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Last night’s closing segment to Monday Night Raw was actually quite strong. Paul Heyman made the WWE Universal Title feel prestigious and meaningful, and he made Brock Lesnar feel like a star. It feels like all of those things are true. In fact, I don’t think Brock particularly likes wrestling, but this is a means for him to make a lot of money, so he does it. If he really loved it, he’d be working house shows and traveling every weekend, just as Roman Reigns points about....

What’s kept Dexter free all these years is his lack of emotional connection, a virtue Miguel doesn’t have. If Dexter looks increasingly nervous here, it’s with some justification. Miguel might share his interest, but he doesn’t have the same survival instincts or self control. The other key storyline that’s reaching a climax is the skinner case. They’ve already interviewed the man, a tree trimmer. They need to find him, and get him to give up the location of Anton before he dies of the skinning injuries that have already been caused to him....

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 2 Episode 8 With two episodes remaining in the season, this week’s episode of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency revealed a surprising number of answers to a few of the core mysteries while providing viewers with a swashbuckling adventure and a heartfelt reconciliation for the Brotzmans. And while not exactly on the level of Gordon Rimmer’s cathartic “What is going on?” speech last season, Dirk’s explanation of the interconnectedness of all things (or at least most things), including the Cardenas deaths and the creation of Wendimoor, was extremely satisfying....

10.4 Knock Knock “Do you like Little Mix?” There’s a bit towards the end of the Sylvester McCoy Doctor Who story, The Curse Of Fenric, that always moves me. I don’t want to spoil the exact nature of it, not least because it’s a moment that hits you all the harder if you don’t see it coming. Just that it involves Ace, played by Sophie Aldred, and it really adds something special and incredibly human to the story....

Let’s do this the wrong way round, because if you’re anything like us, the part of Cold Blood that you’ll be wanting to talk about all happened in the last five or ten minutes. It’s a good job we did, too. As the Doctor reached into the crack, we couldn’t help thinking we were on the verge of a Utopia moment, where an episode was about to be turned on its head by something happening in its final moments....

6.4 The Doctor’s Wife Before I get going too much, I’ll concede this. There are people out there who may have found the premise here a bit daft, and the emotional side of the episode not to their tastes. I, though, am not one of those people. I’m one of those who will sit in a pub and bore you to tears about just how special The Doctor’s Wife was....

9.2 The Witch’s Familiar When it comes to the Doctor’s key foes that aren’t a) people in silver suits or b) killers with egg whisks attached, the best scenes have generally boiled down to two characters having a chat. The genial sequences between Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado in the old days, for instance. Or the prolonged chinwag between Davros and The Doctor we get in The Witch’s Familiar. Heck, it’s why I’ve got a soft spot for 2005’s Boom Town....

The premise of Dollhouse is defined by Fox so: The Dollhouse is a very secret, and very illegal, place where wishes come true. Clients with the right connections and enough money can hire “Actives”, people who have been programmed to perfectly fulfill the needs, and desires of their clients. The Actives are people who have chosen, for their own reasons, to surrender their bodies… If you’re thinking Joe 90, then you’re not actually too far from the truth, although they passed on having tape based computers and the coolest flying car you’ve ever seen....

Yet, right at the start of the story, I got a horrible seventies TV flashback, where Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman, must become a musical performer to infiltrate a narcotics ring, or something as painfully concocted. Because in the first five minutes that’s exactly the type of plot we’re given, and I almost switched off then. Even brushing over how it seems implausible that a memory implant could make you sing well, this didn’t sell well, and I was very concerned that Dollhouse was about to entirely tank in front of me....

MAAAATHHHHEWWWWWW!!!!!!!! MAAAATTTHHHEEWWW!!!! Shall I care about the rest of the episode? Am I able to live through the trauma that was this finale of Season 3? I can’t type it. Edith and her editor meet up in Scotland and everyone is all, “what a coincidence…not.” Along the way, she decides to become his mistress. Well, when you’re Edith, I suppose adultery is better than nothing…except oh wait. It’s adultery. Ugh....

