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The Terror Episode 8 It’s starting to feel like The Terror is getting a bit long in the tooth, especially as the story winds down to the moment we’ve all been waiting for — a final fall into madness foretold by scientists and historians who can’t say for sure what happened to the men of John Franklin’s expedition. Either way, I’d like the show to get there just a little bit faster because the first 30 minutes of “Terror Camp Clear” are a complete slog....

4.20 The Originals We’ve all been nervously awaiting the appearance of this backdoor pilot episode for The Originals aka The Adventures of Klaus the Lonely Snowflake, and here it is. Taking a moment away from the tedious and troubling goings on back in Mystic Falls, we spend an hour in New Orleans with Klaus and Elijah (with Rebekah to join them soon), and it was pretty darn good. The Originals borrowed a few problems from its parent show but, by and large, this was a darker, more adult take on the world the exec producer Julie Plec and co....

5.6 Handle With Care Katherine has her own stuff to deal with, after basically being murdered last week while our heroes looked on. She’s no longer the cure, given that Silas drained her of all that blood, but she is slowly decomposing now that she’s a dead human – is this where Vampire Diaries delves into zombies? I sure hope so and, with Katherine blackmailing Dr. Maxfield into helping her figure out why her hair’s turning grey and her teeth are falling out, I guess we’ll find out what kind of mixed-up creature Katherine has become pretty soon....

6.15 Let Her Go A lot of this, and the success of this especially, comes down to the choice of Caroline to lead the series. Since day one she’s been the heart of the show, but mostly in the background, picking up the lead characters when they were down or being fought over by two equally unsuitable guys. Now, she is the one at the centre of the drama, the heartbreak and the A-plot, and her friends are the ones playing back-up....

5.12 Remember Rick and his survivors on The Walking Dead are a bunch of feral animals, and Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh) is the woman attempting to re-domesticate that pack of cats. Some food, a roof over their heads, soap and a hot shower, clean clothes, a toilet that isn’t a hole in the ground… it’s a much-needed respite from life on the road, but will it be enough? On the surface, everything looks great, but it’s what’s going on inside the heads of our characters that just might screw up the whole deal....

6.3 Thank You The show has been improving since that second season. The action quotient has been increased in spite of budgetary limitations. The writing has become drastically better, opting to show much more than it tells. The direction has remained good to great, thanks in no small part to upgrading certain folk such as Gregory Nicotero to rotation status. Even the actors have gotten better, partially due to adding good character actors into the mix and the general improvement of familiar faces like Andrew Lincoln and Melissa McBride....

It takes a real numb nuts to plonk the programme on Friday without telling anyone. I didn’t know and was out (yes, BBC, Torchwood viewers go out on Fridays too); iPlayer wasn’t working at the weekend, so I hadn’t seen it until yesterday. And what’s more, it was a really very good episode. After going to investigate some “strange energy signatures” (read as bombs; always, always read as bombs) the team get stuck under rubble and have a trip down a rather deep, dark memory lane to when they joined the famous five....

True Detective Season 2 Episode 7 True Detective season 2, episode 7, “Black Maps and Motel Rooms,” was a dense and satisfying and upheld the HBO tradition that no one is safe on their series. The true detectives on True Detective follow black maps and real estate contracts as they untangle an intensely complicated web of intrigue that led to a fairly simple crime: A 23-year old robbery and double homicide....

The latest episode of Turn begins in the spring of 1777, apparently several weeks after the last. Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell) and Anna Strong (Heather Lind) have delivered a British codebook to their Continental Army contacts and settled into their secret affair, he separated from his wife and she now a widow. Of course, Abe’s wife Mary (Meegan Warner) is actually no farther than his father’s house on the other side of Setauket, Long Island, and Anna’s husband Selah (Robert Beitzel) is alive and feeling much better with the Continentals in New Jersey....

Twin Peaks: The Return Season 3 Episode 14 This is easily the most surreal episode since Part 8: “Gotta Light?” Still, though there was lot of insane stuff I can hardly guess at the meaning of, there was also a lot of plot development and scenes of the police and the FBI finding things out and getting stuff done. It’s the sublime version of Twin Peaks I see in my mind’s eye where surrealism and police procedural coexist comfortably alongside one another....

