The central theme of AppleTV’s post-apocalyptic drama Silo is an exploration of the illusion of safety - and it’s driven home very quickly, as the audience learns no character is safe as the first few episodes unfold. Set in an indeterminate time in an indeterminate...
In our latest podcast we discuss the demise of Ripper Street, whether bullying is happening in the jungle and rave about Him and Her.
To me at least spying dramas fall into two categories. One is the high-octane explosion-packed shows such as Spooks while the other are quieter efforts such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. BBC2's Legacy definitely fell into the latter category as it captured a bleak...
Staring in the late 1980s the Ruth Rendell Mysteries became synonymous with ITV prime time drama and introduced us to the character of Detective Inspector Wexford played brilliantly by the late George Baker. The last of these Wexford stories was broadcast on our...
Did we like it? A giant sloth of a thriller moving slowly towards nutrition but at such a ponderous pace that it’s in danger of losing grip and tumbling into the blanket of anonymous foliage beneath. What was good about it? • The quality of the acting is the life...
Fairy Tales: Rapunzel, BBC1 Did we like it? It was a little too childish for adults, and a little too adult for children leaving it as a mangled farce, but was partially saved by Lee Ingleby, Geraldine James and Charity Wakefield in the lead roles. What was good about...
From just the title of this new lavish costume drama based on the novel by Anthony Trollope, it’s easy to already picture the protagonist of the tale – a brash, arrogant, young man who has succeeded in life through his very inflexibility, the very traits that will...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...