After six weeks where Captain Jack Harkness has become the only mortal human on the planet, and where he’s been anything but on the front line of Miracle Day, it’s time for John Barrowman to go front and centre. With the latest episode, Immortal Sins, it’s very much the first Jack-centric hour of new Torchwood, and it’s been well worth the wait. It’s excellent flashback work, too, which we won’t spoil here. It fleshes a few things out, and, not for the first time this series, plays out a sequence or two that’s really quite uncomfortable to watch. Torchwood continues not to pull any punches, that much is clear. Immortal Sins does pick up pretty much where last week left off, as Gwen has to decide what to do. Her predicament is that her family has been taken, and that she needs to deliver Jack in order to get them back. She’s ordered to keep the lenses in, so she’s constantly been watched, and this inevitably puts her under all kinds of pressure. It’s an important episode, this one, even if it doesn’t always feel like it is. It’s not got the intense moments that have marked out some earlier parts of the show’s run, but this is about characters, and where they fit in. We can imagine that Immortal Sins is going to be about as divisive an episode as you’ll get all series. Those thirsting for something more on the beaten track are certainly going to be disappointed, as there’s a real sense that Miracle Day is taking a bit of a gamble with this one. Especially given that there’s only three episodes left by the time the credits rolled. Torchwood: Miracle Day airs on BBC1, Thursdays at 9:00pm. Read more about Torchwood: Miracle Day here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
