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Sunday, 30 June 2019

House of Cards: Episode 3

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"His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait, that... in a spaniel, or a whore. Not, I think, in a prime minis...

Atypical: Season 1, Episode 5- That's My Sweatshirt

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"I'm black, so they put me on the brochure." Another extraordinary nuanced episode of character drama; I'm finding Atyp...

Good Omens: Saturday Morning Funtime

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“Did you count their nipples?” Adam, very much a Boy's Own Antichrist, is starting to affect reality in visually expressive ways which...

Circus of Horrors (1960)

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"Quick, get her to a doctor. And send the clowns in." This is a mildly obscure but well regarded non-Hammer horror film, one w...
Saturday, 29 June 2019

Good Omens: Hard Times

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"I didn't really fall. I just, you know, sauntered vaguely downwards..." A surprising start, this time, as an extraordinaril...

iZombie: The Fresh Princess

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"It's like calling a pine cone 'your majesty'..." This season, now we’re just a few episodes from the end, is slowly...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

House of Cards: Episode 2

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"Would you be into quickies at all?" If this were to be made today, perhaps- and I haven't seen the American remake with Kev...

Atypical: Season 1, Episode 4- A Nice Neutral Smell

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"She's a girl who wants to touch your peen..." A surprisingly eventful episode here as we reach the season halfway point. It...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Good Omens: The Book

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"Let us discuss my purchase in a private place, because I am buying... pornography!" The quality and the humour doesn't let ...

Good Omens: In the Beginning

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”Welcome to the end times..” I've read the novel of Good Omens . In fact, I've read it half a dozen times, which puts it right up ...

The Prisoner: The Schizoid Man

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" Your job, Number Twelve, is to impersonate him. Take his identity away." This episode is an extraordinary example of instituti...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2019

House of Cards: Episode 1

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"You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment..." Long before Kevin Spacey was a household name, let alone disgraced, Ian...
Monday, 24 June 2019

The Prisoner: Free for All

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"Very good technique. Where did you get him? "The Civil Service. He adapted immediately." I know it's been a while si...
Sunday, 23 June 2019

Dead of Night (1945)

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"Mr Craig is going to hit me, savagely!" Oh well, I'm sure he can hit somebody else instead." Wow. That blew me awa...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

Atypical: Season 1, Episode 3- Julia Says

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”I put my butt on his car...!" Another well-crafted piece of drama and a treatises on faithfulness this episode. The series isn't...

iZombie: Death of a Car Salesman

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”Herbie wasn’t evil. He was the Love Bug.” I can’t believe how close we are to the end; previous seasons have drifted off the format a bit...
Friday, 21 June 2019

Atypical: Season 1, Episode 2- A Human Female

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“Nobody needs you, Mom!” On the surface this episode centres around Sam’s crush for Julia and his comical misunderstanding that he has the...
Thursday, 20 June 2019

Years and Years: Episode 6

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"This is the world we built." Although we start the episode as one might expect- Vivienne Rook is PM, and she does a lot of Trum...

Atypical: Season 1, Episode 1- Antarctica

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“People on the spectrum date, you know." This is a series on Netflix that Mrs Llamastrangler and I are going to be watching once a we...
Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Years and Years: Episode 5

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"I’ll just topple the government. How about that?” It’s 2028. Vivienne Rook is PM and initially little has changed- indeed, Rook’s pu...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Years and Years: Episode 4

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"Turns out we were born in a pause..." This is a bloody brilliant piece of telly. There’s so much going on, obviously- not least...
Monday, 17 June 2019

Inhumans: The Gentleman’s Name Is Gorgon

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”You’re like some kind of god of thunder!” Another so-so episode- but have we seen the last of the scenes set on Earth? Please? Sorry, Haw...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

iZombie: Filleted to Rest

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"She fired people for existing wrong." Another superb episode that, as this season is continuously doing with admirable skill, m...

