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4.3 Exodus It’s very rare that an episode of Falling Skies shows a lot of focus towards one pivotal event. This is a show that goes well out of its way to make sure that every possible plot thread gets noted every week, and Exodus is no exception. However, it’s also a much more focused episode of television than was broadcast last week. We had check-ins with Matt and Anne and Lexi’s cult, but most of the attention was put onto the most important piece of action, the escape from the Espheni ghetto....

3.7 The Law Of Inevitability Ray Stussy was a pitiable figure in life. Somehow, he’s even more so in death. Not only has he been posthumously accused of being a domestic abuser, but the two people to whom he (could have) felt closest, his brother and his fiance, spent the aftermath of his death in a state of stunned submission. Stunned, not because of grief but because of the constraints that his death has placed on them....

4.14 MM 54 Yes, it took a few episodes, but I’ve finally come around on Fear newbies Sarah and Wendell. (Jim, though, not so much, but that’s a moot point now.) The twins’ introduction in The Code set the latter half of the season down a less serious path, injecting humorous moments that often worked against the show’s dramatic momentum. This isn’t a knock against Mo Collins or Daryl Mitchell so much as it is against Fear’s writers, who often seemed to struggle with the sudden tonal shifts these characters brought to their scenes....

Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 3 It may be odd to suggest that after three seasons, a major character death could be sudden. And yet here we are, sucker-punched by Fear the Walking Dead’s nascent fourth season. Seriously, major spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned. How you feel about Nick’s (untimely?) death may largely depend on how long you’ve been watching Fear. If you followed Morgan over from The Walking Dead, Nick’s demise may not be quite as shocking as it might be for viewers who’ve been with Fear since the very beginning....

When I realised that the larger story arc in Fringe had taken a week off, I was a little concerned that the show might go back to an X-Files mode. But, actually, Dream Logic turned out to be more interesting than that. The man is subdued and brought to hospital where when, after Walter, Peter and Olivia conveniently arrive, he drops dead of extreme exhaustion. This segues into a lovely aside where Fringe is helped by FBI agent Kashner, who has never dealt with Walter or Peter before....

3.14 6B After watching it twice now, I’ve come to the certain, but not proven assertion that it was a very curious and quite subtle homage to Ghostbusters. From the outset, it shouted ‘Nobody steps on a church in my town’ from the very corner penthouse of spook central. A couple arrive at a midtown apartment, passing a woman who is moving out due to disturbances she can’t handle. They go to a party, not entirely unlike the party that Louis Tully has, except in this one, instead of a Terror Dog appearing, some of the guests fall from a balcony to their deaths....

This review contains spoilers. Resolution is almost at hand in Fringe, or rather, it probably isn’t entirely as they’ve agreed for a shortened season 5 to appear this coming fall. Brave New World – Part 1 resolved a great many things, not all of which fitted so well with things we’ve previously been told. Not least of those was the reappearance of Leonard Nimoy as William Bell, who I’m sure ‘retired’ a while back from acting....

Are the writers of Futurama running out of ideas? I mean a second appearance in as many weeks for Tom Baker’s Doctor Who? C’mon guys, how about some Davison or Tennant action? Also, last week’s episode saw a flying London bus, a la Planet of the Dead (one of the Doctor Who 2009 specials), and now a space whale! (Not unlike last year’s Who, story The Beast Below.) Completing the original Planet Express line-up is everyone’s favourite lobster, Zoidberg....

5.2 The House Of Black And White Game Of Thrones is one of the funniest shows on television. It’s strange to say that about a show that revels in violence, that has no problems cutting down its lead characters, its moral centres, its charming rogues, and its love-to-hate villains, but it’s true. When Game Of Thrones wants to be funny, it can be very, very funny, and tonight’s episode was full of brilliantly funny moments....

6.5 The Door Talk about an emotional wringer. As I watched the final scenes of The Door, I went through the full gamut of Game Of Thrones-related emotions. Angry that the episode was drawing to a close when all I wanted was to see more. Fear that Bran, Hodor, and Meera wouldn’t get away from the rampaging hordes of zombies and the Winter King. Sadness at just what happened to bring the episode to a close....

