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This part of the walkthrough looks at the sixth episode from The Mick’s second season. Previous installments can be found here. In this installment, showrunners Dave and John Chernin are joined by the episode’s writer, Rob Rosell. Written by Rob Rosell; Directed by Richie Keen DEN OF GEEK: Mickey and Jimmy returning to their roots and learning a little more about their earlier years is a lot of fun. Were you excited to shed some light on that side of them?...

This review contains spoilers. The ability to stand still every so often works wonders for a thriller. Quiet moments don’t just offer a slip road away from the roaring influx of revelation, they allow tension to build and realisations to gradually dawn. Characters are given a chance to breathe uninterrupted by the noise of plot. The Missing, gripping as it is, could afford to stand still a little more often....

In the first five minutes of The Secret Of Crickley Hall, the Caleigh family experience a horror – the disappearance of their five-year-old son – so unthinkable that it’s difficult to see how any subsequent haunted house or spooky visitation could compare. A banal family morning becomes a harrowing scenario that makes for distressing viewing even before the Caleighs have upped sticks to Devil’s Cleave, the ominously-named village they seek respite in on the anniversary of the disappearance....

The Terror Episode 5 It’s commendable that The Terror takes its time to get to its horror moments when other series are content with jump scares and cheap thrills, but “First Shot a Winner, Lads” is a bit too slow. Things get going near the end with an entertaining action sequence that provides our best look yet at Tuunbaq, but that can’t quite make up for all the time the episode spends on Captain Francis’ alcoholism....

3.10 The New Deal My criticisms of season three have been predominantly about pacing and not seeing enough of certain characters, but most of those kinks have been worked out here, and what’s on offer bodes very well for the rest of the year. First of all, no one could criticise this tenth episode for being too slow or ponderous, as it manages to pack in a main character departure, an epic kiss, a couple of near death experiences and a lovely cliffhanger all in the space of an hour....

5.17 Rescue Me Despite the lengthy discussion about the moral complications of this particular subplot, it’s still a little troubling that the show would even entertain the possibility of its most likeable character murdering an innocent man. It was touch and go there for a minute but, when Caroline bottled it at the last second – planning to send Tom off into the sunset where he couldn’t be found – Enzo was on hand to finish the job....

6.19 Because Really, the great part of these storylines is what happens to the characters afterwards – the guilt they feel, the lessons they’ve learned. Caroline’s journey starts now, with the knowledge that the good things in her life – her compassion, her morals and her relationship with Stefan – are all in the rubble of her former life. How she got there was very affecting, too, even if most of this episode was water-treading until we got to that climactic moment....

The episode begins with a superbly shot opening, as Michonne wanders the grounds of the prison taking account of the destruction caused by the Governor’s final attack. It’s almost tranquil until the gut punch that is the sight of Hershel’s zombie head. Seriously, it’s like watching your own grandpa’s fish mouthed skull snapping at empty air. Thanks for that image now tattooed on my brain. For those wondering if the Governor is really dead, if he will miraculously return to take his revenge, the shot of the Governor’s corpse, complete with a bullet hole in his cranium the size of Copenhagen, Denmark should answer that question....

1.5 Wildfire The bodies are stacked up like cord wood in the aftermath of last week’s zombie attack on the survivor camp, and those who were lucky enough to escape unscathed are counting their blessings and trying to figure out just how to handle the deaths of their friends and loved ones. For some, like battered wife Carol (Melissa Suzanne McBride), it’s a chance to vent some frustration via pickax to the brain....

6.11 Knots Untie One of the good points of the beginning half of this season of The Walking Dead was the way it moved from episode to episode in pretty steady rising action. Events lead to events, plateau, more rising action, climax, vacation. It worked very well. From week to week, there was typically some tension lingering, something to mull over; there was plenty of action and killing, but it was never over until it was definitively over....

6.9 No Way Out It seems that every time Greg Nicotero directs an episode, I say essentially the same thing: the episode looks great and he gets really good performances out of the actors. However, No Way Out might be his best episode since the brilliant Carol-as-Rambo season 5 premiere, No Sanctuary. It’s really a great episode for Nicotero, who cut his teeth on horror movies and once again uses every trick in his visual playbook to get the absolute most out of every moment of this episode....

No one knows what actually happened to the Princes in the Tower, Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. They were 12 and 9 when they were locked up in the Tower of England in July 1483. Most people assume they were murdered but there is only circumstantial evidence. Though there were a lot of suspects, it remains a cold case. King Richard’s servant, James Tyrrell, confessed to the murders in 1501, during the reign of Henry VII....

1.1 The Wrong Mans “The Wrong Mans” is an annoying title, isn’t it? It’s ungrammatical, and saying it out loud feels awkward, like you’ve turned into a LOLcat halfway through. It’s not hard to work out why they chose it: the show is a gently absurdist spin on the action genre, and the title sounds like the title of an action movie, but with just a touch of daftness added onto the end....

2.4 Birthday Even the purest variety of love has its dark edges, Birthday showed us. Dad/daughter dances come with a side of unacknowledged weirdness. However innocent the intentions, there’s something a bit off about young women getting dolled up to wrap their arms around their fathers’ necks and play substitute partners. What, if anything, changes if said father isn’t the biological dad? How about if he’s the same age as the daughter’s boyfriend, who’s also there and referring to himself as her “old man”, pumping his crotch under her skirts and telling her to “come to Daddy”?...

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And before we go any further, let’s have a hearty round of applause for the cameo appearance by the voice of the Daleks himself, Nick Briggs, who was sitting proudly in the cabinet meeting. Marvellous stuff. But down to business. The episode picks up from the superb cliffhanger at the end of last night’s instalment, but takes some time to explain it, rather than rushing through to get on with fresh material....

Rendition It picks up after the opener, with Jack and Gwen taken by CIA agent Rex Matheson, and pretty much dragged onto a plane. In the process, Gwen is separated from her husband and child, and Rex Matheson comes across as a complete bastard. Full credit to Eve Myles, too: not for the only time this week, her acting is quite, quite brilliant. What the episode does, by the time it gets to its conclusion, is twist the relationship between the opposing sides who take their seats on that plane....

Now in week eight of its third season, True Blood was back with Night On The Sun, perhaps one of the darkest True Blood episodes to date. Not that the show is renowned for its light as air attitude, but still, with road kill-eating rednecks, break-ups and goodbyes, bloody fights and even bloodier death, not to mention language that would make Lafayette blush, season three has definitely kicked into high gear....

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is all about Kimmy becoming comfortable and used to the various aspects of her life, whether it’s her making new friends, pursuing education, getting a job, or simply living her life in a space that’s bigger than a studio apartment-sized bunker. In fact, the central premise of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is all about her attempts to learn what life is really all about, reclaim her lost years, and figure out who she really is....

Voltron Season 5 Episode 1 After the cliffhanger of season four you’d think this episode would pick right up with that “discussion” Lotor was going to have with the team. Instead it starts with an extended fight sequence with Voltron and while it demonstrates Lotor is giving the team legit information it goes on for a bit too long. The real meat of this episode is the interactions between Lotor and Allura and I wish it had gotten to them sooner....

4.7 Endless Wonder What an exciting episode! The pieces of the astrolabe story are starting to come together, H.G. is back, and the gang had dealings with an evil pharmaceutical company. Endless Wonder was really a very engaging episode that exchanged (most of) its usual cheesiness for a bit of drama and suspense. We start with Pete and Myka checking out a lead on a guy who has gotten much taller in just a few weeks....