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  • How Will Better Call Saul End?

    Better Call Saul ended its penultimate season with the best run of episodes in the show’s history. While the prequel/spin-off to Breaking Bad was good from the outset, each progressive season has improved on the last, and its fifth was some of the best television in years. The series...
  • Studio Ghibli Review (Part 6)

    Tales From Earthsea & From Up On Poppy Hill   This is part 6 of a series of reviews, looking at Studio Ghibli’s films, you can find Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 which look at Hayao Miyazaki’s and Yoshifumi Kondō’s directed films, by clicking on the hyperlinks....
  • Why ‘Chapter 2: The Child’ is The Mandalorian’s Best Episode

    In the lead-up to The Mandalorian airing, we were expecting a very different show than the one we received. Star Wars’ first foray into live-action television was presumed to be a wholly serialised affair, but the structure of the season turned out to be anything but. The first three...
  • How Killing Eve Season 3 Fixed Season 2’s Biggest Misstep

    Killing Eve’s third season came to a close last week and the latest eight episodes have split opinion quite dramatically. While the show is nowhere near the quality of its first, Phoebe Waller-Bridge written season, I found the third season to be a big step up from the second....
  • Could Homeland Continue Without Carrie?

    After ten years and eight seasons, Homeland has come to an end. The show has had a fascinating journey from its acclaimed first season to its surprisingly strong final instalment that both brought the show full circle and reinvented it once again. The series seemed to fall out of...
  • Westworld’s Action Scenes Have Become a Major Problem

    I didn’t want to write anything about Westworld season 3. I didn’t want to think about it any longer than I had to. Just doing so makes me sad. I miss the show as it once was; not just the location of the titular homicide holiday park but the...
  • Game of Thrones Season 8 One Year Later: ‘The Iron Throne’

    For the past six weeks, I’ve been revisiting each episode of Game of Thrones’  final season exactly a year after they first aired. Today it all comes to an end as I review the contentious series finale ‘The Iron Throne’. When I began rewatching this season I was shocked...
  • Game of Thrones Season 8 One Year Later: ‘The Bells’

    Each week I’m revisiting an episode of Game of Thrones’ infamous final season exactly one year after it first aired. Today, I’m looking at the most controversial episode of the entire series: ‘The Bells’. Game of Thrones is known for its penultimate episodes. The ninth episode of every season...
  • Game of Thrones Season 8 One Year Later: ‘The Last of the Starks’

    For six weeks I’m reviewing every episode of Game of Thrones’ final season exactly one year after they originally aired. Today I’m revisiting the fourth episode of the notorious season, ‘The Last of the Starks’. ‘The Last of the Starks’ is the worst episode of Game of Thrones. It...