Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Mr. Mercedes… Flashbacks of childhood trauma, alternative methods of getting over migraines and a plethora of unbalanced individuals makes up Mr. Mercedes again this week. As each episode goes by it becomes more apparent that no one here is completely squeaky clean. Brady leans on Hodges, widower Ida […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 6 Review – ‘Tainted Love’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of The Strain season 4… Lovelorn, love lost, love squandered and relationships shattered define episode six of this final season mid-point. Cat and mouse car chases across country with trigger happy snipers on guard, stand between salvation and disaster in the shape of an airfield exit. Throw in some […]
The Mist Season 1 Finale Review – ‘The Tenth Meal’
Martin Carr reviews the season one finale of The Mist… Like sacrificial lambs to the slaughter people are queuing up to condemn, chastise and belittle from behind a wall of bodies. Self-preservation is paramount for all concerned with little need for small things like the truth. Those who are cast out are undeserving in the […]
Preacher Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘Puzzle Piece’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Preacher season 2… Just when you thought Preacher had taken things as far as possible they go ahead and redefine the line. Pip Torren’s Herr Starr is fundamental in making this happen with a combination of aridly dry wit, sexually gratuitous demands and an aloof air of resignation […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘On Your Mark’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Mr. Mercedes… For those expecting concise characterisation, clear structure and narrative clarify with Mr. Mercedes be warned this takes a little longer than most. It plays out like an elongated episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Cracker without the chain-smoking, alcohol addled central protagonist. There are no failing marriages, awkward family […]
The Mist Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Waking Dream’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of The Mist… There is only so often the mad bag lady with a Messiah complex can jettison her followers before things get bland. Only so many times the arse covering hypocrites can pass that buck onto an innocent before it gets mundane. We are reaching our limit out […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Belly of the Beast’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Strain season 4… Solid character scenes, period drama flashbacks and a moment or two of hard-core hand to hand atop moving vehicles, make this mid-season waypoint one of the best thus far. Moody camera colourisation and moments of a blossoming relationship in Edwardian London, hark back to […]
Preacher Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Holes’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Preacher season 2… Theological questions of immortality, questionable plastering skills and moments in Hell make up Preacher this week. Power issues in the afterlife are addressed, goodness is punished in short order, while megalomaniac bonding sessions never felt creepier. Surreal fireside television torture, voice distortion and a film noir, cabin […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Mr. Mercedes… Given the luxury of an hour to bed in David E Kelley’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes takes its time. Introducing us to this world with a gruesome front and centre crime of indiscriminate motive and R rated lashings of claret. Never constrained by network […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘New Horizons’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of The Strain season 4… Real menace can take any form. Understated, cold and calculating, supremely manipulative and smugly conceited are just a few traits which Richard Sammel has mastered. His theatricality in front of a make-up mirror, face offs against David Bradley’s Setrakian or subserviently grovelling before his […]
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