Captain Kronos- Vampire Hunter (1974)

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"What he doesn't know about vampirism wouldn't fill a flea's codpiece." This is a film that, whatever its virtues,...
Saturday, 15 June 2019

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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"Each man creates his own God for himself, his own Heaven, his own Hell." I'd seen and blogged a couple of Roger Corman’s ...
Friday, 14 June 2019

iZombie: The Scratchmaker

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”Let’s face it- we’ve all got a little monster in us.” It finally happened; a Blaine episode, after his near-absence from the opening epis...
Monday, 10 June 2019

The Five Venoms (1978)

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"Once an evil deed is done, it never ends.” I haven't seen many films in this genre at all; I blogged another Shaw Brothers fil...
Saturday, 8 June 2019

Deathstalker (1983)

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“Heroes and fools are the same thing...” This is one of many sword and sorcery films that sprang up in the wake of Conan the Barbarian...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

The Prisoner: A. B. and C

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"This is a dreamy party..." Well, that was certainly different. I suppose this is early in the series, it's too soon to ha...
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The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben

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"I don't want a man of fragments..." I’ve asked around and ummed and ahhed and done a bit of reading to see what the best or...
Wednesday, 5 June 2019

The Prisoner: Arrival

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"We're all pawns, my dear. Your move." This blog started out with Doctor Who and then Blake's 7 ; I think it's time...
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Tuesday, 4 June 2019

I, Clavdivs: Old King Log

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"The man who dwells by the pool shall open Graves..." The first episode, which seems so long ago, featured an interesting bit of...
Monday, 3 June 2019

Years and Years: Episode 3

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"The gig economy, that's me." Things slow down a bit in the third episode as the characters get a chance to breathe and resp...
Saturday, 1 June 2019

iZombie: Death Moves Pretty Fast

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"Can a thing that's known for doing a thing do that very thing?" As if it were possible for this season of iZombie to ramp ...
Friday, 31 May 2019

The Driller Killer (1979)

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“You should let him stick it up your ass once. Use KY jelly. It won't hurt." This is the original video nasty which, in this co...

I Clavdivs: A God in Colchester

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"Copulation on a cosmic scale!" This episode is, to a large extent, a continuation of the last one with even more sex- although ...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

I Clavdivs: Fool's Luck

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"Congratulations, Caesar. You've just passed your first sentence of death. How many before the people grow tired and pass one on yo...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Years and Years: Episode 2

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"This is a different country to the one I left..." First episodes of new dramas are always, to an extent, set up, introducing us...
Monday, 27 May 2019

The Old Dark House (1932)

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"Even Welsh doesn't sound like that!" I've been somewhat remiss in leaving it until now, when I'm forty-two years ...

iZombie: Dot Zom

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“The future will be obnoxious..." Another clever episode, at its heart another whodunit of the week, but one through which the arc an...
Friday, 24 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Hail Who?

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“Drusilla! I’m dying!” So this is it; the big one. Claudius, amongst chaotic schemes, and while protesting that he wants a republic, is ma...
Thursday, 23 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Zeus, By Jove

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"Don't go in there..." In a sense this episode just goes to show an increasing sense of depravity in Julio-Claudia Rome, as ...
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Reign of Terror

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“Do you know him personally?” “No, but I have slept with his wife several times.” This time I , Clavdivs channels the Ben Jonson play S...
Tuesday, 21 May 2019

I Clavdivs: Queen of Heaven

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“He’s building a prison here, stone by stone.” Damn all this current telly and it’s distracting me from the antics of those naughty Julio-...
Monday, 20 May 2019

Years and Years: Episode 1

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"Don't know if I could have a kid in a world like this." RTD is back, after last year's superb A Very English Scandal , ...
Sunday, 19 May 2019

Scream and Scream Again! (1970)

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“That bloody chicken wasn’t killed- it died of old age!”  This is an odd film, not at all what the marketing, title and poster lead us t...

iZombie: Five, Six, Seven, Ate

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“Nobody puts Ravi in a corner!” Another bloody strong episode here that continues to set up plot threads for the final season while still ...
Thursday, 16 May 2019

Inhumans: Something Inhuman This Way Comes

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"This is my office!" So we begin with an amusingly post-coital Karnak, somewhat confused as to the feelings he has for Jen. The ...
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Slender Man (2018)

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"Once you see him, you can't unsee him." This is certainly a contender for one of the worst films I've ever blogged. I...

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

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"Why do you think Twitter and Facebook are free?" Yes, I know; I use the above two social media platforms to plug this very bl...