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Monday, 29 April 2024

Echo: Tuklo

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 "If the offer still stands... I'm helping you." This is the best episode so far. Of course, it centres on Maya, Bonnie and th...
Sunday, 28 April 2024

Inspector Morse: Deceived by Flight

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 "You can't arrest a man because his wife won't sleep with him." This is,perhaps, not as good an episode as some, and it f...
Thursday, 25 April 2024

Comments

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 Annoyingly, for a while I've only been able to respond to comments as "Anonymous" because Blogger makes me "sign in...
Wednesday, 24 April 2024

The Sweeney: Ringer

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 "Who's Godot?" "Plays full back for QPR." I knew of The Sweeney , of course. I certainly knew the theme tune, one o...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Echo: Lowak

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 "You seem to have forgotten that the people close to you are the ones who get hurt..." The strong start continues; I'm enjoyi...
Sunday, 21 April 2024

The Cruel Sea (1953)

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"You know, when you lose a ship, it's like losing a bit of yourself." I'm becoming increasingly fascinated by British war ...
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Batman: The Doom of the Rising Sun

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"I assure you I'm no footpad!" The finale starts off with a fascinating, and rather good, cliffhangerresolution. Last episode ...
Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Echo: Chafa

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 "You have greatness in you..." Bear with me; Robin of Sherwood will follow in this blogging "slot", then more Twin Pea...
Sunday, 14 April 2024

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouisie (1972)

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 "Unbelievable what they smoke in the army..." It's about time I watched and blogged another of Luis Bunuel's extraordinar...
Tuesday, 9 April 2024

Twin Peaks: The Last Evening

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 "One can never answer questiions at the wrong moment..." And so the first season is over, rather satifyingly. Of course, not all ...
Monday, 8 April 2024

Batman: The Executioner Strikes

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"Looks like a trap..." "'Course it is. But we won't get caught in it." Of course you won't, Bruce. Although ...
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Better Call Saul: Wiedersehen

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 "We should only use our powers for good..." This is a fascinating penultimate episode. An awful lot happens, and there's so m...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Morbius (2022)

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 "I'm going to get hungry. And you don't want to see me when I'm hungry." I'm not too familiar with the Morbius ch...
Wednesday, 3 April 2024

The Amazing Digital Circus: Pilot

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 "Do you like adventure, activity, wonder, danger, horror, pain, suffering, agony? Death, disease, angel food cake?" I don't u...
Sunday, 31 March 2024

Batman: Eight Steps Down

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 "Stop at the first police box you come to." That line was, to put it mildly, unexpected for this serial made in 1943 and set, I b...
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Twin Peaks: Realisation Time

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 "Once a day, give yourself a present!" Oh, whetre to start? There's just so much going on in this penultimate episode. I can...
Monday, 25 March 2024

Batman: Embers of Evil

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 "That's the way with me- always late..." Yes, I know: the cliffhanger resolution isrubbish, re-editing things so Batman and R...
Sunday, 24 March 2024

Better Call Saul: Coushatta

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 "Yes, well, I got my crawdads in my pants." Another subtle little character episode here, setting things up for the final two epi...

Generation X (1996 TV Pilot)

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 "No one's touching my butt!" So this is a very, very obscure '90s TV pilot for a vaguely X-Men -themed series that never ...
Saturday, 23 March 2024

The Unknown (1927)

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Up until yesterday, I'd never heard of this wonderful late Hollywood film, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney Sr and Joan ...
Thursday, 21 March 2024

Twin Peaks: Cooper's Dreams

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 "My log does not judge." Wow. Where to start with this one? There's so much going on. So let's see... the Norwegian inves...
Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Batman: A Nipponese Trap

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 "I got out at the last minute..." Eleven episodes in, and I really must praise the music. The opening music is pretty good, and I...
Monday, 18 March 2024

The Way: The Wait

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 "It affects everyone in a family, doesn't it? When one person is suffering." Well then. Where do I even start with this mater...
Thursday, 14 March 2024

Batman: Flying Spies

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"A pity Marshall was killed in that mine disaster instead of you!" Yes, the above quote is how Daka speaks to his main henchman in...
Tuesday, 12 March 2024

The Way: The Walk

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 "Am I going mad? Or is it the world?" After a first episode, highly impressive in itself, setting up this new dystopia, now we ge...
Monday, 11 March 2024

What If... Strange Supreme Intervened?

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 "Right.So you're here to narrate." "It's my job". Nice little bit of forth wall breaking in the quote there. It...
Sunday, 10 March 2024

Batman: The Sign of the Sphinx

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 "It's Batman!" More of the same here, really, from cliffhanger to cliffhanger, beginning and ending with the perilous afterma...

Richard III (1955)

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 "Conscience is a word that cowards use..." Ah, Richard III. Maybe he killed the princes, maybe he didn't. Maybe he was a tyra...
Thursday, 7 March 2024

The Way: The War

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 "What is it that rises up the moment it falls?" I was made aware of this series the other day at work, I looked it up... and not ...
Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Batman: Lured by Radium

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 "Hey, Sitting Bull..." Yep. The above is how one of the baddies addresses a Native American gentleman in this episode. Racxism ag...
Monday, 4 March 2024

What If... the Avengers Assembled in 1602?

