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Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 4 “Nobody knows a damn thing about this world. Not us or anyone else…” The Scouts find themselves facing a major PR dilemma as the government and the Military Police’s efforts to disgrace them work all too well. Not only have there been massive trust issues in the past with the Scouts in relation to the secret Titans in hiding, but now the public has been deceived to think that they can’t trust the Scouts at all....

Like everyone else, I steered well clear this year. I also skipped the Regular Joe Big Brother last year, as what was once a carefully produced programme became the vicious, cartoon stereotype that it has always been accused of being. But I used to be an avid fan of the programme, watching the 10pm main show and goth detective-fronted spin-off talk show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth, alike. I have an odd memory for tasks over the years....

3.8 All The Wisdom I Got Left All The Wisdom I Got Left was devoted primarily to Hood’s pursuit of Chayton through the swamps and streets of Louisiana. This material didn’t disappoint, but even the home front stuff was pretty damn compelling this week. First and foremost, the rift between Proctor and Rebecca seems to have reached the point of no return, as Rebecca’s reckless decisions lead to her uncle’s kidnapping....

3.4 Unbreak-Able The moment that struck me was when Dylan, hurrying out of the house, turns to be faced with his brother, a jump scare that actually jolted me out of my seat. Norman has become legitimately terrifying, rather than just mildly creepy, and Freddie Highmore is selling the hell out of it. I had no idea what he was going to do upon seeing Caleb (considering the last time the two characters met almost ended in homicide) and even Dylan seemed scared of his brother at the end....

In addition to McCreary’s work in genre television, he has also provided the music for video games like Dark Void and the Defiance MMO, and films like The Europa Report and the freshly released dose of metal and LARPing mayhem that is Knights of Badassdom (which is currently available to watch on various digital and on-demand services right now!). Den of Geek: Talk to me about how you got involved with Knights of Badassdom and also your working relationship with director Joe Lynch....

5.3 Pie and Prejudice It’s one of those Being Human episodes that has the individual cast members spend time with their own species, with Hal introducing Alex to a ghost friend he’s been visiting for over two centuries, and Tom meeting a fellow werewolf at work. Tom’s storylines have always been about his insecurities and the people that prey on them, and this time it’s no different. Larry (played by The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt) sees Tom’s innocence and eagerness to succeed coming a mile off, and takes the opportunity with both hands....

Avatar successfully made the case for 3D, like the gift of fire from James Cameron to studio arsonists who post-converted every tentpole movie in sight, while Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films were less successful in pioneering higher frame rates, inadvertently exposing the actors’ make-up and making the audience dizzy. Most of the negative reviews of Lee’s latest have focused on the 3D, 4K, 120 frames per second (much higher than The Hobbit‘s 48fps) presentation of the film, which has had limited distribution....

Black Lightning Season 1, Episode 5 You can tell a lot about a show from a mediocre episode. “And Then the Devil Brought the Plague” was a mediocre episode of Black Lightning. While it teased some information we need to better understand the superhero mythology of this world, it was too uneven in its tonally disparate plots to be truly great. Still, if this is going to be what a medicore episode of Black Lightning looks like, then this show is something special....

It doesn’t help that he’s wildly, famously inconsistent: since the excellent early to mid 90s run that included Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite, even the most fervent fan would be hard pushed to argue that his recent filmography has been defined by a long periods of mediocrity. It seems that, like the oft-repeated maxim about Star Trek movies, every Allen film that hints at a long-awaited return to form (Match Point, Vicky Christina Barcelona) is inevitably followed by a poorly-received, momentum-killing dud (Scoop, Whatever Works)....

4.4 All In He’s not the only one so mistaken. So many of the characters are buttoned-down in some way that it’s tempting to believe that there was something in the water in the 1920s. There’s a spectrum of personalities here, with Al Capone at one end and George Mueller at the other. Were it a see-saw, Mueller’s end would be nearest the ground. Eddie, Richard and Rothstein all share it....

