in Nucky Thompson’s Atlantic City we heard newly elected president Warren G. Harding promise a “return to normalcy”. As the new season begins, we could be forgiven for thinking that his words have prevailed. This cannot last. Too right it can’t. Within minutes, we’re in the middle of what passes for a drive-by shooting in the twenties, a flatbed truck with a crew of KKK and a machine gun....
As this series of Bored To Death draws to a close, we’re treated to the first in a two part finale. Don’t cry that it’s almost over, though, There are still plenty of laughs before the end. After finding a list of lesbian couples in their abandoned flat, it turns out that the couple have been selling Ray’s sperm to other couples. After visiting thirty couples, it turns out that only one of them was pregnant, and upon seeing Ray, who was not the average build vegan possessing a PHD in mathematics, he was promptly told that they didn’t want to see him ever again....
Brazilian Star Wars is very similar to Turkish Star Wars, the most famous of the foreign Lucas rip-offs, in that it’s extremely low budget, poorly paced, and so strange in some parts it makes you uncomfortable. However, Brazilian Star Wars, released in 1978 under the official title Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas (“The Tramps in the Planet War”), predates its middle eastern cousin by five years and is more of a spoof than a straightforward intergalactic adventure....
4.9 Bug Bug, more than most episodes of Breaking Bad, was very reminiscent of The Sopranos in some of its more intense moments – the first noticeable one came in Jesse’s slo-mo reaction shot to a fellow lackey of Gus’ having his brains shot out a few feet away from him, which was very similar to a scene in a later Sopranos ep, where Silvio carries on talking for a few seconds after blood has just sprayed him in the face....
The script for this week’s episode of Campus must have had a post-it marked “character growth” stuck to the front. By the end of Hurricane George, Matt’s sleaziness turned out to be nothing more than a mask disguising his soft, gooey middle, while Lydia’s adamantine-coated, shit-off attitude to the rest of the human race had cracked enough for her to socialise. Granted, her birthday drinks were more like a heavily guarded prison outing than a social event, but this was verging on worryingly normal behaviour....
In Pursuit of Flight opens on the tag-team of Captain Marvel and Captain America battling a dimwitted foe who wants to steal moon rocks “for moon powers!” Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick pits a smartass Captain Marvel against such foes, as well as matters of the heart like her loss of the original Captain Marvel, Kree warrior Mar-Vell. The humor is probably what I love best about Captain Marvel. She even has a friend, Monica Rambeau (another former Captain Marvel), a welcome guest star in Volume 2 of her adventures....
7.11 Castle, P.I. & 7.12 Private Eye Caramba! From the beginning, one of the more outrageous aspects of the series is the idea that, in the lawsuit-happy world of law enforcement and public safety, a writer would be given not just permission to do a long-term ride-along with the NYPD, but access to LEO databases, crime scene reports, personal information on private citizens—basically all the tools that allow what former NY mayor Bloomberg once called the “seventh biggest army in the world” to do its job....
I do remember watching the original Cats & Dogs film, many moons ago. It was the sort of film you would have filed with Ace Ventura: it picked up decent to good box office takings, but it would probably have a few critical tut tuts in the wings, and not really be in the running for Baftas and Oscars. Luckily, none of those sorts of criticisms will stop you (or your kids, if you have them) going along and having a good time with this solid sequel....
Den of Geek: Mike mentioned mothers who have trouble forming attachments to their children, seemingly implying something about Marla who sent him away, but the flashbacks show a caring mother after the broken finger incident. Yet Marla tells Francis she barely knew him. What gives? Nick: Consciously or not, Mike is being slightly manipulative here. (Remember, he’s a psychologist.) He mentions mothers who don’t form bonds with their children that because he wants Marla to instinctively think, That’s not what kind of mother I am....
The writers seem aware of this and each time it becomes too much they’ve thrown a really weird story into the mix, distracting us briefly. But the story this week entirely altered Chuck at a DNA level and, hopefully, for the better. Except Cole Baker is a super-spy and manages to escape their clutches, we’re led to believe. All these threats are playing havoc with Chuck’s relationships, as this means he’ll have to cohabit with Sarah so he can be protected 24/7....
4.11 Chuck Versus The Balcony Very often on Chuck they have a special guest star who is allowed to ham it up or be exceptionally silly, but this week’s star doesn’t even act. That’s because the unaccredited supporting role in Chuck Versus The Balcony goes to Greenacres, an elegant property built in the twenties by silent star Harold Lloyd. If it seems vaguely familiar, it’s the same place that Ah-nuld assaulted in Commando, and a zillion other productions....
4.12 Chuck Versus The Gobbler Very early on this story impressed me with some of the character dialogue and interaction, a major notch up from some of the low points we’ve seen so far this season. Well scripted characters make the whole thing much more interesting, and it certainly made Timothy Dalton seem less hammy than his previous outings on the show. But some of the Morgan pieces were also excellent, like he’s running an inner monologue on events, without realising he’s speaking it out loud....
