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Saturday, 31 May 2025

Doctor Who: The Reality War

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 "So much for the two Ranis. It's goodnight from me." Obviously, the above line is so brilliant that this episode is a triumph...
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Friday, 30 May 2025

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

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It's always a joy to discover an author new to me, if obviously one I most certainly had heard of, appearing with increasing frequency o...
Saturday, 24 May 2025

Doctor Who: Wish World

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 "This isn't exposition, Doctor." The opening scene to this episode is decidedly odd, in ways which, I think, are oddly clever...
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Thursday, 22 May 2025

Twin Peaks: Drive with a Dead Girl

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 "Ben... as your attorney, your friend and your brother, I strongly suggest that you get yourself a better lawyer." This episode, ...
Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Andor: Ever Been to Ghorman?

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 "Everyone has their own rebellion, right...? Yes, I know: I'm well behind on Andor . But I'll keep on at it... A year has pass...
Monday, 19 May 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Robin's Reckoning, Part I

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 "That Grayson kid's a real boy wonder." Tsk. I don't think much of the child labour laws in Gotham City, allowing the Gra...
Sunday, 18 May 2025

Dexter: Dexter

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 "See you at the next bloodbath?" You never know what you're going to get withy a pilot for a new series (yes, Dexter is the n...
Saturday, 17 May 2025

Doctor Who: The Interstellar Star Contest

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 "You came back from the dead!" "Sums up my career." SPOILERS, obviously. I'm not much of a one for light entertainm...
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Thursday, 15 May 2025

Update

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 I realise I’ve been rather inactive this week- that’s because of big life events that have been emotionally overwhelming. Not in a bad way,...
Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy

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 "Do you know what it means?" "Don't you?" At last the Commissioner has come up with the Bat Signal, fairly late in ...
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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Better Call Saul: Saul Gone

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 "So you were always like this..." And here we are. It's over... and it ends like this . Wow. That was an hour of television t...
Saturday, 10 May 2025

Doctor Who: The Story & the Engine

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 "This ship is in outer space, and in Lagos, at the same time..." Yet again, we get another bloody good episode, full of heart and...
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Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Perchance to Dream

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 "You don't like the fantasy world I've created for you?" This episode is, I suppose, simple: we get a high concept... er,...
Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Andor: Harvest

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 "I wish you were drunk." Wow. Three episodes in and we get a truly great episode. All three subplots here deepen the series' ...
Sunday, 4 May 2025

Better Call Saul: Waterworks

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 "Anyways, this guy, any good?" "When I knew him, he was." Observation number one: Jimmy/Saul/Gene... let's say ...

The Last English King by Julian Rathbone

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I last read this rather enjoyable and playful novel many, many years ago. It's the tale of Walt, one of King Harold's housecarls who...
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Saturday, 3 May 2025

Doctor Who: Lucky Day

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 "How committed are you to the lies you've told?" Like, I trust, most of us, I was somewhat displeased by the dismaying tenden...
Friday, 2 May 2025

The Gathering Storm

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 "He promised to cut down to three bottles of champagne in the evening." It's good to see this again, twenty-three years after...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Twin Peaks: Lonely Souls

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 "Would somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?" Ah, you can always tell when David Lynch directs an episode himse...
Monday, 28 April 2025

Andor: Sagrona Teema

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 "I feel... undervalued." The "A" story here, of many plot threads, is the one featuring Cassian himself, and a lot of a...
Sunday, 27 April 2025

Better Call Saul: Breaking Bad

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 "It's a simple up and down motion, like you're used to..." Yes, I know: we get THAT scene with cameos from admittedly sli...
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Doctor Who: The Well

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 "It's not appropriate to call me 'Babes'!" This episode was, of course, absolutely brilliant, if not quite up there w...
Friday, 25 April 2025

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

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 "I felt pretty good... like an amputated leg." I really ought to see far more classic film noirs. All the ones I've seen so f...
Thursday, 24 April 2025

Andor: One Year Later

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"If I die tonight, was it worth it?" Before I praise this episode, a bit of a whinge: yet again, a streaming service has debuted a...
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Better Call Saul: Nippy

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 "You want in the game?" So this is an excellent heist episode. Perfectly executed, scripted, shot. The suspense is exquisite, as ...
Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Eternal Youth