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 "We never get our happy ending..." I read Neil Gaiman's limited series of 1602 a couple of decades ago, but I fear I remember...
Thursday, 29 February 2024

What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?

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"I have not survived a thousand years of war to die at the hand of foliage!" Once again we have a superb episode of What If?- this...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Batman: The Phoney Doctor

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 "I know you're sorry. You're always sorry. You're the sorriest man I ever knew." We begin with an outrageous cheat of...
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Sunday, 25 February 2024

Better Call Saul: Something Stupid

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 "Dude, I don't need to be a lawyer, all right? I'm a magic man." It's a nice little trick, to allow at least four mon...

Visitor Q (2001)

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 "What do you think of such wonderful bullying?" Oh my. I knew this film would be weird, and I knew it would be disturbing. But I ...
Saturday, 24 February 2024

Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

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 "I must from this enchanting queen break off..." I've read Antony and Cleopatra , but this is my first time seeing a producti...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Batman: Poison Peril

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 "Oh Bruce... you're impossible!" The cliffhanger is soon resolved by, er, simply having the plane crash into the ground but w...
Sunday, 18 February 2024

What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?

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 "Welcome to the New World..." This, motre than any other episode, has only the most tangential relationship to the rest of the MC...

Assignment to Kill (1968)

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 "I'm just calling to say I loathe and despise you and everything you stand for, and what time are you taking me to dinner tonight?...
Saturday, 17 February 2024

Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

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 Like Robots and Empire , this novel can very much be seen as continuity-driven, tying up loose ends in what Asimov has decided to make a si...
Thursday, 15 February 2024

What if... Captain Carter fought the Hydra Stomper

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 "I don't do sequels... normally." And I thought last episode was good. This one is simply outstanding. It helps, of course, t...
Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Batman: The Living Corpse

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 "Stop! Behind you! The Batman!" This being a movie serial, with fifteen likely interminable episodes of set pieces and probable f...
Monday, 12 February 2024

What If... Iron Man Crashed into the Grandmaster?

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 "Take that, vile asparagus woman." This is, quite simply, one of the best episodes of What If I've seen thus far, perhaps th...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 8

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 "Oh noooo!" And so it ends, as any good melodrama should, with a proper full-on confrontation between Maya and the Burketts, in w...
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

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I've said before that I used to see Isaac Asimov's 1980s novels as being, while highly enjoyable, essentially as a kind of self-fanf...
Monday, 5 February 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 7

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 "You're not fit for work, Kierce." "No, I'n not." Wow, That final bombshell in thedying seconds of the episode ...
Friday, 2 February 2024

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

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 "A A, eh?" This is, I believe, by the creative team behind the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford who, indeed, gets a...
Monday, 29 January 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 6

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 "You keep sytumbling over dead bodies, don't you, Maya?" A grumble, before the praise begins. I know I've whinged a lot a...
Sunday, 28 January 2024

Better Call Saul: Pinata

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 "Get rich quick schemes never work." The saddest scene, and also the most revealing, is where Jimmy visits HHM to pick up his $5,...
Saturday, 27 January 2024

The Red Beret (1953)

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 "There are two kinds of men who jump- those who are crazy and those who are stupid." This is, I suppose, a fairly standard Britis...
Thursday, 25 January 2024

Batman: Slaves of the Rising Sun

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"You and all your Axis cronies... you're through!" A lot happens in this episode between the two cliffhangers of the railway b...
Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 5

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 "The rich protect each other..." The plot continues to be splendidly convoluted. Corey knows the Burketts are mixed up in some se...
Tuesday, 23 January 2024

What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?

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 "'Twas only two hours prior, and the Tower was not yet on fire..." I know, it's late January, and I'm doing the Chris...
Sunday, 21 January 2024

Better Call Saul: Quite a Ride

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 "You can't play chicken with me. I invented chicken." It's a fascinating choice that this episode, filled with notably cr...

Dogma (1999)

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 "Bethany, bless the sink!" I watched, and enjoyed this film, many years ago but, as often happens as the decades pass- and I am n...
Thursday, 18 January 2024

What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?

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 "Bummer. I thought you were the dude from Van Halen." Yes, I know. I'm doing so much telly at the moment, and it's a stru...
Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 4

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 "Boom!" Grr. I know I've spent half these reviews moanimg about Kierce being referred to as "Detective" rather than...
Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 3

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 "Life-ruining rat!" Deep breath. Lots of rabbit holes here. So... The red car belongs to Corey the Whistle, who had dodgy arrange...
Monday, 15 January 2024

Fool Me Once: Episode 2

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 "Lying's never good policing." No, DI Kierce. And nor is lying by omission to your fiancee about your blackouts while being o...

Twin Peaks: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer

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"Fire, walk with me..." This, if you'll recall, is the third episode, and the one I inadvertentle skipped, having watched and ...