In recent years, queer TV shows and representation have been slowly rising in popularity and getting a lot more attention, which is nothing but good news. However, a lot of them tend to fall into three categories: teen drama, autobiographical, or full-on tragedy....
There's another version of Task that ends with Maeve (Emilia Jones) getting the bag of money from her uncle, and Tom (Mark Ruffalo) and Aleah (Thuso Mbedu) learning that their fellow Task force member Grasso (Fabien Frankel) was the mole, feeding information to the...
Last week, Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) gave Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) his last chance to walk away from all this mess. In an emotional and honest car ride to Bushkill, the two lead actors finally shared a scene together where they spoke about death, faith, and family....
In episode 3 of Task, we were treated to a flashback to the day Tom (Mark Ruffalo), his wife, and their young daughter, Sara (Phoebe Fox), welcomed their new adopted children, Emily (Silvia Dionicio) and Ethan (Andrew Russel), into the family home for the first time....
This is incredibly awkward. I have to start this review by confessing to something. In my review for the first episode, I omitted what is clearly a hugely important plot point going forward. Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) isn't randomly scoping out these trap houses owned by...
*This review includes spoilers for the opening episode of Task* Task opens by introducing two men. These men have a lot in common; they are both burdened by a past trauma that lingers just below the surface, they both feel in a rut, like the best years of their lives...
The Sky Original event series – a symphony of genius, rivalry and vengeance – also stars Gabrielle Creevey and launches on Sky later this year. ky unveils a first look at Will Sharpe (Giri/Haji, The White Lotus) as musical prodigy Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart, Paul...
Sky and HBO today announce WAR, a bold new legal thriller from the creator of Lupin and Hijack, starring Dominic West (The Wire, The Crown) as tech titan Morgan Henderson and Sienna Miller (Anatomy of a Scandal, American Sniper) as his estranged wife, international...
The final episode of The Last of Us season 2 follows on from where episode 5 left off. While spending extended time with Ellie (Bella Ramsay) and Joel was nice, making their flashback the penultimate episode meant that any momentum built by Ellie's risky journey...
The penultimate episode of the season begins with a flashback to Austin, Texas, in 1983, in which a young Joel (Andrew Diaz / Pedro Pascal) covers for Tommy (David Miranda / Gabriel Luna) by lying to their father, Javier (Tony Dalton). The episode's throughline is...
Episode 4 opens with the introduction of Isaac Dixon (the ever-incredible Jeffrey Wright) as we see his backstory unfold with him joining the WLF 11 years prior. In the source material, little is known about Isaac’s backstory, so getting to see how he joined the WLF...
After last week's brutally chaotic episode, episode 3 of The Last of Us is more interested in the quiet moments of grief and the long road ahead for Jackson’s survivors. Beginning with the aftermath of the infected onslaught that brought death and destruction and a...
Interestingly, both episodes of The Last of Us season 2 have opened with Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), much like I mentioned during my review of episode 1; we see the fallout of Joel’s actions and how they affect others. This time, we open with Abby’s nightmare: her younger...
The first fifteen minutes or so of The Last of Us season 2 are quite discombobulating, even for someone who enjoyed the first. The long gaps between seasons of television is making it increasingly harder to remember where you left things with these characters. It soon...
What will happen today?” These are the words of the monk overlaying the opening scenes and match my own as I awaited the final episode of the season. He continues, “There is no resolution,”, at which point I started to panic, having spent seven hours investing in...
It’s Friday night at the White Lotus, the night after the full-moon party by my calculations. Yet it’s not time for a quiet night in. Instead, we’ve got the much-anticipated Muay Thai fight, Greg/Gary’s (Jon Gries) dinner party, a sleepover at the monastery and a...
After the antics of the full-moon party that counteracted the slow burn of the preceding episodes, episode six was an opportunity for us to catch our breath and digest what exactly we’d just witnessed. So too are the characters onscreen, who are learning more about...
I am not a hard man, I admit it, the thought of violence exploding around me, makes me instinctively look for a teacher to tell. But… I bloody love Gangs of London. Yes, the most balletic of extremely violent TV series is back for its third series on Sky Atlantic/Now...
The theme of this week was self-discovery. Piper set out her plans to find meaning. The Full-Moon parties were a chance for several characters to let loose, especially for Saxon and Lochlan who found themselves pushing, er, conventional boundaries. Belinda finally let...
The Thai edition of The White Lotus has thus far been largely a masterpiece in character development and subtle symbolism. There has been an undercurrent of darkness, more so than in the two previous seasons, priming viewers for a sinister denouement. Finally, as we...
Three episodes in, is it too early to declare Mike White the modern-day Shakespeare? His scripts are loaded with clues and insight into the character’s intentions, and the accompanying cinematography is completely intoxicating. Whilst we try to unravel the mystery, it...
First impressions can be deceiving when operated by skilled performers adept at masking their true colours and, as ever, The White Lotus is full of appearances that hide a trove of secrets. By the end of episode one, cracks had started to form in the facades. Everyone...
Two years on from the untimely loss of Tanya McQuoid, I’m still grieving. Nonetheless, my thirst for an opulent holiday resort exclusively for the rich masquerading dark secrets is peaking: it’s clearly time for the next instalment of the global sensation that is The...
If anything good came from the global pandemic in 2020, it would have to be The White Lotus. Its creator Mike White has spoken of being tasked by HBO to concoct an idea that would involve one location and be COVID-friendly; the product of this brief was The White...