Set in a near future dystopia, Logan Marshall Green stars as Grey Trace, a car mechanic with an inherent mistrust of the tech that has taken over the world. Most cars are now driverless, a large chunk of police work is done remotely via drones and a handful of young geniuses are developing such advanced gadgets that the human work force could become obsolete any time soon. In a terrible bit of irony, a horrible accident leaves Grey paralysed – now the highly-advanced oojamaflip invented by precocious entrepreneur Eron Keen (Harrison Gilbertson) is the only thing that can give Grey back his freedom and his life....

Considering this week’s episode title is Siege, it’s only right that there be an actual siege. In this case, when Ryan the traitor goes after Eli Cohn and his men, Anna’s follow-up tracker sends word up on high and Anna gives the FBI a chance to make up for their previous mistake and getting Marcus shot (but not killed). Of course, Ryan’s sudden swerve back to the V side not only saved Anna’s life, it also has ruined the lives of his fellow Fifth Column....

After a coming of age ceremony, it’s unclear why Ragnar insists on taking his two young sons on the voyage to Paris against Aslaug’s wishes. Interestingly, this series of events marks the first step towards manhood for Ubbe and Hvitserk but also provides a glimpse into the uncertainties of those in charge. Many times in the past Ragnar’s decisions, both personally and militarily, have been questioned, but in the end, he typically comes out on top....

Voltron Season 7 Episode 2 There’s something charming about watching Voltron let its new cast settle in. With the addition of Romelle, Krolia, and Keith’s wolf we’ve got our biggest cast of main characters yet and the series sets aside some time for them to play and set things up for the future. Is it way too early to say I’d take a bullet for Romelle? Oh my gosh, she’s great!...

Voltron Season 7 Episode 9 Let’s get this out of the way. There’s a rich history between him and Shiro I would have loved to see explored. Not just through flashbacks but a possible reunion. I don’t mean them resuming their relationship, I’m more thinking of Shiro being directly confronted with what he lost and what that says about him. Was all of this worth losing his love? It’s a fascinating question the show could have really played with....

2.1 Journey Into Night Over the last week, give or take a few days, I threw myself completely into Westworld. I knew the movie, mostly from Yul Brenner as the original Gunslinger, but I’d skipped out on what is one of the better mind-bending science fiction television programmes on TV until now. How foolish I was to ignore this show for so long. I burned through the first six episodes of the first season in a day, until my head hurt from staring at my phone and my ears were aching from headphones....

Bale’s been looking back on Terminator: Salvation in a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and sharing some of his regrets. But things were clearly going wrong even as filming continued. “I wish we could have reinvigorated [the franchise]. And unfortunately, during production, you could tell that wasn’t happening. It’s a great shame…There’s a perverse side to me, where people were telling me that, there’s no way on God’s Earth that I should take that role, and I was thinking the same thing....

Jazz drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is studying at Shaffer Conservatory, a prestigious music school in New York. He attracts the attention of conductor Terence Fletcher (J K Simmons) and is recruited as an alternate in his band. Andrew quickly discovers that Fletcher is a master manipulator, keeping his band under a reign of terror. Whiplash follows Andrew as he engages in a battle of wills with his tyrannical music teacher....

In the trailers, the character goes from joyriding as a street punk with Han to commanding the shot as a cape-donning badass. How this growth happens isn’t something that’s been explained outright, but by connecting the pieces from interviews and footage, we can try to begin to understand Qi’ra: a complicated heroine – or an equally complicated antagonist, if things go as badly for Han as they usually do. Below you’ll find a summary of everything we know so far about Solo’s billed “femme fatale” and the things that are already presenting her as someone far more complex than you’d imagine at first glance....

The film, about a TV host (played by James Franco) and his producer (Rogen) who are instructed by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, enraged the country’s government. It was, North Korea’s foreign ministry spokesman said, “an act of war.” When the story emerged in June, Seth Rogen didn’t seem particularly worried. “People don’t usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they’ve paid 12 bucks for it,” read one of his tweets....