With Dragon Ball Super nicely settling into its next big battle, any initial complaints with “Start of Vengeance” are going to come from the group of people who have seen the Resurrection ‘F’ feature film. Granted, the action has only started here in Dragon Ball Super, but it should already be pretty clear that the movie equivalent of this battle had a lot more work put into it. It’s understandable that the animation for a feature film would be of a considerably higher quality than a television show with a much quicker turnaround, but even the choreography of this battle feels lazy and uninteresting at times....

And the early word? That the good work of Casino Royale continues. The review suggests that “The raw nature of the film may put off some who yearn for the days of gizmos, gadgets and Bond quips as he dispenses with faceless opponents”, but concludes by saying that when the credits promise a further Bond adventure, “the sense of anticipation … should be particularly high”. In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw preferred its predecessor, Casino Royale, but still had praise for the new film....

What Fletcher thus does, in conjunction with screenwriters Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton, is take the Eddie The Eagle story lighter. On the surface, this is a riskier approach than it may first appear. Edwards, after all, was seen at first as a figure of fun in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, where he represented Britain in ski-jumping. Releasing the non-Brit winning novelty single Fly Eddie Fly soon after his return demonstrated the man’s willingness to engage with that fun, too....

My love of T-shirts aside, let us return to the matter at hand: Missing Joan Watson. While the baggy clothing and honey-tinged tones of Lucy Liu are always going to be missed when they are absent, her sex-cation to Denmark was well-timed. 5 episodes in and with Joan surely making countless jokes related to Shakespeare’s Hamlet while rumbling in the sack with her new boy-toy, we finally get a taste of what exactly Kitty has to offer as a partner to the incomparable Mr....

3.12 The One That Got Away If those ‘previously on’ scenes alone didn’t have you leaning forward and gripping your seat cushion in giddy anticipation, then fair warning that this may not be the review for you. I’m about to gush. The heroin! The nutmeg! London flashbacks! Finally! The opening minutes of The One That Got Away were catnip to Elementary fans, as if we weren’t already looking forward to the conclusion of last week’s Kitty-centric story....

With their new show, Eternal Law, Pharoah and Graham don’t have the legacy of Life On Mars to directly follow, and while quieter, it allows them to get their new production off to a steadier start. It’s not bereft of elements of their earlier work, with a case of the week sat in the middle of, in this instance, fantasy elements. But the tone and feel is a lot gentler, even if the case itself isn’t....

However, the rush to complete the movie in time for its release date gave Anderson just four weeks to put a cut together. When that rough assemblage – running to 130 minutes in total – failed to win over test audiences, the film was quickly hacked down and the version released in cinemas ran to just 95 minutes. That means there’s at least another 35 minutes of footage out there that could be put back into a cut closer to the one Anderson intended....

This, in turns, leads to Tom and President Hathaway setting up a face-to-face meet. Um, anyone else smell trap? Or at the very least, that all is not what it seems? Whatever…Tom apparently doesn’t. He agrees to the meet, and also, brings Cochise along to convince the President the value of the Volm. MISTAKE! Whatever. Science is loosely applied throughout this entire show, why should I be surprised? There also seems to be some indication that the reason Doctor Kadar is such a nutbag is because he lost a child in the initial attack....

4.4 Evolve Or Die This week, they seem to be turning to a new experimental weapon. Not the space shields and atmosphere burning thing from last season, but something… make that someone much more interesting as far as weapons go: the naive, sweet, amazingly powerful Lexi Mason, daughter of Second Mass soldier and former President Tom Mason and Anne Glass, brilliant doctor turned Che Guevara (who was also a doctor)....

5.6 Respite There are only four episodes left in Falling Skies after this one. Only four episodes left, and the straining, struggling Revolutionary War parable will limp to an end in its fifth season, no doubt in a blaze of Mason-based glory and a pile of dead aliens torn to shreds by automatic weapons or some sort of improvised explosive yielded by great sacrifice to the cause. However, for a show in its final season, building up to some sort of big event, Falling Skies is in no hurry to get anywhere and in the process, it’s trying my patience....