4.6 The North Star Even then, her last, brief return in Margate Sands felt stolen, like mere aftershocks of the trauma that she’d been through in that eventful year. We shared her moment in the abortion clinic, as she readied the removal of the baby that she had conceived with Owen Sleater, and then her brief, dismissive goodbye with Nucky, himself still grieving for Billie. They were painful insights into her fragile and troubled state....

5.6 Buyout Let’s talk about the Walter White legacy. In many ways this is what the story of Breaking Bad is: the final legacy of Walter White, his parting gift to a world that misunderstood him. He’s known he’s been done for from the very beginning, just as much as he knows and has known that his life pre-meth trade was largely a boring slog characterized by monotony and failure, and that that, as things stand, is how he’s going to be remembered....

For me, Broadchurch’s compassion was its early draw. Unlike the majority of TV murders, the killing of Danny Latimer didn’t just have a motive (whatever that turns out to be), but also consequences. The worst happened, and the people affected crumpled like cloth. The cheery small-town setting too, was a novel backdrop for the story. Broadchurch’s drama played out in kitchens and sunny tourist spots, not menacing urban streets or rain-lashed crime scenes....

This review contains spoilers. Rewind two years and the atmosphere surrounding the new series of Broadchurch was one of gentle hysteria. Preview access was fiercely guarded and press releases were accompanied by secrecy oaths sworn in blood. The success of the first run and the anticipation for its sequel were so great that it felt less like series two was airing than making an official state visit. No show can bear the weight of that much expectation....

Burned spy Michael Westen’s new G-man surveillance is proving increasingly troublesome. Essentially there to gently persuade Mike to let go of his old life, he’s been busy setting up Fi thanks to a little arms dealing she’s been doing on the side, ratting out Big Sam to his sugar mama, and generally threatening everyone Mike knows – which wouldn’t be so bad, it’s just that he’s incredibly smug. Priority one for Mike becomes getting rid of Agent Bly, but in order to do that, he needs serious cash....

It all starts when Hank and Charlie hop on Atticus’ private plane to work on the rock opera. Atticus is a bigger procrastinator than Hank when it comes to writing and the rocker comes off as more of a problem than a solution to anyone’s problems. Charlie is looking to Atticus to save his spiraling career and Hank could use the cash since he isn’t writing anything else. Hank is generally regarded as the most immature character in the series, but he has some competition from Atticus....

And so it ends. With a hey and a ho and a hey nonny no (well, more of a Bangles cover, to be fair), Campus has left the building. It signed things off in the manner of a school disco. There was a fair bit of awkward dancing, a couple consummating a term’s worth of sexual tension, some rousing eighties tunes, and an unplanned pregnancy. A few weeks had passed at Kirke since the previous instalment, time which Imogen spent breaking up with the ever-persistent Flatpack on a daily basis....

Castle Rock Episode 7 Seven episodes in, Castle Rock is the best “adaptation” of Stephen King’s work ever put on the small screen (and it’s much better than most of the movies, too). But even that is selling this show short. Castle Rock has proved itself to be more than just one big easter egg and reference guide to the King universe. This series is more earnest than that, and it’s to the credit of showrunners Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason and all of the writers and directors that Castle Rock transcends the traditional adaptation....

8.3 PhDead When people talk about the Moonlighting Curse, they usually focus on the idea that the writers of whatever show seem unable to conceive of a romantic relationship that’s interesting to watch without the constant tension of “will they or won’t they?” “Is it possible,” they ask incredulously, “that television writers have never been a part of a healthy, happy, and yes, interesting couple?” But while the near-misses and impossibly-timed collisions with exes/mobsters/aliens are frustrating and confounding, to me, they are not the worst part of the curse....

Alan Bleasdale’s acclaimed Boys From The Blackstuff had depicted the sheer anger inherent in the poorer areas of Britain for whom the lack of work and prospects was a grim daily reality . For its part, Auf Wiedersehen Pet!‘s opening titles depicted Job Centres and for an ironic twist the famous Saatchi “Labour isn’t working” poster. While Boys From the Blackstuff moved the viewer with the pathos of those put on the scrap heap, Auf Wiedersehen Pet!...