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Gotham Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Follow the White Rabbit’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Gotham season 3…Let’s take a few moments to admire the film references present and correct within Gotham this week. First we have The Matrix which I am not even going to explain because it gives me no pleasure in pointing out the obvious. Secondly however we have Speed, […]

The Strain Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘White Light’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Strain season 3…Slowly strands are beginning to intertwine as flashbacks become more familiar, interactions more fraught and family ties are severed in a search for closure. The Strain has become what few thought possible, morphing as it has into an allegorical testament to some of our most […]

Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special Review

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Martin Carr reviews the Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special…There is something distinctly old school about this feature film length Scream special which is reassuring, run of the mill but nonetheless engaging stuff. Acting as a bridge between seasons two and three, this here is proper haunted house, isolated island cliché with lashings of home […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘New Day Rising’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Gotham season 3…There is a pervading darkness which constitutes the beating heart of this season’s Gotham. It may be tag lined ‘Mad City’, but you need some truly off the chain inhabitants for that to really ring true. In Benedict Samuel’s Hatter we have one amongst many. With […]

Supergirl Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Last Children of Krypton’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Supergirl season 2…Unfortunately episode two of season two is copybook stuff. After that barnstormer however anything was likely to feel like an anti-climax, but somehow I expected more than this. Not there is anything particularly bad about ‘The Last Children of Krypton’, just that they give us nothing […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Anything For You’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Gotham season 3…Gotham’s web is spreading wider. If ‘Rise of the Villains’ foreshadowed, gave cohesion and made Gotham a viable viewing proposition, then ‘Mad City’ is shaping up to be the perfect companion piece. There appears to be no episodic structure rather a meandering combination of plot lines […]

The Strain Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘Collaborators’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Strain season 3…We have come full circle this week with The Strain. There are family connections, moments of regret and a sense of interrelation between characters which somehow ties things together. Hot topics are raised, dissected and discussed within the context of ‘Collaborators’, whilst a sense of […]

Supergirl Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Adventures of Supergirl’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Supergirl season 2…Casting is key in any programme and Supergirl had one big choice to make if this new season was going to work. In Tyler Hoechlin they seem to have found a perfect fit for that Clark Kent backslash Superman persona. Modelled as ever on Christopher Reeve, […]

The Strain Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Battle For Central Park’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of The Strain season 3…This plays out like an extended section of the Cameron classic Aliens. Dark tunnels, pitch black caverns filled with twitching bodies and small factions of mercenaries poorly equipped for carnage. There are the occasional diversions into the daylight which primarily involve people looking concerned, but […]