6.6 Blood Of My Blood At times throughout the six seasons of Game Of Thrones, it’s felt that all the story lines are moving except for Daenerys Targaryen’s tale of revenge. Sure, she’s conquered cities and raised an army while being a single mother to three surly teenage dragons, but at the same time, she’s not really done that much either. Daenerys has been a lot of spinning wheels and painful lessons....

In very extreme cases, we end up convincing ourselves that the world would be a better place if we weren’t in it. That’s key thing number one. No matter how alone, no matter how isolated you feel, we’d wager our Jason Statham collection of DVDs and Blu-rays – regular readers will know just what high stakes those are to us – that you’re not the only person who feels that way....

The diaries are terrific. Rae is terrific. And when we chatted to her earlier this year about her work, she offered so much terrific advice on mental health and coping with anxiety that we’ve stuck some of it below. Over to you, Rae… Get out a pad, write something, draw something, get some bloody Plasticine, it does not matter, make music, create. It’s no accident that years ago there used to be that joke about mental health hospitals making you do basket-weaving....

This week’s Geeks Vs Loneliness has been inspired by the outstanding work of The Blurt Foundation, and a post Tweeted from its account earlier this week. It’s not a new post, as it turns out, but it is an important one. It’s entitled ‘a letter to parents who have a child with depression’. The key points, therefore, that we took out of Blurt’s post and want to reiterate here: • It’s nobody’s fault....

GFW has some big hurdles ahead. Can they re-brand the company successfully under the GFW name? Can they build an audience on Pop TV? The more pressing question is whether or not Anthem can secure a more worthwhile television deal in 2018, which even Jeff Jarrett hinted at during his press outings last week hyping Slammiverasry. Jarrett said he wanted the company to “get on TV in 2018.” That’s an indictment on its current TV deal and means Jarrett wants to get the company back to a point its viable as an entertainment entity....

That’s not to say there aren’t some gems waiting for you in the franchise’s diverse line-up of games. With the Ghostbusters answering the call once again this month, both on the big screen and consoles, we’re looking back at the best, weirdest, and worst games. A Ghostbusters game in 1984 on the Commodore 64 and NES and it sucked. The game played like a bored parent pretending to be interested in a child while doing his taxes: you started off having to pay thousands of dollars for equipment with names like “ghost vacuum” and “ghost alarm,” then spent half the game just driving places....

Girls Season 5 Episode 2 This a better episode than the premiere because it’s funnier. Multiple jokes made me laugh out loud within the first few minutes. But I can’t say I’m exactly in love with what’s going on with the plot here. But now the goofiness feels turned up in a way I don’t know that I like. Don’t get me wrong, goofiness is perfectly permissible when you contextualize it....

2.17 Into The Woods On this week’s Gotham, it was the best of times (for the first half of this episode), it was the worst of times (for the second half of this episode). I am being hyperbolic. All in all, this was a pretty great episode. Unfortunately, the momentum built up in the first half of the episode — and in the larger Ed becomes Riddler plot — was squandered in a too-fast, too-easy wrap-up....

“There is no mercy in you. You cut off the heads of men and women and these you wear as a garland around your neck.” Wesens are not immune to prejudices and racism in the name of purity. The council frowns upon mixed marriages as surely as a hardened redneck in Alabama or Tennessee. Rosalee and Monroe, different species of Wesen, had the gall to marry. Team Grimm will have none of that....

Grimm Season 6 Episode 6 “Breakfast in Bed” deals with mental health, maps, time, as well as present and future dangers. Characters have a difficult time believing what they’re seeing, which isn’t new on Grimm, however this installment makes a direct connection with the unseen landscape of the mind. Grimm is built on the duality of the real versus imagined world of unsuspecting Portland residents. Those suffering from mental illness have a daunting task of communicating their fleeting thoughts that can be as light as a feather, or as menacing as a gorilla....