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 "Oh my.They even speak in unison." This may not be a stand-out episode, but it's a solid one nevertheless, further establishi...
Monday, 21 April 2025

Theatre of Death (1967)

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"But I didn't scream..." I was expecting this to be a rollicking Hammer-style horror B Movie, with all the fun that implies. A...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Doctor Who: Lux

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 "You're Scooby Doo!" "Honey, I'm Velma..." I suppose you could, at points, criticise this episode for bits of p...
Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Update

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 Just to say that updates will be sporadic to non-existent from now to Monday. This is just because of life stuff, nothing to worry about. A...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

Better Call Saul: Fun and Games

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 "What you talk about is not justice. What you talk of is revenge. It never ends." Thus speaks Nacho's grieving dad, and he sp...
Saturday, 12 April 2025

Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution

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 "Apparently I'm the Queen of Outer Space. If you could tell the police..." Well, that was rather good, I thought. One of the ...
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Friday, 11 April 2025

Groundhog Day (1993)

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 "Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today." This film is probably the chief reason we Brits know what a gro...
Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Twin Peaks: Demons

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 "I find the adherence to fantasy troubling and unreasaonable." Just when you think Twin Peaks can't get any more delightfully...
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Dreams in Darkness

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 "Why won't you believe me...?" I know: the premise is pretty much a cliche- the central protagonist, straitjacketed, in a pad...
Monday, 7 April 2025

Twin Peaks: The Orchid's Curse

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 "I'm a whole damn town!" Pretty much a bog standard episode here, with plot threads progressing and mysteries unfolding amids...
Sunday, 6 April 2025

Better Call Saul: Point and Shoot

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 "He is NOT coming back. And I thought last episode was superlative... soon I'll have no superlatives left. This is simply an extao...

The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It

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 "The unexpected but accurate bisecting of the Belgian foreign minister; the Royal College of Needlework massacre; the strange affair o...
Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Mad as a Hatter

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 "Gotta do what Mr Hat says!" Yet another strong episode this time around as another member of the Batman's traditional rogues...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Twin Peaks: Laura's Secret Diary

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 "He never exercises. He never washes his car. And he doesn't even own a sports coat!" By Twin Peaks standards, this is a fai...
Monday, 31 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Appointment in Crime Alley

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 "Good people still live in Crime Alley..." Another excellent episode this time, if more low key than some. Yes, the plot is basic...
Sunday, 30 March 2025

Better Call Saul: Plan and Execution

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 "Is this how these usually go?" Wow. SPOILERS, obviously. This was a perfectly crafted mid-season finale, with all the pieces fit...
Saturday, 29 March 2025

Carry On Camping (1969)

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 "Do you know, she's been showing me how to stick the pole up!" It's back to the contemporary world of 1969 after all of t...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Clock King

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 "I'm here to clean ypur clock, Fugate." Last episode may have been a little below the usual standard, but this one is as good...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Twin Peaks: The Man Behind the Glass

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 "I love you, Sheriff Truman." Less weirdness this week, possibly not unconnected to the fact that David Lynch doesn't direct....
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Fear of Victory

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 "There's enough powder in that helmet to panic a pachyderm!" After a run of very good episodes, we finally hit one that's...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Twin Peaks: Coma

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 "I do not introduce the log..." A lot of plot stuff happens here, pertaining to what happened witrh Lauraand all the many plot th...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

Better Call Saul: Axe and Grind

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 "Pop Pop, it's not that kind of gas!" Quickly checking the cast list on iMDb made me realise why Gus isn't in this- Gianc...

Hawk the Slayer (1980)

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"I'd sooner eat cow dung. Oh my. What did I just watch?  I absolutely adored this movie. I mean, yet again, I make no bones about t...
Saturday, 22 March 2025

The Blob (1958)

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 "Excuse us, we were just looking for a monster..." You know how you can sort of cheerfully accept that a film is flawed in many w...
Thursday, 20 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Vendetta

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 "I've had cats that made more noise than you...!" Another good episode here. Oh, we introduce Killer Croc, whosew portrayal i...
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Twin Peaks: May the Giant Be with You

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 "There are things in life that exist, yet our eyes cannot see them. I finished blogging the first season in... April 2024. Wow. No won...
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Joker's Favour

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 "You just toddle on back to your mundane, meaningless little life, and when I need you... I'll call..." And there she is: Har...