Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Castle Rock… A metaphorical Harvest and the reaping of seeds sown brings home to roost certain truths about Castle Rock this week. Catholic attrition for past transgressions, past misdemeanours from those seemingly beyond redemption and a purging to wipe the slate clean for new comers. Beyond the biblical […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘Hilter’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Preacher season 3… Amongst the chuck away moments of caustic humour, Viking burials and Mozart references there is something more controversial afoot this week. Surrounded by sandwich fillings and glowing employee testimonials a dictator of renowned plots his conquest of the civilised world. Between the sun lamps, Catholics […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Les Enfants du Sang’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Preacher season 3… There is much to be said for killing a man with body weight alone. Like some grotesque caricature of Mr. Creosote from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, this gargantuan religious leader is part Jabba The Hutt, part Fat Bastard and one hundred percent inflammatory metaphor. […]
Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Box’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Castle Rock… Any programme that can comfortably incorporate early experimental Tom Waits and mainstream Roy Orbison alongside a hail of bullets must be worth watching. Imbued with a solid sense of self like all great works of fiction Castle Rock continues its unfettered run into darkness. Middle Eastern […]
Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Habeas Corpus’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Castle Rock… Conviction and the power of belief is a dangerous thing. Suicide attempts, softly spoken sons of hell fire and social anxiety shut-ins are par for the course. There is a stagnating malaise which permeates this fictional place and weighs heavy on everyone. More murder mystery and […]
Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Severance’
Martin Carr reviews the series premiere of Castle Rock… With both Stephen King and producer J.J. Abrams steering the ship of Castle Rock there was much to be hopeful for when it finally landed. Drawing from a literary career and mine of characters which shows no sign abating, Castle Rock takes King’s cannon and cherry […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 5 Review – The Coffin
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Preacher season 3… Soft shoe shuffling Lords Almighty complete with boss eyes, bad teeth and incoherent mumblings compete for screen time opposite obese potentates and John Wayne spirit animals. Black and white hallucinations, Monty Python references and grave side confetti litter this forty minutes of abstract television mixing […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Tombs’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Preacher season 3… Choke chained cannon fodder for the overly enthusiastic fist fighting farm hand awaits anyone who fails to pay their debts in Angelville. Welcomed in by the boyish charms of a teenage ringmaster who watched too much Something Wicked This Way Comes, episode four delivers nut […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Gonna Hurt’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Preacher season 3… Down in the darkness they run an unlicensed fight club with a difference. Donning his trademark top hat all battered, burnished and soiled with the souls of those long passed, Jesse Custer beckons you in. Participants are chained, malnourished, consigned to purgatory and looking for […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Sonsabitches’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Preacher season 3… Extracting a soul appears to be easy involving wheels, levers and foot pumps coupled with numerous lengths of rubber tubing and eager operatives in tow to hold down poor unfortunates. Throw in the needles, screaming, unsterilized insertion of blunt metals through paper-thin skin and you […]
